2012
Minnesota Ballet Wine & Chee's Event
Location:
The Historic Union Depot
506 W. Michigan St.,
Duluth, Minnesota, 55802, United States
PHONE: 218-733-7590
Website:
Phone: (218) 529-3742
Date & Time:
Apr 26, 2012 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
This is a great chance to sample wines, nibble on hors d'oeuvres provided by some of the area's finest restaurants and bid on all sorts of items featuring giclée prints by noted watercolorist Cheng-Khee Chee, who will be on hand for signing. Proceeds benefit the Minnesota Ballet. $30 in advance/$35 at the door.
The DSSO Pre-Old Turtle Concert Family Day Event
The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra and Duluth Children's Museum held a pre-Old Turtle Concert Family Day Activities Event for children and their parents at the Great Hall of the historic Union Depot in Duluth. The event included hand on art and craft projects, Old Turtle book reading, and Cheng-Khee Chee signing books, and painting with children. The Old Turtle Concert will be held on Saturday March 31 at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center.
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2011
L'Art de L'Aquarelle
Cheng-Khee was featured in L'Art de L'Aquarelle, a French Watercolor Magazine The Art of Watercolor issue No. 8, March-May, 2011, Page 18-23 and Page 84-85. Six pages of the article deal with his saturated wet process for capturing the movement of koi and other fish. The other two pages deal with the method of turning failed paintings into successful ones.
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The Return of Old Turtle
The Duluth-Superior Symphony and Minnesota Ballet are returning the joint performance of Old Turtle to the 2011/2012 Season. In conjunction with this special program The Return of Old Turtle, the original illustrations and studies by Cheng-Khee were exhibited at the North Shore Bank of Commerce in Downtown, Duluth from April 7 through June 24.
The Culture Tour Of Turkey, Bulgaria, Malta And Sicily
April 18 - May 3, 2011 Cheng-Khee and Sing-Bee joined the Cultural Tour of Turkey, Bulgaria, Sicily and Malta. The Education and Research Foundation of Nanyang University Alumni Association organized the tour.
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The Minnesota Arrowhead Regional Arts Council George Morrison Artist Award
Cheng-Khee was honored with the George Morrison artist Award in recognition of his international contributions to the art of watermedia painting, blending East and West within the essence of Tao and over a lifetime of teaching. The award was presented at the Lyric Center for the Arts in Virginia, MN on June 3, 2011.
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TWSA Celebration of Watercolor
The Transparent watercolor Society of America held its 35th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Kenosha Public Museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, May 7-July 31. June 18 was the day for Annual Celebration of Watercolor. It included painting demonstration by Eric Weigardt, reception, and awards dinner.
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Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition
Cheng-Khee served as Juror of Selection and Awards for the 2011 Annual RMNW Exhibition, conducted a 3-day workshop and gave a public painting demonstration.
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Bridge Magazine
Cheng-Khee was profiled in the fall issue of the University of Minnesota, Duluth Bridge magazine.
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Retrospective Exhibition Of Marine Watercolors by Cheng-Khee Chee
A Retrospective Marine Watercolors by Cheng-Khee Chee, featuring 40 paintings as well as the Old Turtle illustrations, is being held at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum www.minnesotamarineart.org in Winona, Minnesota, October 22, 2011 - January 15, 2012. The show opening was held on Saturday, October 22 at 5:30pm. Cheng-Khee and the Old Turtle author Douglas Wood also teamed up to present a program at the Winona Public Library www.winona.lib.mn.us celebrating Old Turtle on Friday, October 21. Doug read Old Turtle and played music. Cheng-Khee painted Fish in the Ocean with young budding artists. Cheng-Khee also gave a public lecture and demonstration in conjunction with the exhibition on Saturday, October 22 City of Winona. The Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council supported this activity through the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund.
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Celebration of Old Turtle at The Winona Public Library:
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Public Painting Demonstration at the Museum:
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Exhibition Opening:
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Sea History Magazine
Cheng-Khee was featured in the Sea History Magazine Winter 2011-12 issue, page 34-37 in conjunction with his retrospective exhibition at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, October 22, 2011 - January 15, 2012.
2010
The China Tour
Cheng-Khee, Sing-Bee and their daughter Yen-Ying traveled in China between May and June for one month. First, they went to Nanjing to attend the opening ceremony of the “Second Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary International Watermedia Masters” and the “Watermedia Forum”.
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After the show opening, they continued to stay in Nanjing for one week to travel to surrounding cities of Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, and Wuxi.
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From Nanjing they traveled to Suzhou, famous for silk, beautiful gardens and ladies. They shopped for some silk products, visited the Jiangsu Museum designed by I. M. Pei, enjoyed the spectacular gardens, and cruised the scenic canals.
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From Suzhou they traveled to the famous watertowns Tongli and Zhouzhuan, Cheng-Khee’s favorite destinations! Every direction you turned, there was an exciting painting!
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They returned to Shanghai for 5 days to visit the World Expo and exciting sights of the city.
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The Chees spent last week in Cheng-Khee’s birthplace Fengting in Fujian Province. After 12 years, Cheng-Khee could hardly recognize his hometown, as it had transformed into a totally different new city, with 3 new freeways and the high-speed train connecting all major cities. There were new construction projects all over the city and surrounding towns! As for the Chee family, a whole new generation of great grand nephews and nieces were added since his last visit. There was a big family gathering. They also visited the birthplace of Sing-Bee’s parents in Jiangdou, and Province’s major cities of Fuzhou, Qiangzhou and Xiamen.
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Southeast Asia Tour
Cheng-Khee and Sing-Bee spent the month of February in Penang, Malaysia and Singapore to get away from the coldest month in Minnesota. This was their first trip back after five years. Besides visiting relatives and friends, Cheng-Khee went back to his favorite painting sites in Penang. During his high school and college years he spent a great deal of time painting the fishing villages, the harbor, the old sections of town and colorful temples. In Singapore Sing-Bee and Cheng-Khee visited their Alma Mater Nanyang Technological University where they spent four years in the same class.
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Wine and Chee’s Event
The Minnesota Ballet is holding a fund raising event “Wine and Chee’s” at the Duluth Depot Great Hall on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 5:30 – 8 p.m.
The event is sponsored by Keyport Liquor, CPL Imaging and Cheng-Khee and Sing-Bee Chee. For details and tickets visit the Minnesota Ballet website: www.minnesotaballet.org/events/.
The following are two examples of giclee prints for the auction (click to enlarge):
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The Second Invitational Exhibition of
Contemporary International Watermedia Masters
2007 First Exhibition BillboardWith the great success and enormous response to the 2007 first exhibition in China, the Jiangsu Watercolor Research Institute in Nanjing is again inviting 83 artists from19 countries to participate in this second exhibition. Cheng-Khee has been busy thepast few months coordinating 28 artists from the United States, Canada and South America.
2007 First Exhibition Opening Ceremony For the origin of this exhibition check his essay “A Survey of Watermedia Painting in the Past 100 Years” on his website. The opening is scheduled forFriday, May 28 at the exhibition hall of the magnificent ultramodern new Nanjing Library.
2009
The Cultural Tour of Spain, Portugal and Morocco
In May Cheng-Khee and Sing-Bee joined their Alma Mater Nanyang University Alumni Association’s Cultural Tour of Spain, Portugal, and Morocco.
Exhibition Juror
Cheng-Khee served as Juror of selection and awards for the Ohio Watercolor Society and Southwestern Watercolor Society 2009 annual exhibitions.
School of Fine Arts Dean Jack Bowman, Cheng-Khee, Art & Design Dept. Head Jim Klueg
Society of Prometheans
In October the University of Minnesota, Duluth School of Fine Arts honored Cheng-Khee with membership in the Society of Prometheans, recognizing his outstanding artistic accomplishments.
Society of Prometheans Award website
Grandsons Calvin and William Kan received the Award from Watercolor West on behalf of their grandpa
Recent Awards
Cheng-Khee received Gold Award in Georgia Watercolor Society and 2nd Place Awards in the Transparent Watercolor Society of America and the Watercolor West 2009 Annual National Exhibition. He also received 4 other awards.
© 2010 Cheng-Khee Chee