Mahjong Tea Party-Tea and Family Mahjong and Collapsible Lantern Demo

Class: Mahjong Tea Party-Tea and Family Mahjong and Collapsible Lantern Demo

Instructor: Anika Hsiung Schneider When:  Saturday, April 27, 2024, 1-5pm

Party-goers will enjoy Chinese tea and learn how to play mahjong with Anika's handmade tile sets. Mahjong with a fun twist, depending on what Anika's grandma allows! What grandma says goes! This event will include a demo of building a collapsible Chinese lantern from 4 pm to 5 pm.

Anika Hsiung Schneider is a narrative artist who draws on lived experiences, memories, and family history. With an Asian Mixed female identity, she resides in a highly racialized body that also exists in a liminal state. This connection to a liminal state of being closely connects her work to themes of loss, transitional spaces, and visualizing the intangible. Anika received her MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD). She serves as the Director of Exhibitions and Artist Programs at Minnesota Center for Book Arts and adjunct faculty at MCAD. Anika’s work has been exhibited nationally at galleries such as Soo Visual Arts Center, Rosalux Gallery, Gallery B St Paul, Circle Gallery, Visarts, Dumbarton Concert Gallery, and Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture. Anika has also participated in residencies in Wolfsville, Nova Scotia, and Solomons Island, Maryland. She has also been awarded a Windgate University Fellowship, Gettysburg College Provost Grant, and the InCahoots residency Boost Prize full grant.

"Anika Schneider is a fiscal year 2023 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund."