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    Community outreach

   a part I take & give, a part they receive & offer
   a constant reminder of others' equally important coexistance

Lorane Elementary School Puppetry Workshop 2005

• Project funded by Oregon Historical Society-Folklife Program
• age group: 5-11 # of participants: 57

Lynch View Elementary School Puppetry Workshop 2005

• Project funded by RACC-SUN program
• age group: 9-11 # of participants: 14

Children Museum Puppetry Workshops 2001

• Project funded by RACC
• age group: 3-15 # of participants: 120

Art Residencies & workshops:
- Portland Parks & Recreation: art activities at summer concert events (2003-2007)
- Department of Community Justice - Juvenile Services Division, hands-on art activities (2007)
- Refugee Dreams Revisited art workshops @ Parkrose High School & Asian Family Center, Portland OR (2005)
- Lynch View Elementary School art workshops, Portland OR (2005)
- SAFES Crime Victim Survivors' Art workshops , Portland OR (2004)
- Camp Fire USA 2 days workshops, Clackamas OR (2004)
- MediaRites Breast Cancer Radio Arts Project, Portland OR (2003)
- P:ear - Center for Homeless Youth, Portland OR (2002, 2003)
- Salvation Army-The Green House, Portland OR (2001)
- Dept. of Juvenile & Adult Community Justice Manucha Women Leadership Camp, OR (2000)
- Year long teachers-in-training at Binnsmead Middle School, Portland OR (1999, 2000, 2001)
- Gresham Parks & Recreations-Arts in the Park, Gresham OR (1999, 2000)
- Roosevelt High School Summer Theatre Camp, Portland OR (2000)
- Portland Impact, SE Multicultural Center-MediaRites Summer Media Camp, Portland OR (2000)
- Morrison Center-Youth Enhancement Center, Portland OR (2000)
- N. Portland Blazers Boys and Girls Club, Portland OR (2000, 2001)
- Rose Schnitzer Manor-Independent Retirement Home Center, Beaverton OR (2000)
- Eastwind Community Center Tile Mosaic Project, Gresham OR (2000)
- Columbia Villa/Tamarack Community Youth Advancement Consortium, Portland OR (1999)
- Buckman House (Janus Youth Program), Portland OR (1999)
- Asian Pacific American Consortium on Drugs Abuse (APACSA) Day Camp, Portland OR (1999)
- Troutdale Elementary School, Woodland Elementary School, Troutdale OR (1999)
- Grace Memorial Institute Summer Camp, Portland OR (1998)
- Springleaf Chinese Language School, Tigard OR (1998)
- "Get A Start" program at MacLaren Correctional Facilities, Woodburn OR (1998)
- Binnsmead Middle School, Portland OR (1997, 1998)
- Portland Impact, Portland OR (1997, 1998)
- N. Tillamook Parks & Rec., Portland OR (1993, 1994)
- N. Portland Blazer Boys & Girls Club, Portland OR (1993)
- Portland Art Museum Family Sunday, Portland OR (1992-1993)

Community Art Projects:
- Harmos, the human flag project, community art based performance, Portland OR (2007)
- Nellie Muir Elementary School library puzzle painting project, Woodburn OR (2007) 
- Forest Grove Library Drop Box painting Project, Forest Grove OR (2002)
- Portsmouth Vision Street Banner Project, N. Portland OR (2001)
- "Gresham Banner Project" at Gresham Main City Park, Gresham OR (2000)
- "The Oral History Project" at Southeast Multicultural Center (1999)
- "The Maiden Pearl" Chinese Puppetry, co-produced & performed at IFCC (1999)
- Clinton Street Alternative School, Portland OR (1998)
- Chinese Service Center-APACSA (1998)
- Asian Family Center-Oregon Folklife Program (1997)
- Penang and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1984-1990)

Puppetry and Mask-making Workshops:
- Fairview Library puppetry workshop, Fairview OR (2007)
- Hall Elementary School puppetry workshops, Troutdale OR (2005)
- McKinney Elementary School, Forest Grove OR (2005)
- Counter Point, Morrison Center Troutdale Children and Family Services, Troutdale OR (2005)
- Lorane Elementary School, one week residency, Lorane OR (2005)
- Washington/Nellie Muir/Heritage Elementary & French Prairie Middle School, Woodburn OR (2005)
- Holgate Library, Portland OR (2005)
- George Middle School mask-making project, Portland OR (2002)
- Year long puppetry and mask-making workshop at Woodstock Elemantary School, Portland OR (2000-2001)
- Children Museum Puppetry Workshops, Portland OR (2001)
- APACSA-Portland Impact Summer Camp, Portland OR (2000)
- Malaysian shadow puppet workshop at Vose Elementary School, Portland OR (2000-2001)
- N. Portland Blazers Boys and Girls Club, Portland OR (2000)
- North Portland YWCA, Portland OR (1999)
- Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland OR (1999)
- St. Andrew Church (N. Portland) , St. Patrick Church (N. Portland), Portland OR (1999)
- House of Umoja, Portland OR (1999)
- Atkinson Elementary School, Portland OR (1999)

Education:

2000 Three days Conflict Resolution Training-The Art of Peace Making, (RACC) Portland OR
1997- 99 Two years apprenticeship program in traditional Chinese rod puppetry with Chinese puppet master WANG YUQIN (Oregon Historical Society Apprenticeship program)
1993 BFA, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland Oregon
1990 Fine arts, Malaysian Institute of Art, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
1987 Diploma in business accounting, Perkim Goon Institute, School of Business, Penang Malaysia
1977-88 Master Tan Chang Keong, watercolor & graphic design, Penang Malaysia

Oregon Regional Arts and Cultural Council (RACC) - Neighborhood Arts Program rostered artist (1995-present)
MediaRites Productions, board member (1999-present), Crossing East series - graphic & outreach (04-06) 
Asian American Business Alliance Committee (AABA), event chair (2005-2007)
Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (IFCC), Program Committee (2007)

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