Pang-Ling Chou

Pang-ling Chou studied English at both the Tamkang University, Tamsui District, New Taipei City, Taiwan and the National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan. In 1982, she came to the United States and studied at the University of Georgia, Athens, where she received a master’s degree in drama in 1985 and an M.F.A. in 1987. Pang-ling’s work has been exhibited at Craft Alliance in St. Louis, MO; the QCC Gallery in Bayside, NY; and the Lamar Dodd Art Center in LaGrange, GA. She has been awarded prizes in Artquest 1 88 in Louisiana and The Emerald City Classic in Wichita, Kansas. For Pang-ling, the Arts/Industry program “provided wonderfully challenging freedom and facilities.” Before her residency, the main body of her ceramic work had been a series of raku Vessel Paradoxes that combined clay and found objects. At Kohler, she developed her Portable Theaters series which blended her longtime interest in theatrical settings and human interrelationships with the new-found materials. This new work was refreshing and challenging and enabled her to make use of whatever whimsical and narrative concepts occurred to her in the factory environment. After her residency at Arts/Industry, Pang-ling went to the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, and later returned home to Taiwan.