Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
From Cathay to khita’i: The Development of "chinoiserie" in Mongol Iran
Ladan Akbarnia gives an overview of khita'i — an apparently Chinese or far eastern - inspired aesthetic.
When:
May 6, 2008 12:00am
Tuesday, May 6
6:30-8 PM
This illustrated lecture gives an overview of khita’i—an apparently Chinese or far eastern-inspired aesthetic revealed in the form of motifs such as lotuses, peonies, scrolling cloud bands, fantastical creatures like dragons and simurghs, as an artistic phenomenon generated by the Mongol connections between China and Greater Iran and its development in the Iranian world.
Ladan Akbarnia is Hagop Kevorkian Associate Curator of Islamic Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
$10 member and Brooklyn Museum member
$15 non-member
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