The Mid-Autumn Festival, or Mooncake Festival, is a traditional festival celebrated in Chinese culture – a time when family and friends unite and celebrate. To ring in the occasion, learn to make magic picture cards, aka pop-up cards, while enjoying mooncakes and boba tea with artist Colette Fu. Fu’s large pop-up book, Noodle Mountain, is currently on view in our Slow Motion exhibition.
Colette Fu (b. 1969, Princeton, NJ, she/her) is a Philadelphia-based artist who received her MFA in Fine Art Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2003, and soon after began devising complex compositions that incorporate photography and pop-up paper engineering. Her pop-up books are included in the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, and many private and rare archive collections. Fu’s numerous awards and grants include a Forman Arts Initiative Art Works grant, Philadelphia Cultural Treasures grant, Joan Mitchell Painter’s & Sculptors Fellowship, the Meggendorfer Prize, Leeway Transformation Award, and a Fulbright Research Fellowship to China. She exhibits widely and teaches pop-up courses and community workshops internationally.
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Slow Motion is made possible by generous exhibition support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Brooke Barrie Art Fund, NRG Energy, and Julie and Michael Nachamkin. Support is provided in part by the Atlantic Foundation, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, New Jersey Department of State. Additional generous support is provided by Holman.
