Ruoxi International Art Village (administratively known as Shangrichuan Village) is located in Hesheng Town, Yongjia County, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China. It is an art education demonstration village jointly built by a team led by Mr. Zhou Jianpeng, a postdoctoral fellow from Peking University and a local scholar from Ruoxi Village, and government units at all levels.

Through artistic exchanges, Chinese artists are connected with artists from around the world, and a series of international exchange activities such as "Encounter" are held to create a unique landscape of "half village fireworks and half village painting". Art is used to illuminate the beautiful countryside of China, and active explorations have been made in the combination of art and sociology, following the footsteps of Mr. Liang Shuming and Mr. Fei Xiaotong.

The village is a comprehensive village that integrates calligraphy museum, landscape painting museum, oil painting museum, mounting museum, cultural and creative museum, library, artist studio, artist vegetable garden, and sketching base, and involves business scope such as college sketching, youth art study tours, art derivative development, and mineral pigment production.

At present, Ruoxi Village is about to launch the "International Artist Residency" plan, sincerely inviting international artists to come to the village for on-site sketching and creation, to have close contact with China's local and natural scenery, and enjoy a wholehearted healing in the mountains and rivers of Yongjia. We will provide the following supporting services for free, including:

1. Accommodation

2. Catering

3. Transportation (travel within the Wenzhou area)

4. Creative Studio

The obligation to become a resident artist:

Create a piece/piece of work with Yongjia scenery as the theme that will be permanently preserved in the village.

Residence time: 15 days (per period)

Contact : Email- 444878818@qq.com(Mr. Zhou)

 International Artist Residency Program

This plan was inspired by the 2018 event "When Paris Meets Wenzhou - Chinese and French Artists Wenzhou Sketching and Exhibition", proposed by Mr. Remy Airon, Chairman of the French Artists Association. And it was improved in the 2019 event "When London Meets Wenzhou - Chinese and British Artists Wenzhou Sketching and Exhibition". In the 2023 sketching exchange event "When Milan Meets Wenzhou - Wenzhou Sketching and Exhibition of Chinese and Italian Artists", the plan was once again proposed by Professor Andrea del Gourchou, Director of Contemporary Art History and Curator at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Brera, Milan.

Throughout history, artists have created extraordinary legacies through their travels and residences in distant regions, indicating that aesthetic collisions can stimulate innovative thinking and achieve innovation in artistic research.

Ruoxi International Art Village hopes to rely on the "residency" plan to make it more convenient for each artist to expand their experience dimension through travel and exchange, and to achieve intimate contact with the vast space of Wenzhou and Yongjia, which has undergone changes in the sea, not only possessing natural landscapes, but also modern architecture and urban culture. This will revitalize the traditional "residency" of artists across regions, break the "human, national, and visual boundaries" of artistic creation, and create more exciting and perse artistic heritage.

When Paris Meets Wenzhou - Chinese and French Artists Wenzhou Sketching and Exhibition

When London Meets Wenzhou - Chinese and British Artists Wenzhou Sketching and Exhibition

When Milan Meets Wenzhou - Chinese and Italian Artist Wenzhou Sketching and Exhibition

Nanxi Academy

Address:Xia'ao, Hesheng Town, Yongjia County, Wenzhou City