Xiran Liu

Innovative and proactive museum professional with five years of experience in visitor engagement, field trip, and demo development, training and demo designing, museum informal education, visitor research and evaluation, volunteer management, events and public program planning, and creative activity and project coordinating. Advanced and intermediate levels of multiple languages. Seasoned expert in research, survey designing, and data analysis. Formal and informal training in art and design history and technique, cultural policy and planning, anthropology, sociology, financial management for nonprofits, and history. Prepared to offer museum administration abilities and cross-cultural perspectives to team.

• Key Project of Beijing Social Science Foundation: History of Beijing Arts and Crafts Studies, Associate Professor Xiaobo Teng, 09/2015, 09/2017, Edited the fingers volume of Chinese Arts and Crafts Complete Works. Collected information on Chinese arts and crafts exhibitions. Visited various exhibitions related to Chinese arts and crafts in Beijing, Hangzhou, Xiamen, ect. and learned about how to organize an arts exhibition.
• Beijing Institution of Higher Learning Young Talents Project: Feminist Design Studies, Associate Professor Xiaobo Teng, 09/2015, 12/2015, Conducted literature reviews and analyzed the classic cases of foreign feminist design. Translated the book As Long as it's Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste in cooperation with supervisor. Shared the research in the US-China Art Summit 2018 and Feminist Art Pedagogy Panel organized by Pennsylvania State University. Got a better understanding of the status of female artists and designers in the art market and knew about the discrimination against gender issues in the art market of China.

• Graphic Design Theory: Reading from the Field, Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing, 978-7-5580-9250-3, Helen Armstrong. eds. (2009), Graphic Design Theory: Reading from the Field, New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
• As Long as it's Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste, Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing, 978-7-5580-5300-9, Penny Sparke. (2010). As Long as it's Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste. Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design.
• Journal of Design History (Collection of Translation), Vol 1, Women and Design, Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing
• Design Research Methods and Perspectives, Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing, Brenda Laurel. eds. (2003), Design Research Methods and Perspectives, Cambridge: MIT Press.
• Activism: Ethical Fashion of Vivienne Westwood, Decoration, 0412-3662, July, 2017
• Redefining Replication: Andy Warhol's Album Cover Game, China-Press 2016 National University Innovation Design Competition, 978-7-122-30076-8, June, 2017
• A Brief Analysis of the Role and Status of Fashion Illustration in the Fashion Industry, The Third National College Illustrations Collection, 978-7-5362-5846-4, December, 2015