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.
Psycho/Somatic: Visions of the Body in Contemporary East Asian Art
The Allen Memorial Art Museum of Oberlin College is currently hosting Psycho/Somatic: Visions of the Body in Contemporary East Asian Art. This exhibition examines divergent ways of thinking about the body—from physical vehicle to transcendent symbol—and how our perceptions are created in large part by the culture in which we live.
When:
June 16, 2015 10:00am to June 5, 2016 5:00pm
Where
In Asian thought, the body is often understood in many ways and on multiple levels simultaneously. A number of the works examine the mind-body relationship found in esoteric Buddhist traditions, and how it can reveal an individual's larger dimensions, through visual quotations from religious imagery. Other works reference the physical body - its biology and appearance - as well as a representation of identity, or the roles played by an individual in society. Many of the works may be interpreted from all of these perspectives. The exhibition also features a 15-minute video that relates the emotion of anger, as embodied by the wrathful Buddhist deity Yamantaka, with the neurophysical reactions that occur in the body.
This exhibition was organized by Kevin R.E. Greenwood, the Joan L. Danforth Assitant Curator of Asian Art.
Cost:
Free
Event Website URL:
Phone Number:
(440) 775-8665
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