Trusted: "Thank you for the Timeless masterpiece!" ------Capital Percentage Public Art Commission Committee.

Ai Qiu Hopen, Chen Hopen, Ming Mei Hopen, Kona Gray(inclusive design director), Dennis Poon(structural design), Humanity Memorial Team

Created from Love and compassion:
Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial, Feedback:

“Wings of Love”,  the only artwork favorited by the Permanent Memorial selection committee among 189 entries. Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Project: 

"Dear Ai Qiu,

Tricia L. Pinto (Mother of Jack Pinto, one of 20 children and 6 teacher victims in Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States)

  You are Love You are Light, Memorial To David Gordon, Washington DC

“Ms Hopen infuse scenes with love and hope. The statue has aged flawlessly without any maintenance…….I believe Ms. Hopen is highly talented and motivated, has exceptional technical skills and experience as a sculptor and has unique gifts that give her work an auteur, magic, spirituality and compelling presence that is extremely rare, if not unique.”

 David and Lisa Daniel (David’ parents, David Gordon Memorial Project), 01/28/2020

Notable awards and Recognition:

National competition 2021, winner, Monument to Peace and Unity, 24 feet mark  main entry to Coeur d’Alene ID, honors the city long commitment to human right and human dignity.

2022 National competition, winner,  Majestic Buffalo Spirit of Inclusion, commissioned by New York State Parks and Recreations and State  of New York .
2022 National Design Competition, winner,  “Sunrise of Inclusion” and “Sunrise of Unity”, Miami, Fl 2022
International Design Competition, Winner, “Pioneer , Global Connection”, Jacksonville, Florida
2022 National Deign Competition, Winner, Embrace/ Belonging, 24 Ft, Racial Equality Vermont Commission, Dewey Park
2022 International Design competition, Winner, Bas relief Circle of Hope, Japanese Cultural Museum, California
2022 National Design Competition Winner, Ohio Park, Celebrating Diversity, 16 feet landmark
2022 National Design Competition, Finalist, Budget 1 Million, Martin Luther King Monument, Cincinnati Ohio
2022 National Competition Winner, cultural landmark museum, Unity, Santa Maria, CA. 16 Feet Landmark
2022 National Competition, Finalist, Rock of Truth Landmark, Cincinnati University 20 feet landmark
2021 International Competition 2021 Winner,  Gateway landmark ECO Park, Our team with renown WallacePancher Group is the only team from North America won the international competition to build one of the 7 parks.
2021 National competition, finalist, Orlando Florida, Disney World of World, Special Olympic Cauldron Design
2021 National competition, finalist, Interactive signature art for children, Washington DC Capital Hill Montessori school
2021 National Competition Winner, landmark,24 feet,main entrance, tourist city of Coeur d’ Alene, ID
2020 National Competition Finalist, honoring the contributions of Matthew Gaines for Texas A&M University
2020 National competition Finalist, Law Enforcement Memorial for Law Enforcement Garden, Kansas City.
2020 National competition Finalist, Diversity Gateway Landmark, For downtown Sarasota Florida 
2019 National competition winner, Ida B. Wells civil right Icon Ida B. Well, Capital Coolidge High school
2019 National competition winner, landmark, Unity Arch, McKinney TX No.1 best place to live by Money Magazine.
2019 National competition, finalist, Florida State Capital, Dozier Boys Memorial honoring 100 abused children
2018, National competition, finalist, honors the enslaved people, St. Mary’s College of Maryland 
2013 National Design competition, Winner, Gate of Freedom ,a major civil right movement monument for foot soldiers for Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, AL. The 1963 Birmingham civil right movement lead by MLK. Budget 1 Million. 
Education: 1995-1999 Education: ECNU Shanghai China, graduated from Modern Art Design and Art Education
Department, reputed as the East of Columbia university.

US Award Winning documentary Film, 2007 US Award Winning documentary film “Beautiful You, Poet Sculptor Ai Qiu Hopen” by Director Ray Schmidt, Real Earth Production. The world premiere took place on Friday, October 6th, in Sutton at The WV Filmmakers Film Festival 2006.

2010-2011 “Wedding at Cana” Eight life size bronze figures, Wichita Spiritual life Center, Wichita, Kansas. (partner with Hopen Studio Inc.)

2003 “John William "Blind" Boone” Seated bronze figure 1.25x lifesize    Blind Boone Memorial  Park, Warrensburg, Mo 

2002   Three Harts    Three life scale bronze bucks atop   a large bronze boulder, to complete      100 year old architect’s    vision of artwork for peristyle arch of    Bavarian castle entrance    Bolt Castle, St. Lawrence River Thousand Isles Bridge authority   Hart Island, St. Lawrence River,  U.S./ Canada    

2005 selected from an international field by shanghai government among 326 entries and commissioned      “Songs of  Harmony”,  with musical fountain for down town     Shanghai Harmony Park                 

2005 Charlie Chaplin for China national sculpture park (Shanghai Oriental park    

 2000 “Magic Bird” , 12 feet tall Stainless-steel , fountain, light/water          Down town Shanghai Real  
1999 “History of Ancient Cultures” Ceramic, relief sculpture mural, 6ft x 32 ft.  Pudong Market Mall, Shanghai China 

 1996-1999 ECNU Shanghai University, East China Normal University (Reputed to be the “Columbia of the East”), attended under art merit scholarship, Academy of Modern Art Design and education, Four year Graduate major in modern art design  

Artwork and memorial structure Integrity  Assured: 
  TT Team profile include Martin Luther King Memorial in National Mall.
TT leading structural design principle, Dennis Poon, landmarks projects also includes world renowned designer of supertall and megatall structures in the world, (Top 25 Newsmakers in 2010).