World Peace Art Exhibit by Helen Zhang at Great Neck Library

In celebration of the Lunar New Year, come and stop by the Great Neck Library at 159 Bayview Avenue, Great Neck, from February 2-26 to view the World Peace Art Exhibit by artist Helen Zhang.

Helen Zhang (张彤卫) was born in Jinan, China, in 1968. She grew up in a family of artists. Under the influence and nurturing of her artist father, she began learning calligraphy and painting at the age of five. She majored in fine arts at Jinan University and later pursued further studies at the China Academy of Art. In the 1990s, she studied visual arts at Long Island University and New York University. In 2016, her color pastel painting “Bai Cai” (symbolizing “hundred fortunes”) won the Gold Medal Award from the well-known American Audubon Artists Association.

For over twenty years, she has been teaching students from impoverished families in the United States both the technical skills and theoretical knowledge of East and West art. Many of her students have gone on to attend their ideal universities.

She is also the first Chinese painter to have the Chinese classical art form of Peking Opera masks and the Chinese national treasure, the giant panda, designed into postage stamps. These stamps were later published in a stamp book by the United States Postal Service. Every year, she advocates for and promotes the importance of world peace and humanity through various art exhibitions, including the “World Peace Art Tour Exhibition.”

For more information regarding the art exhibit, please call the Great Neck Library at (516) 466-8055.