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.
Reflections of the Cosmic Web: Intricate Patterns in Daoist Art
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art presents an exhibition from their collection of Qing dynasty art.
When:
April 7, 2019 1:45pm
Where
JSMA founder Gertrude Bass Warner lived in China for many years, amassing an astonishing collection with special interest in art of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912). She bequeathed enviable riches to the museum, among them some with fine Daoist iconography. Next to the teachings of Confucius, Daoism is one of the two indigenous philosophical traditions of China that have evolved over more than two thousand years. Followers of Daoism are committed to the study of nature and to the cultivation of a harmonious lifestyle that increases the flow of internal energy (qi) to attain physical health, longevity, and a non-intrusive mental comportment. Initiate members of the Daoist clergy practice rituals of purification and renewal and celebrate offerings to deities representing cosmic principles. This exhibition features selected textiles, paintings, prints, ceramics, jades, and other decorative objects from the Warner collection as well as a few contemporary works of art that reflect the rich naturalistic and mystical imagery associated with the concepts of Daoism. This rotation is co-curated by UO Chinese History Professor Ina Asim and Anne Rose Kitagawa.
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