The first stage plan of FLCAM (2004-2005) includes the building of two longitudinal dragon-like exhibition halls, a multifunctional dome hall, resident center including six living quarters and a working studio, and the HSU Museum House. All these buildings were completed in 2004 and two museums, namely the French Museum and the Scandinavia Museum were built in 2005.

IA. FLICAM Main Exhibition Halls (2004)

     IA.1   FuLe International Ceramic Museums (FLICAM) started to build the main Dome Hall, twin longitudinal Dragon Halls, the Resident Center including a work studio and 6 living quarter, and the HSU Museum House in April, 2004. They all completed in August that year. To celebrate the completion of the construction, FLICAM held an International Ceramic Journal Editors Symposium in August 2004.It was very successful and more than 10 editors attended the meeting. An International Ceramic Emerging Artists Exhibition was also held in the Dome Hall. 63 international emerging artists (from 33 countries and regions) as recommended by editors to participate. The proceedings of the meeting and the catalog of the exhibition were published. The book has a total of 184 pages. It is available to purchase at the Axner Supply Co. in the U.S .

      IA.2   At the end of the First International Ceramic Editors Symposium, a Fuping Declaration was issued and the International Ceramic Magazines Editors’ Association (ICMEA) was formed. ICMEA is based in Fuping and it will have its meeting once every three years in Fuping. FLICAM promised to build a documentary museum, or an International Ceramic Information Center. It is suggested that this center will collect a complete set of the world ceramic journal and the center will establish a website “FLICAM/ICMEA” and load all article title to the computer so it is possible to do cross correlation of the artist and the type of art work and provide service to all ceramic artists in the world.

Dragon Hall Inside(2004)		outside view of Hsu Museum House

The Denmark Museum was the first one FLICAM intended to build. Five Denmark artists came to Fuping in 2004 and did art work. Then the idea to expand into a Scandinavia Museum came up and it was accepted by Danish artists as well as the FLICAM management. Dr. Hsu made a trip to visit all 4 Scandinavia countries and all the other 3 Scandinavia countries agreed to join. In 2005, 5 Swedish artists and 4 Norwegian artists came to Fuping and made art work in Fuping and attended the opening ceremony of the Scandinavia Museum. Likely this year more Scandinavia artists will come. (Scandinavia artists are listed in the following, bold face names are the organizers):
  Sweden 瑞典：
2005 Jennifer Forsberg, Ulla Viotti, Renata Francescon, Jakob Robertsson, Maria Angquist Klyvare,  Gert Germeraad,
2006 Inger Sodergren,      Marianne Hallberg, Margon Lindberg
Norway 挪威：2005 
Ole Lislerud, Helen Kortner, Christian Peel, Marian Heyerdahl, Gunhild Vatn (2006)
Denmark 丹麦：2004 
Nina Hole, Bodil Manz, Ann Line-mann, Michael Geersten, Steen Lykke Madsen      
Finland 芬兰 2008

Denmark artists Priscilla Mouritzen will come in 2006-7. Bodil Manz also asked to come to Fuping in 2006 again. At least two more Swedish artists and one or two Norwaegian artists may come in 2006 again. All Finland artists will come in 2006.

It is interesting to note that the Resident Center we built was not welcome by artists because the work studio is too far away from the kiln and the main facilities and the living quarters are also too far from the working place and the hotel and restaurant. So, the FLICAM management decided in early 2005 to convert the Resident Work Studio into the Scandinavia Museum by adding an atrium type glass room in the front as the entrance. It is an all-brick structure. Swedish artist Maria Klyvare made a large mosaic tile wall (a subject of birch tree) in the front of the building. It was finished in early November and enough time for the opening of the Museum in November 13, 2005. The art works made by these almost 20 Scandinavia artists were installed the day before and the exhibition was successfully presented.

Photo: Opening ceremony of Scandinavia Museum:

Inside of the Scandinavian Museum

Daphne Corregan, Gilles Suffren and Jacque Kaufmann worked very hard for our French Museum project. Daphne finally come up a list of 28 French ceramic artists who want to come to Fuping. Now it becomes a 3 years program. In 2005, 10 French artists came and did the work for the opening. The rest will come in 2006 and 2007. Many important artists are on the list.

FLICAM started to construct the French Museum in late July and in 37 days it was finished just before the opening day. The opening ceremony was conducted in joy. No one believed it could be done. The opening date is at the end of the workshop, August 31, 2005.

Through the assistance of French Embassy in China. our project, the French Museum became the last project of the China-France Culture Year. Ms. Arff , project manager, came to Fuping to conduct the ground-breaking ceremony. In January and May of 2005, Dr. Hsu went to France twice to meet artists who would come to Fuping to work.

Photo: View of French Museum from the backside

Inside of the French Museum

French Ceramic Artists ( Workshop participants):
2005(10)
Philippe Godderidge, Jean Nicolas Gerard, Claire Bogino, Daniel Pontoreau, Daphne Corregan
Gilles Suffren, Agathe Larpent, Kristen McKirdy, Anne Rochette, Patrick Loughran,
2006(11)
Nani Champy, Claudy Champy, Wayne Fischer, Michel Gardelle, Jean Pierre Viot, Haguiko