What the Butterfly Dragon Taught Me: Dimensional Stories in Paper

October 1, 2021 – December 11, 2021
Center for Book Arts

28 West 27th St.
3rd Floor
New York, NY

Image of What the Butterfly Dragon Taught Me: Dimensional Stories in Paper
Image courtesy of the event organizer.

Image courtesy of the event organizer.

Artist and CBA 2021 Faculty Fellow Colette Fu has been making stories in the pop-up book format for almost 2 decades.

Fu’s new works presented in What the Butterfly Dragon Taught Me: Dimensional Stories in Paper, are a continuation of We Are Tiger Dragon People – her ongoing series of photo-based pop-up books about the ethnicities of China. These new works include stories of the Miao, Dulong, Mongolian, Han, and Yi, created during quarantine.

Join CBA 2021 Faculty Fellow Colette Fu for a virtual tour of her exhibition, What the Butterfly Dragon Taught Me, Dimensional Stories in Paper on Oct 15 6:30pm. Pre-registration is required.

For the tour, Fu will discuss the individual stories of each work as well speaking to the overall series they are part of – We Are Tiger Dragon People.