Great to have San Mateo Sheriff Bolanos, community & business leaders visit the Association.

Participating in the Sunday Play Streets in Chinatown

Kevin Chan, President of the Association and a member went to Los Angeles to build bridges. Kevin was invited to make a speech and here it is in Chinese with an English translation to follow.
各位嘉宾、各位兄弟姐妹，大家晚上好！本人非常榮幸能够代表“旧金山金门艺术家协会”出席“大洛杉矶中国统一促进会十五周年志庆”，兼“欧阳韬先生荣升本届会长”！祝贵会在欧阳会长带领之下创造新的辉煌，更上一层楼[Rose]更加希望祖国早日实现统一大业[Rose]

English translation: Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, good evening! I am honored to represent the Golden Gate Artists Association of San Francisco at the 15th Anniversary Celebration of the Great Los Angeles China Unification Association, and to be promoted to the presidency of Mr. Ouyang Tao! May I wish you a new and better life under the leadership of President Ouyang [Rose] More hope for the early reunification of the motherland [Rose]

Kevin also invited the Chinese provincial official to visit #beautiful Chinatown and San Francisco.

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Deng Zhi Quan is a Chinese painting artist, poet, vice president of Golden Gate Artist Association, member of Board of Directors for the Chinese Literature & Art Association in America, and San Francisco resident for the past 23 years.
Deng was born in Dongguan City, China in 1948. From 1976, he received systematic education on Chinese painting. In the 1980s, he started displaying his artwork in exhibits. He had been an art lecturer for 15 years, specializing in freehand flower and bird paintings.
Moving to the United States in the early 1990s opened up many learning opportunities for Deng. He was able to observe Western masterpieces in world famous museums, discuss painting techniques with Chinese artists living in the United States, and experience the natural beauty of flowers and birds in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over time, Deng’s paintings reflected his appreciation of his surrounding and the harmony between human and the environment.
In October 2016, Deng had a popular exhibit in the Shilong Museum in China, showing his works of flowers and birds from the West Coast of the United States.
In March 2017, Deng had a successful exhibit in the San Francisco main library, displaying Chinese painting to a diverse audience.
In addition to painting, Deng is also an outstanding Chinese poet. For over 20 years, as a Chinese immigrant, Deng used poetry to express his feelings; his works are well-received in the overseas traditional poetry writing communities.
Deng’s artwork combines the picturesque representation of traditional Chinese painting with the vision and emotion of a western immigrant, and features a different side of the traditional literati painting.

邓治权，笔名邓治，美国金门艺术家协会副会长，美国华文文艺界协会理事，美国金山诗艺会理事，定居旧金山20多年。
1948年出生于中国广东东莞市，1977年结业于广州美术学院师资班，其后跟随谭铸尧老师，邝声，张祖泰教授等学习绘画多年，1980年代开始美术创作并参加各种展览，曾任职中等专业学校美术讲师多年，1993年，他成为美协广东分会会员和广东教育学会美术书法教育研究会会员。
移居美国后，他继续学习和创作中国画。他常在各类博物馆观摩西方绘画名作，并师从著名国画家张石培先生和任敏教授等艺术家，吸取经验，扩大视野，对旧金山的环境和花鸟长期观察和写生，磨炼笔墨，作品个性更加鲜明，反映了人与自然的和谐，具有旧金山当地的特色。他的作品既具有中国文人画融合诗情画意的传统，又倾注了一个移居西方的东方画家的视野和情感，具有与传统中国画不同的面目。
另一方面，他长期坚持创作传统中国诗词。20多年来，作为一个华裔移民，他用诗歌抒发自己情感，作品在海外报刊和网络上有一定的影响。
下面是邓治权参加的一些主要展览。
2016年10月，《相聚龙城——郭梅焕、邓治权美西印象作品展》在东莞市石龙博物馆展出；
2017年3月，《鸟语花香——邓治权花鸟画展》在旧金山总图书馆展出；
2017年11月，5幅作品参加《中美知名书画艺术家书画联展》，在广东省华侨博物馆展出。

Officials from the Beijing Caofeidian International Vocational Educational City as well as the China Venture Capital Federation came to visit.