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Sally Blakemore Keynote Speaker fusansan 48 views Speaking at the 8th Movable Book Society Conference in Portland.
Sally tells a story fusansan 37 views I like to tell a story...
Rubén's Proposal Pop up Book fusansan 4,130 views http://www.colettefu.com. Rubén proposed to Claudia, and she said yes! Check out my other videos and website for new work. Available for commissions and teaching workshops....
Haunted Philadelphia Pop-Up Books fusansan 2,279 views http://www.colettefu.com Series of 10 36x54" pop-up books created while artist-in-residence at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and Robert M MacNamara Foundation. Arc...
Roanoke, VA and Lijiang Sister City Art Scholarship Candidates fusansan 128 views Roanoke,VA/Lijiang Sister City Student Art Scholarship Candidates
Julia and Xia Diving in Bali fusansan 73 views Julia and Xia in Bali.
Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2008 fusansan 127 views At the Landmark Atrium in Hong Kong
Great Grandpa Lung Yun's House fusansan 181 views In Kunming, at the corner of Beijing Lu and Dong Feng Dong Lu. Now a hotel for visiting dignitaries, thus i haven't been inside.
OrixaTempo Inside fusansan 14,561 views tempo ceremony
Orixa Tempo Outside fusansan 18,138 views Candomble for Tempo, Itaparica,

About Colette Fu, Fusansan

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Colette Fu received her MFA in Fine Art Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2003. In 2008 she received a Fulbright Fellowship to photograph the 25 ethnic minorities of her mother's hometown of Yunnan Province, China. She has created most of her work at artist residencies such as the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Instituto Sacatar, Bemis Center, Visual Studies Workshop, the Millay Colony, and the Alden B. Dow Center for Creativity. Colette has received awards from Fulbright, the Independence Foundation, Sovereign Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia Commission for the Arts, Constance Saltonstall Foundation, En Foco, Photographer's Forum, Nikon, the Puffin Foundation and the Society for Photographic Education. She works as a paper engineering consultant for stop animation commercials, freelances and teaches pop-up courses and community workshops at various art centers and institutions.

For the past seven years I have been making one-of-a-kind artist's books that combine my photography with paper engineering. Pop-up and flap books originally illustrated ideas about astronomy, fortune telling, navigation, anatomy of the body and other scientific principles. This history prompted me to construct my own books reflecting ideas on how our selves relate to society today. Initially, the challenge of creating pop-up books, having to construct something that physically would fold down into a confined space helped limit what I could create. Experience and experimentation have forced me to think otherwise; as I problem solve, the paper takes over and leads beyond what I thought was physically possible. My pop-ups are a way for me to speak and inform; the real and implied motion in the pop-ups link to a temporal element, and an inevitable corollary is to awe and unsettle. With pop-up books I want to eliminate the boundaries between book, installation, photography, craft and sculpture.

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Philadelphia

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