Mission
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2 Languages 2 Art forms Intergrade Problem-solving
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Chiki Chiqui Arts and Dance is established in 2018 by Bay Area based professional artists, Chinchin Hsu and Qiké Quintero. As wife and husband, dancer and visual artist, Mandarin and Spanish speakers, we are extending our studio art making, collaboration and culture backgrounds to share with kids and families. We believe everyone has an artist in them, and value the art making process intergrades with relevance, problem-solving mind and creative fun. Don’t worry if you haven’t had Mandarin or Spanish lessons, we are not a language school, you will learn the language through arts and dance with Chiki Chiqui Arts & Dance!
CHINCHIN HSU teaching artist
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​Chinchin Hsu is a native of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, who loves to move, create, share, eat and listen to stories. She has trained in ballet, various modern techniques, Tai Chi, Chinese martial art and improvisation. Chinchin graduated cum laude and received her BFA from New World School of the Arts. In 2008, Chinchin moved to San Francisco and has worked with ODC, KUNST- STOFF, Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers, Tanya Bello, Kara Davis, Lenora Lee, LEVYdance, Sara Shelton Mann, Katie Faulkner, Christy Funsch, and Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. Outside of studio time, Chinchin is an artist mentor with Performing Arts Workshop serving various youth communities in the Bay Area.
Qiké Quintero teaching artist
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Coming from a Hispanic background, Qiké was exposed early to stories that dealt a lot with magic realism.
This has always been one of the main interests in his work. Being somewhere in-between reality and fantasy.
Qiké's first encounter with art was when he was five years old when he made a paper kite at school.
It wasn’t until a year or two after the paper kite experience that his mother drew a cow for him on his homework assignment, he knew he had to learn how to draw someday.
After many years of honing his skills, reading about the masters, and working tirelessly to gain technical art skills he knew that the path for him was to continue this rough and yet rewarding road of being an artist. He loves bringing visual worlds and stories to life. Whether it be with Photoshop, drawing, oils, watercolors, pen and paper. Qiké is currently a teaching artist at Creativity Explored; his work has been featured in Society of Illustrators student competition, 3x3 Magazine of Contemporary Illustration, City Lights (Taiwan)
