Heart Sutra Collectives with Ines Sun

(All ages are welcome! ) 2-4 pm

Everyone can write and can find peace and calm from calligraphy writing. Write and copy the Heart Sutra in Chinese Calligraphy style with Ines Sun. The partially copied sutras from NYC will be completed in a silk tea hut, which will later be installed at the Hoshino Ceramic Museum, Japan.

ABOUT

Ines Sun was born and raised in Taiwan with a strong Chinese heritage. She grew up with Chinese brush paintings of flowers and birds surrounding the household, and her grandfather practiced Chinese calligraphy. Later, her father continued the calligraphy practice after her grandfather passed away. Sun has followed the tradition and made her calligraphy a part of her art practice.

Sun came to New York City for her Master's Degree at NYU in 1992 and enrolled at the Art Students League of New York for Oil Painting in 1995. Later she went to the Chinese Academy of Art to study Chinese calligraphy and brush painting in 2007.

Before the trip to China, she pioneered tea culture in New York City and ran a successful beloved tea business, Wild Lily Tea Room, in Chelsea for ten years. The New York Times food writer Florence Fabricant first introduced Sun's endeavor and called it "a serene oasis."

Sun has practiced Chanoyu, the Japanese Tea Ceremony. Her diligent pursuit of tea and the experience of hosting tea tastings have inspired the TeaHouse Installation, which first appeared in 2011 at the Dumbo Arts Festivals. Sun has exhibited internationally to advocate Equanimity through the TeaHouse Project. One participant at one time writes calligraphy and drinks tea in silence. The artistically designed tea hut acts as a shelter from the mundane world. In 2020 the TeaHouse joined The Summer Tea at Prospect Park sponsored by Brooklyn Arts Councils during the Pandemic to heal the worst affected in the city. The next engagement is at the Ceramic Museum in Hoshino, Japan, in 2022.

Sun published her autobiography, 5.4 Luck, in Taiwan and exhibited the Lotus oil painting series for the first time in her home country. She works and lives with her family in Brooklyn.

There are free weekly Calligraphy demos, "How the Brush Works," innovative calligraphy classes for all ages, and the Heart Sutra Collectives sessions at the Pencilnyc Studio located in the Lower East Side of NYC.