Paint to Celebrate!
Art to inspire. Art for healing.
Sow good seeds to the souls.
- FanLuArt -
Paint to Celebrate!
Art to inspire. Art for healing.
Sow good seeds to the souls.
- FanLuArt -
About Fan Lu
Painter • Illustrator • Educator • Wife • Mother
陆帆 Fan Lu (born 1990) is a multidisciplinary, cross-cultural artist and educator from Shanghai, China, currently based in California, USA. Her academic and life experiences span China, Australia, the UK, Italy, and the United States. Her name, “Fan” (帆), pronounced “fān” in Chinese pinyin, holds multiple meanings in “All is Well” and “Sailing.”
In 2013, she graduated from Shanghai Normal University with a BA in Advertising Science (Journalism and Mass Communication Studies). Shanghai Normal University is a comprehensive university with a strong focus on teacher education and liberal arts—the term "Normal" derives from the French école normale, and in China's education system, it historically refers to institutions established to prepare future educators. Fan's major was part of the university's leading College of Humanities and Communication. Upon graduation, she was honored as the Shanghai Outstanding Graduate, a prestigious municipal award that recognizes academic excellence, leadership, and impactful community service contributions.
Throughout her undergraduate years, Fan actively participated in and led a wide range of community projects, including cross-cultural volunteer and nonprofit social welfare initiatives at the local, national, and international levels. These experiences shaped her humanistic perspective and laid a solid interdisciplinary foundation, nurturing her three main areas of interest: the Arts, socially responsible organizations like social enterprises and nonprofits, and Education.
In 2014, she received an MSc in Management and Organisational Innovation with Merit from Queen Mary University of London, where Fan deeply reflected on ways of thinking, learning methods, and the many possibilities life can offer. In 2019, Fan completed an MA in Fine Art (with an emphasis in Drawing and Painting) at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, responding to a CALLING from God and fulfilling a childhood dream of being an art student, as well as exploring art-related work paths. It took her great courage and bravery to leave a materially comfortable life and stable job in her hometown of Shanghai to start anew alone in the United States. Guided by FAITH in God, each step became a blessing, with new abilities and personal growth unfolding along the journey until every day of NOW! And through art and nature, getting healed, spreading inspiration, and celebrating ordinary life with gratitude!
Since 2016, Fan's work has been exhibited in group and solo shows in Florence and several US cities, including San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Alameda. Her artistic practice explores themes such as nature, travel memories, music, faith, education, literature, and daily life, expertised in using a wide range of traditional and digital media, including graphite pencils, charcoal pencils, colored pencils, pastels, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, oil, ink & pen, markers, iPad Procreate and Photoshop. Her fine artwork continues to be cherished and supported by private collectors from diverse cultural backgrounds across the US, France, Japan, and China. Additionally, her illustration work has collaborated with various industries to cover a wide range of walks of life worldwide. Starting in 2020, as an independent teaching artist, she has designed and taught bilingual art courses, utilizing multiple teaching methods tailored for both children and adults, both online and in-person. She also curates community events that integrate her Christian faith. For her, teaching marks the beginning of a new, deeper learning experience as an aspiring educator with a growth mindset.
Fan's early career included full-time work at the government-supported nonprofit natural history museum for public education, internships at two international Business Schools for professional education, translation work in the media industry, and part-time teaching in primary and secondary schools. These early non-art professional work experiences, before becoming an artist, cultivated her good work ethics and habits, as well as shaped her creative thinking and interdisciplinary approach to both art and teaching. Since 2022, she has co-led, alongside her husband, Dr. Samuel Bai, the Family Music Art Ministry that integrates creative arts and science education, serving Christian communities both locally and globally. Together, they have homeschooled and roadschooled their son, Bamboo, for seven years through a faith-inspired, bilingual learning model that integrates the arts and sciences in a unique and personalized way, fostering creativity, spiritual growth, and lifelong learning.
NOW, in 2025, Fan is continuing to walk by FAITH on the paths God has prepared for her, to experience and live them out more deeply. Also shaped by early-life challenges and cross-cultural experiences, and having been raised in a family of generational educators and entrepreneurs, her work conveys positive messages of courage, perseverance, gratitude, resilience, healing, and quiet strength. Through her artwork, teaching, and community service, she continues to bridge cultures, express her faith, and inspire joy.
All GLORY to God.
Art Philosophy
Art to inspire. Art for healing.
Paint to Celebrate!
Teaching Philosophy
Sow good seeds to the souls.
Music Art Ministry
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