During his visit, he led a roundtable with Ceramics students and faculty. He’s crazy busy, but he still spent two days this month meeting with KCAI students and sharing his ideas about life as an artist. He also has 26 pieces in Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, which opened Nov.
In the last month, he’s been featured on CBS This Morning, PBS News Hour, and in the New York Times. Urban potter and social activist Roberto Lugo (’12 Ceramics) is having a moment. NovemRoberto Lugo (‘12 Ceramics) returns to KCAI to inspire students
Professor Stalling accompanied me on a tour of his exhibition during a summer visit to UMKC, and we started collaborating read more… “As I started researching the jueju form, I came across resources from Professor Jonathan Stalling who teaches Chinese literature at University of Oklahoma and also happened to have an exhibition called the Poetics of Invention at UMKC’s Miller Nichols Library that addressed jueju literary composition, printmaking and translation. “During the pandemic, I turned to composing classical jueju poetry in English as a form of self-reflection and cultivating a sense of inner-peace,” Lim-Midyett said. Stalling visited her class in order to workshop the poems. Students in Professor Lim-Midyett’s class crafted English jueju poems following the guidelines of 5 or 7 syllable quatrains which adhere to an AABA rhyme scheme.
Jueju poetry is the Chinese cousin of the more familiar Japanese Haiku that originated during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.) The ancient artform is experiencing a revival led by Professor Jonathan Stalling of the University of Oklahoma who is working to adapt the traditional form to English for American culture. NovemEnglish Jueju Poetry and Chinese PrintmakingĪssistant Professor Eleanor Lim-Midyett is bringing a contemporary take on a traditional Chinese compositional technique to her Modern Chinese Narratives class.
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