A lecture on Chinese ink and wash painting was held on Sunday in Beijing, teaching children how to convey good wishes for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics via traditional Chinese painting. More than 20 children age 7 to 14 from member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) attended the class. Many are students at the Research Center of Children’s Artworks, part of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The lecture was also accompanied by an online session attended by eight children from the Shihezi Kindergarten in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The exhibition called for submissions earlier this month. Selected paintings will be sent to the secretariat of SCO’s Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation Commission on December 28 and will be assembled into a long scroll to be displayed online in January. (China Daily) | 