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Past Events: educators calendar
After the Museum’s year and a half devoted to American folk art, craft and design it seems appropriate to return to Mingei’s origins and to plumb again the rich core of the Museum’s collection, its Japanese arts of daily life. Brief selections from Soetsu Yanagi’s writings (he coined the word mingei) will accompany and give context to a wide range of objects, not thought of as art until Yanagi’s inspired insight, but today recognized as beautiful and often timeless.
This exhibition features sculpture from the Museum’s collection of historic Tibetan lamas and noted teachers of Tibetan Buddhism.
An NCTA workshop with Mary Barber Roberts, held at the University of Washington in Seattle.
The Asian Art Museum presents a workshop for educators that interacts with the exhibition "China at the Center"
Tibet House US presents an exhibit on contemporary Tibetan art.
The Asian Art Museum hosts a discussion with the Light Awards Project team on building support for Japanese learning programs.
The Japan Society presents a professional development workshop that examines historical experiences in Japan and the United States before, during, and after the Second World War in the Asia-Pacific (1937-1945) in order to deepen teachers’ understanding of not only the nature of that conflict but also the war’s ongoing influence upon U.S.-Japan relations.
Gold. It evokes power, wealth, royalty, devotion and, above all, immortality.
The EMP Museum at Seattle Center presents an exhibition that explores the Japanese and now global icon, Hello Kitty.
How does a city develop a distinct visual identity? This question became a major theme in Japanese art during the Edo period (1615–1868). Woodblock print designers helped promote a nascent domestic travel industry by publishing images of “famous places” (meisho) throughout the country.