Ma Wenxia
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han ethnicity, born in August 1952 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. A senior arts and crafts artist, a model worker of the national light industry, and a recipient of the May First Heroine title awarded by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. After joining the Harbin Arts and Crafts Factory in 1972 she has devoted herself continuously to the making of wheat-straw collage. The works she has designed and made have appeared in numerous exhibitions and won awards, and her products are sold at home and abroad. Her representative works include Guo Tai Min An (National Peace and Prosperity) and Qing Xiang Man Ren Jian (Fragrance Filling the World). She has led fellow bearers in uncovering and collating relevant materials, established a database of bearers' skills and an exhibition hall for wheat-straw craft as intangible cultural heritage, set up a training institute for wheat-straw collage, compiled the textbook Course on Wheat-Straw Collage Techniques, and taught in training classes at various schools, undertaking a great deal of work for the protection and transmission of the art of wheat-straw collage.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Wheat-straw Collage, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Wheat-straw Collage Ⅶ-69
- Wheat-straw Collage Ⅶ-69
- Wheat-straw Collage Ⅶ-69
- Wheat-straw Collage Ⅶ-69
Profile
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