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This exhibition is organized by the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the Department of Culture, Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs of the Royal Government of Bhutan. The art conservation, dance preservation, and educational programs of The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan are made possible through the lead support of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation.
Major support for The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan is provided by the E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Michael and Patricia O’Neill Charitable Fund, Susan Pillsbury, and Lawrence and Joyce Stupski. Additional support is provided by Le Burta G. Atherton, the Freeman Foundation, Hotels & Resorts of Halekulani, Japan Airlines, Drukair, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the W.L.S. Spencer Foundation.
Terese Tse Bartholomew, curator emeritus of Himalayan art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, served as guest curator of the exhibition.
Presentation at the Asian Art Museum is made possible by support from the Columbia Foundation, American Express, the Shau-Wai & Marie Lam Family Foundation, Carmen M. Christensen, and Frances Bushell.
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Located
in the Himalayas to the east of Mount Everest and Nepal, Bhutan
is unique as a sovereign nation that has maintained its ancient
culture, arts, and religious and political traditions intact.
Bhutan is one of the few countries in Asia that was never
colonized by its neighbors or Western powers.