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Our aim is to discover and promote excellent art practitioners. We encourage art pertaining to one’s own existence and life experience, distinguished by creativity and poetic quality. We would like to choose 30 persons each year to participate in our residency program, which runs from April to October. We don’t restrict the age, education, district and race. It is required that you should be the creator of the paintings, sculptures, architecture designs or other art forms which you submit. This fact is affirmed by no less than three committee members of Shangyuan Art Scene.

We provide the chance of 7 months residency program from April to early November in Beijing.

Among the resident artists, including artists from previous programs, we will select 8 to 10 to join the winter residency program in Sanya, Hainan. They will spend 5 month here ,

from November 1st to April 1st of next year, to create art and make deep connection to the region.

The fist step of application is to recommend oneself or be recommended by others. You should present your personal resume and the application for joining the program; meanwhile you should send us ten works as computer files. After confirmation by the committee of Shangyuan Art Scene, we will offer you free spaces to create, live and exhibit for seven months. After these seven months, we will organize a symposium which will also include exhibition, publication and criticism on your work.

（一）、申请方式：推荐和自荐（任何个人，年龄、学历、国家地区与民族均不限）

Application method: recommendation and self-recommendation (any individual, regardless of age, education, country, region and ethnicity)

(1) 推荐：所有上苑艺术馆艺术委员会的成员可以推荐二人进入候选；

Recommendation: All members of the art committee of Shangyuan Art Museum can recommend two people to be candidates;

(2) 自荐：自荐者可直接将相关申报材料送达上苑艺术馆办公邮箱：ssyuan@126.com。

Self-recommendation: Self-recommendations can directly send relevant application materials to Shangyuan Art Museum’s office email address: shangyuanart@gmail.com.

（四）、公布名单时间：第二年1月公布第一批。第二年3月补充审核并公布第二批。

Time for announcing the list: The first batch will be announced in January of the next year. In March of the following year, a supplementary review will be conducted and the second batch will be announced.

（六）提交文件：申请人须向上苑艺术委员会先用电子邮件方式（ssyuan@126.com）提交以下文件：

Submit documents: Applicants must first submit the following documents to Shangyuan Art Committee by email（shangyuanart@gmail.com):

A、平面视觉作品电子图片十张（jpg格式，图片名称中注明材质、名称、尺寸、时间）；视屏作品、音乐作品发网络连接；文字作品发纯文本或word格式……用压缩包发电子邮件；

Ten electronic pictures of two-dimensional visual works (in jpg format, please indicate the material, name, size, and time in the picture name); video works and musical works shall be sent to the Internet; written works shall be sent in plain text or word format... and sent in a compressed package e-mail;

The Great Wall, near the art museum, is where the artists love to go. Photography - Dora-Lutz- (Hungary)

A Brief Introduction To Beijing Shangyuan Art Scene

Categories: Art Scene (Art Museum, exhibition hall, Literature Museum, library)

Telephone Number: 010-60635299/60635757

Fax: 010-60635299

Website: www.syartmuseum.com

E-mail: ssyuan@126.com

Permanent Secretary: Cheng Xiaobei

Some Chinese poets and critics speak of Shangyuan Art Scene as a utopia of art, which is to say that in a standardized, uniform society, Shangyuan Art Scene is searches for a certain kind of difference, whereby each individual, each creative self, every creative living entity is honored for the way in which they seek their value and meaning of life.

This utopia of art is the achievement of poet Cheng Xiaobei and a group of artists, poets, writers and architects. Beginning in 2000, they raised funds for themselves and searched for a suitable location north of Beijing, at the foot of the Yan mountains. After 7 years spent in site-selection, organizing, planning, and actual construction, the first stage of this modern architectural complex, with over 19,700 square meters of total floorage on 30,000 square meters of land was finished in late 2007. This complex, comprising 21 works of original modern architecture, includes a salon space, library, exhibition hall, open-air platform (from which you can see Yan mountains), video room, Liang Sicheng Memorial Exhibit Hall, cafe, writers’ apartments, artists’ studios, etc.

The Purpose of Shangyuan Art Scene:

1. Organizing communication among different art fields: To recover the tradition of Chinese intellectuals in which regular communication was held among poets, printers, calligraphers and musicians. We want to improve the situation in present China in which artists are addicted to their own art fields and often have little communication with people from other art areas.

2. Operating a Residency Program: To outstanding artists from different fields we offer free studio and apartments with peaceful and pure surroundings for their creative activity.

The Principle of Shangyuan Art Scene:

We encourage and promote art which 1) is done in an independent creative spirit, 2) possesses characteristics of creativity and poetic language, 3) relates to the artist’s ‘present’ existence, 4) is stimulated by the artist’s genuine life experience. We emphasize mutual encouragement and cooperation among artists from various art fields; we also attach importance to helping and supporting the growth of young artists.

Shangyuan Art Scene / The ‘Uninterrupted Art’ Support Program:

1. Residency Program: Outstanding artists are selected from various art fields—painting, architecture, literature and poetry, music, performance and film—and provided with a studio and apartment. At the same time, Shangyuan Art Scene has established a ‘Shangyuan art criticism’ writers’ group, who have an opportunity to develop along with the artists.

2. Exchange Program for Art Teachers: This will give art teachers with creative aspirations a place to show their works and get stimulation. They can strike creative sparks by interacting with other artists at Shangyuan Art Scene, with its fertile gathering of musicians, poets, critics, painters and film makers. By expanding our horizons, stimulating our senses, and allowing introspection, we can mutually raise our level of understanding; at the same time, we will have a chance to exhibit excellent art works by teachers of art.

Note: The purpose of this program is to raise aesthetic awareness and prevent lack of aesthetic knowledge in the future; we want to instill aesthetic awareness and ability to gauge aesthetic value.

3. Support Program: Shangyuan Art Scene wants to help outstanding artists, for as long as they are in residence, to carry out continuous development of their art concepts, to tap the deep reserves needed to create serial works, and to keep exploring their artistic path. Our atmosphere of ongoing interdisciplinary exchanges can help them actualize a genuine qualitative leap.

4. Organizing and Facilitating Worldwide Art Activities: Creative Projects, Academic Exchanges, Thematic Dialogues, Exhibitions and Displays, Discussion of Works, Concerts, Poetry Readings, visual and auditory intersections, etc.

Shangyuan Art Scene is the only museum in the current world that: 1) raises nongovernment funds to operate ongoing art activities; 2) promotes the individuation and beautification of modern Chinese architecture, to give architecture a sense of effectiveness in present reality and a sense of vestige in history; 3) helps young artists at a time when they most need a helping hand...

In a modern world that is lost in fame and wealth, this is peaceful place is where our souls can have a rest.

Restaurant

Music and poetry Evening party

Application Form

Name :

Nationality :

Passport No. :

Telephone No. :

Date of Application : (DD/MM/YYYY)

Applicant	Name	Sex	Your Photograph One
	Birthday	Nationality
	Graduated from	Post code
	Location
	Address
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Work Experience	:
Include with application: List of works submitted with specifications

Views from Evaluation Group: Mailing Address：北京市昌平区上苑艺术村-上苑艺术馆程小蓓收 Post Code:：102212 Telephone/Fax：86-10-60635757、60635299

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