About Fan Lu | Educator · Artist · Painter · Illustrator · Wife · Mother
陆帆 Fan Lu was born in 1990 in Shanghai, China. In Chinese, 帆 is pronounced /fān/ in pinyin, meaning "All is well" and "Sailing." Her academic pursuits have led her to study and live in China, Australia, the UK, Italy, and the United States. Fan Lu holds a BA in Advertising Science (Journalism and Mass Communication Studies) from Shanghai Normal University, and in 2013, she was honored with the Shanghai Outstanding Graduate Award. In 2014, Fan achieved an MSc in Management and Organisational Innovation (with Merit) from Queen Mary University of London. In 2019, she completed an MA in Fine Art, with an emphasis in Drawing and Painting, at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, with her husband and son.
After resigning from a stable, full-time position in the public sector (known as the Public Institution BianZhi) at a government-funded Shanghai Natural History Museum (a branch of Shanghai Science and Technology Museum), Fan came to the USA in 2016 to study painting in response to God's calling and a childhood dream of pursuing an artistic path. Also, since 2016, Fan's work has been exhibited in group and solo shows in Florence and in several U.S. cities, including San Francisco, Palo Alto, Alameda, and more. Her artistic practice explores themes such as nature, travel memories, music, faith, education, literature, and daily life, using a wide range of traditional and digital media. Fan is mostly great at abstract in music and landscape, but also skilled in various styles. As an aspiring educator, Fan has devoted time to designing and teaching bilingual art courses for children and adults since 2020, both online and in person, and to curating community events that integrate art, faith, and culture. Teaching, for Fan Lu, is a dedicated service to give back to the community; most importantly, it is to give thanks to God gave to her.
Fan's early career in public education, museums, and higher education at international business schools, as well as in primary and secondary schools, and in media, shapes her interdisciplinary approach to art and teaching. Since 2018, after giving birth to their son, Bamboo, while Fan was still pursuing her second master's degree, Fan and her husband, Dr. Samuel Bai, have homeschooled their son through a faith-based, arts- and science-integrated model focused on nurturing creativity, spiritual growth, and lifelong learning. In 2022, they also began co-leading their family Music Art Ministry (now the Family Creative Arts Ministry), which serves Christian communities locally and globally, and collaborated with various cross-cultural churches in different locations. She appreciates celebrating the ordinary life as an extraordinary lifestyle. Fan has experienced, survived, and thrived through many childhood and teenage early-life adversities and injustices in school, family of origin, workplaces, and cross-cultural experiences in different countries; living out gratitude, resilience, healing, and quiet strength, bridging cultures, encouraging souls, and walking in the light by faith. The spiritual exploration and Christian faith journey enlightenment began in 2002, and Fan was baptised in 2015 in Shanghai.
Now, after ten years, in 2025, Fan also continued to have two new solo art shows of her original artwork, and, while working on the large-format custom artwork, and continuity for homeschooling, Fan also initiated many local community events, receiving much positive feedback in a non-Christian environment, which, however, really reflects God's mercy and grace. At the same time, she courageously initiated the Art and Faith fellowship group (Art and Faith Ministry) during the final stage of the newly merged local New Bridges UMC—formed from the two previously collapsed ones—during a particularly subdued period. This was a response to God's calling to give back and help the two churches, Twin Towers UMC and Embrace, that had supported her artistic growth in offering her studio and first teaching opportunity from 2018 to 2019. But the new church is becoming more of a social club on the superficial rather than on spiritual growth, with more about the authority's controls and re-narrative. No matter what, in the waiting season of Advent, it is a good time to reflect on holding faith without relying on any human or religious systems that lack real life. This year, 2025, has been another fruitful one, with clearer spiritual discernment. And, gratefully, the Holy Spirit has refreshed the soul in the healing art again.
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