Traditional Chinese arts are alive and well at Baptist University, as demonstrated by a display of students' work.
The 45 calligraphy pieces and 90 seal engravings are by about 40 students in the university's Academy of Visual Arts.
Third-year student Jarvis Luk Chun-wing, 21, had never tried calligraphy until he took an elective course last year. His oversized scrolls - bearing a couplet lamenting the difficulties families can go through - were produced on strips of cloth rather than traditional rice paper.
'The fabric does not absorb the ink so it produces a drier, hard textured finish,' he said.
Mancy Li Suet-ling, 21, also in the third year, carved caricatures of family members on stone seals. 'My family is important to me,' she said.
Assistant professor Daniel Lau Chak-kwong said students had made rapid progress in a course that lasted just three months.
