Chinese born and Lawrence, Kansas-based artist Hong Chun Zhang will talk about her art education and studio practice from China to her adopted home in America over the past two decades. She will also discuss the time-consuming making process of traditional Chinese fine-style ink painting that she studied at Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts and later incorporated into her large "Hair" work developed in the United States.

She has shown her work extensively across the United States and internationally, including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Contemporary Museum of Art Norway, Oslo, China National Art Museum, Beijing, and Milan Royal Palace in Italy. Zhang’s 2009 drawing Twister was acquired for the Ulrich collection in 2010 and will be on view during the month of November.