This exhibition displays the brush calligraphy of members of the Clarkston Community Center's Senior Refugee Program's English class and the members of a freshman seminar class at Emory University. For two months, the Emory freshman seminar class has come to visit the students of the Senior Refugee Classes (taught by Sheilah Bowser and Teresa Hatton) to chat in English and share the fun of writing with a brush.

The exhibition's title, "Clearly Manifesting Luminous Virtue," is a phrase from one of the freshman class's textbooks, The Greater Learning (Chinese, Daxue). The Greater Learning explains that people should try fulfill their potential for goodness by study and practicing the arts, including calligraphy. By improving themselves, they support their families. By supporting families, they create community. By creating community, they bring peace to all under heaven.

Towards a strong community and peace under heaven,

C A Crowley
Associate Professor of Japanese
Emory University

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Thanks to all at the Clarkston Community Center, to Emory's Center for Community Partnerships, Emory East Asian Studies Program, and Emory Confucius Institute. Special thanks to McKenzie Wren and Julie Darby.

December 7 - 31, 2012

Clarkston Community Center

3701 College Avenue, Clarkston, GA 30021

(404) 508-1050