Besides presentations, demonstrations, workshops, and course at schools, churches, libraries, and art institutions, since 2013 I have taught many individuals at my own E-bridge Art Studio in America and Australia during my trips; and since May 2015, in Australia, I initiated experimental teaching at Sydney’s Seniors’ Healthcare Institution. By the end of 2015, I had taught 164 hours at E-bridge Art Studio in Sydney, Australia, and Springfield, Missouri, USA, and 4 hours of experimental teaching at the Senior Healthcare Institution in Australia.

1.In Australia:

-- May and June 2025: I gave a presentation and a workshop on my cross-cultural and integrated art for three hours at New Home Care in Sydney, Australia.

1) June 27,2025:Twenty-one elders completed their first Chinese painting at my art workshop in Sydney, Australia.

2) May 23, 2025: I gave a presentation featuring painting, music, and poetry for over 40 seniors in Sydney, Australia.

-- May 10–July 25, 2025: I taught three individuals for 15 hours at E-Bridge Cross-Cultural and Integrated Art Sydney Studio.   

-- March–April 2024: I taught the first individual for 10 hours at E-Bridge Cross-Cultural and Integrated Art Sydney Studio.

2.In America:

-- January 17–March 7, 2025: A group of highly educated Chinese-American amateur artists (two doctors, one professor, two instructors, two engineers, and one manager) continued and completed their initial Chinese Gongbi lessons for approximately 53 hours (eight of their total 61 hours of lessons were given in local libraries) at E-Bridge Cross-Cultural and Integrated Art Studio in Springfield, Missouri, USA.

1) They are on the second group of the photos in the link

2) You can see them on the second photo via the link

3) You can see their first Chinese Gongbi Painting works in the second group of photos via the link.

4) You can see them via the link on the second of group of photos.

-- Since October 14, 2015, to September 26, 2020: I taught many teenagers and some adults to learn Chinese art and language through enjoying and practicing painting, music, and poetry at E-Bridge American Cross-Cultural and Integrated Art Studio.   

1) July–September 2020: while restricted in the USA due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I taught a group of local teenagers Chinese art for approximately nine weeks, about 21 hours, at E-bridge American art studio.

You can see some snippets of their learning and artwork via the link in the last seven or eight photos.   

2) I also taught Mrs. Ellen alone to paint from nature about four or five times, for a total of approximately 15 hours.
— November–December 2017: I gave my two young neighbors —Mr. Bryan Pawloski and Mr. Bailey Goodale (they appear in the fourth and fifth photos on the right)—some Chinese lessons for four hours at E-bridge American Studio.   
You can see them in the 4th and fifth photos via the link dated November 28, 2017.

--   October–December 2013: Several groups of teenagers came to me to learn Chinese art at my residence for over 15 hours.   

Here are some snippets of their learning.

1) October 2013–December 2015:This girl in the third photo from the bottom on the link often came to learn Chinese poetry for over 20 hours.

2) Also, a girl learned Chinese poetry from me for about 9 hours in a coffee shop in Springfield, Missouri, in 2013.

If you have any questions, comments, or advice, you are welcome to write to me via info@ebridge.cn orshirley@ebridge.cn, and I will be very delighted to read them and respond to you with a big smile.

Sincerely,
Shirley Yiping Zhang

Jan 25, 2026