Teacher Workshop on Trade and Exchange
Saturday, Feb 8 8:30 AM-4 PM
Pre-registration required
Koret Classroom
How does the movement of people, ideas and material goods change societies? Learn from a scholar lecture, a curator walkthrough of the exhibition Lost at Sea: Art Recovered from Shipwrecks, and lively discussions with fellow teachers on using art objects during this collaboration between the Asian Art Museum and the UC Berkeley History and Social Science Project.
Common Core Standard covered include: 6.6.7, 6.VA:Pr6, 7.4.3, 7.11.2, 7.VA:Cn11, 10.4.1, 10.4.3
Natasha Reichle serves as Associate Curator of Southeast Asian Art. She is the curator of the current exhibition, Lost at Sea: Art Recovered from Shipwrecks, which explores maritime archaeology, provenance and ethics through tracing the paths of two sets of artworks from Vietnam to the Asian Art Museum. Her early research focused on esoteric Buddhism in Indonesia; she is the author of Violence and Serenity: Late Buddhist Sculpture from Indonesia, (2007). She is currently working on exhibitions on Southeast Asian textiles and on the history of opium. After studying literature at Yale, Reichle earned a PhD in art history from UC Berkeley.