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Deena Gu has had extensive teaching experience. She has given lectures, demonstrations and/or classes at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania and at other Institutions, at schools and colleges. For both adults and children she provides instruction in calligraphy and Chinese Watercolor for further information.

"Meeting Deena Gu, Seeing a diverse display of her artwork, and then   receiving a first-class painting lesson combined for a very special experience". Wendy Paulson Deena, Wendy Paulson, Jacalyn Leavitt, and Mrs. Zhou

Deena has also been teaching kids. Each month, she spends two Sundays teaching Chinese girls of nearby families girls adopted by American families to learn Chinese paintings. Mentioning this, she smiled like a proud mother. She called them "my girls".  "My girls love painting. When they come to my house, they were so devoted that they even refuse to take a break during the three hours class". Totally Shanghai Magazine By Joy Jiang At Philadelphia Museum of Art, with her students

Donna Mclarty, Sherbirne Abbott, Deena, and Mary Kennedy	Jacalyn Leavitt, Deena, Robin Jeffery, and Wendy Paulson	Deena, Ester Coopersmith, Carole Geithner, Grace Nelson, Yunying Chen, and Dawn Ferguson	Deena, Carole Geithner, and Grace Nelson
Children Art Class	Chinese Calligraphy at Philadelphia Museum of Art	Asian Afternoon; Watercolor Exhibition and Demonstration at University of Pennsylvania Museum	Chinese Figure Painting Workshop; East  Asian Calligraphy at Philadelphia Museum of Art