Believing that all organizations aim to increase productivity, profitability and personal fulfillment, Jolene brings her experience in working with people of different interests and backgrounds to all her enterprises. Coupled with her keen mind and delight in enhancing organizational business development and profitability, she writes, designs, presents and produces advertising, marketing and promotional campaigns for small and mid-sized businesses, including development of corporate identity packages and profit-sharing investment and development projects. As a developer of strategic solutions and creative resources, Jolene's company, Auburndale Development Inc., supports a strong and diverse client base of authors, educators, retailers, business-to-business firms, service providers, and nonprofit organizations.
In 1998, Jolene realized a dream when she co-founded the holistic learning center and artistic sanctuary called Hut Humble in Auburndale, NY. Located on 5,000 square feet of space, it had an ample art gallery; a large public performance space adjoining an Oriental tea room; a large classroom; a publishing office, and a bookstore featuring works dedicated to the arts, sciences and the philosophy of everyday living. She envisioned Hut Humble as a meeting place for people of all backgrounds to unite in their love of art, culture, spirituality and humanity. Jolene designed the space, following her philosophy of sensing and bringing the classic to modern life, enjoying and respecting the thoughtfulness of previous eras, thus maintaining the knowledge and teaching of the aged wisdom (feng shui). This resulted in a lovely and inviting classical environment, termed "A Center of Tranquility" in a full-page profile in Newsday by Nancy Ruhling on Sept. 18, 1998.
"For the past eleven years," says Jolene, "I indulged myself in the study of the art of Chinese culture. Although I am Chinese, it never occurred to me that I would fall in love with my own culture, as I am now. The Chinese understood the whole of life as the proper field of creativity, not just ceramics, music, books and paintings, but also drinking tea, writing poetry and making love. Everything we do can be an art. Everything can be infused with creativity and beauty. It is an outpouring of the thought and feeling called up in me by Tao, art and love. Tao is the path to human goodness." Jolene says the living Tao is in humanity. Her teachers of the wisdom of Tao include the I Ching and the Tao Te Ching. "Art is as natural as the sea, the birds, the clouds. Love is no other than the rhythm of Tao. My teacher to love is life."
Jolene Wu, (212) 931-8536, portableheaven@aol.com