Special feature: DailyHaiga is pleased to present an exciting week
of sumi-e haiga by Steven Addiss
Stephen Addiss is a poet-scholar-artist with a special interest in the interactions of painting, poetry, and calligraphy. He is a Professor at the University of Richmond, and his paintings and calligraphy have been exhibited in China, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, England, France, Germany, and in many American venues. Addiss has also illustrated A River of Stars, Four Huts, and his co-translation of Tao Te Ching. He has published more than 200 poems, and he is the author of The Art of Zen, Haiga: Haiku-Painting, How to Look at Japanese Art, Tall Mountains and Flowing Waters, 77 Dances: Japanese Calligraphy, Japanese Ghosts and Demons, Old Taoist, Zen Art Book, and The Art of Chinese Calligraphy.
As a composer, musician, poet, painter and Japanese art historian, Steven Addiss is the recipient of four grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and one from the National Endowment for the Arts. He holds degrees from Harvard University and the University of Michigan and taught for 15 years at the University of Kansas before joining the faculty at Richmond.
