We hope that you will join us for Visiting Artist Colette Fu's artist talk, a part of the 2024-25 Longwood Visiting Artist Series. The artist talk will be on Thursday, April 10 at 4 pm in Bedford 111.

Bio: Philadelphia-based artist Colette Fu 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 part of esteemed collections, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Getty Research Institute, the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and many private and rare archive collections. Fu has received numerous awards, including a Philadelphia Cultural Treasures grant, a Forman Arts Initiative Artworks Grant, a Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Fellowship, the Meggendorfer Prize, and a Fulbright Research Fellowship to China. In addition to her artistic practice, she teaches pop-up courses and conducts community workshops internationally.

A triptych of three intricate egg-shaped sculptures with open circular fronts, each revealing a layered scene inside. The first sculpture on the left features a vivid photo collage of people in traditional attire surrounded by red rose petals. The middle sculpture glows warmly from within, filled with delicate white cutout shapes of flowers and butterflies. The third sculpture on the right shows a