Art Is Messy

Chinese New Year in Shanghai has been blissful. The streets have been eerily quiet, except of course, for the nightly firework assaults. A large proportion of the city’s inhabitants have left town to visit their families all throughout China.

Getting out of town during the holiday seemed like a great idea to me as well. A group of teachers from SAS piled into a van and headed out of town to the Jinshan Peasant Painter village. The town is just over an hour outside of Shanghai. Because we we went there on New Year’s day, the entire village was free of tourists. Many of the studios were closed, but those that were open had more than enough beautiful art to keep us oohing and ahhing for hours. If you ever make it to Shanghai, this village is one spot not to be missed.