Coral Dictionary: An Artist Talk by Chang Yuchen

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Location: Annenberg Auditorium (View on map )

Young woman in a sheer black top with red floral embroidery looks forward. Next to her, a desk shows a paper with detailed pencil drawings and small organic objects, plus pencils and a ruler.

Join the Notre Dame Arts Initiative, Creative Writing Program, Dynamic Translation Lab, and Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good for Coral Dictionary, a public talk with artist Chang Yuchen. Coral Dictionary, an artwork by the same title, is a nature-informed writing system developed by the artist.

Chang Yuchen works in an interdisciplinary manner - writing as weaving, drawing as translation, teaching as hospitality, commerce as social experiment and publishing as a dandelion spreading its seeds. Yuchen is also an advocate for the art of her mother, Jin Mei. Yuchen was a recipient of New York Public Library Picture Collection Artist Fellowship, Queens Art Fund New Work Grant, Poetry Project Curatorial Fellowship, Huayu Youth Award, Luminarts Fellowship, etc. She has shown/performed her work at Walker Art Center, Beijing Commune, By Art Matter, Carnegie Museum of Art, Amant, Artists Space, UCCA Dune, Para Site, Taikwun Contemporary. She was an artist in residence at Smack Mellon, Asymmetry Art Foundation, MASS MoCA, Museum of Art and Design, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Yuchen has written for publications including Heichi Magazine, Press and Fold, Art in Print, and Randian.

Location & Parking 

The talk will take place in the Annenberg Auditorium at the Snite Research Center. The nearest parking is in the Stadium Lot (south of the Notre Dame Football Stadium). Campus parking is free of charge after 4:00 p.m. Monday - Friday.

Co-Sponsors:

  • Arts Initiative
  • Creative Writing Program
  • Dynamic Translation Lab
  • Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good

Originally published at english.nd.edu.