About the Art Tour
Join us on a fun day trip to the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum. Relaxing round trip transportation provided by deluxe motor coach from the Fitzgerald Brothers.
Come along with MAG Director, Sarah Jesse as we experience an exciting tour of the exhibition Constructing Radiance: Sculpture by Li Hongwei. Led by the museum's Director, Wayne Higby alongside talented artist Li Hongwei. We'll enjoy lunch together and explore other fascinating sites on campus. Snacks provided on the return trip to MAG. We hope you can join us for this special opportunity! Limited capacity- register soon!
About the Artist/Speaker
Li Hongwei (b.1980) is a contemporary artist. He works and lives in Beijing and New York. His works have been acquired by The British Museum, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Israel Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Philadelphia Museum of Art. His works have been exhibited in a number of international art institutions, including the National Art Museum of China, The US Embassy, The New Mexico Museum of Art, The Fox Art Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Dublin Castle, Ireland.
Li Hongwei is celebrated in China and here in the US as well as internationally. Li is known for his artistic, conceptual and technical fusion of the past and present in innovative work with classical Chinese ceramics and the tenets of western modernism-postmodernism. He established an astonishing approach to contemporary sculpture with his Upwelling Gravity series. Tao Wang Curator of Chinese Art at the Chicago Art Institute speaks to this series as a remarkable meditational allegory of balance achieved in harmony with great skill creating polished steel and ceramic sculpture that has never been done before.
Li Hongwei holds a bachelor’s degree in sculpture from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and a Master of Fine Arts degree in ceramic art, 2007, from the New York State College of Ceramics at the Alfred University, Alfred, NY.
Registration Details
For questions about this Art Tour, please contact the MAG Council at magcouncil@mag.rochester.edu or 585.276.8910. Registration ends on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at 11:30 pm. Meet at the Memorial Art Gallery at 8:30 am. Bus departs at 9 am.
Please be sure to select your lunch option which will be provided in the confirmation email after ticket purchase.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing your receipt. For general visitor information, visit mag.rochester.edu/visit.
Our ART LOVER’S tours are organized and sponsored by the MAG Council to benefit MAG and are open to all interested travelers.
In the event that the MAG Council needs to cancel your ticket, we will attempt to contact you by email. We advise all visitors to check our website before visiting. View the MAG Council’s refund policy here.