Asian Art Museum of San Francisco: AsiaAlive Program


			AsiaAlive

			AsiaAlive is a free, interactive, drop-in program for all ages featuring live artist demonstrations, hands-on activities, and information on rotating themes.
			Upcoming Programs Shanghai Crafts Saturday, February 20 12:00 noon – 4:00 pm Samsung Hall Free with museum admission Meet fifteen master artists from Shanghai. From gourd sculptures to bead arts, paper craft to embroidery, the artists demonstrate many forms of Chinese traditional art. Artists presented are: Li Zungui (Gourd Sculpture), Wang Maifang (Cloth Art), Yang Haidi (Silhouette Cutting), Chen Kaifeng (Dough Sculpture), Bian Yuling (Bead Art), Chen Yushu (Sugar Painting), Li Xionggang (Pop Can Art), Li Zheng (Lantern Painting), Xu Hongbao (Silk netting), Lu Xionghe (paper Modeling), Du Weiqiu (Paper Cutting), Tang Mingmin (Embroidery), Ying Yan (Chinese Knot), Shi Yanhua (Polymer Clay Art), Xing Guanghai (Dragon and Phoenix Calligraphy and Painting). Co-organized by Chinese New Year Parade Committee.
	Propaganda poster by Ming Ren (1976)		Propaganda Poster Art Friday through Sunday March 12 through 14 12:00 noon–4:00 pm Education Resouce Room in Tateuchi Gallery (Second Floor) Free with museum admission In conjunction with the special exhibition, Shanghai, former propaganda poster artist and the Bay Area art instructor Ming Ren leads a conversation with audience. Ren will discuss his experience as a working artist during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and his cultural and artistic identity in the US.
			art projects to make at home Enjoy art making activities for all ages, including Japanese Teahouse Model Making and Samurai Armor making activities. New activity: Make Your Own Thai Style Shadow Puppet! Also, check out Thai Spirit House making activity. For more fun art project ideas, please visit our past AsiaAlive resource page.
	See the past AsiaAlive program photos. Photo by RJ Muna, courtesy of World Arts West.		Alumni News Korea-American painter Kichung Lizee (AsiaAlive October 2003) was in a group show called Absgraphy (Abstract+Calligraphy) at Mulpa Space in Seoul, Korea in April and May, 2009. A catalog from this exhibition in the museum's library. Hadi Tabatabai (AsiaAlive March 2005) is exhibiting in at inde/jacobs Gallery in Texas May-July, 2009. Gene Yuen Yang, who demonstrated his comic art during the Tezuka exhibition (Summer 2006), started a serialized comic called "Prime Baby" in the New York Times Funny Pages in November 2008. Odissi Dancer Niharika Mohanty (AsiaAlive May 2008) performed in the Ethnic Dance Festival June 21-22, 2008. For details of that performance, please click here. Lucy Arai (AsiaAlive Dec 2005-Jan 2006), whose abstract contemporary works blend East Asian brushwork with sashiko running stitch embroidery, was featured in KQED's Spark with segments filmed at the museum. Watch the clip online at www.kqed.org. Painter and installation artist Ala Ebtekar (AsiaAlive July 2006) was featured in the exhibition organized by the Asia Society entitled One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now.
			Highlights and Resources from Past Programs Read about previous AsiaAlive program materials and resources. Resources include readings, activity suggestions, videos and more!
			Lead funding for the Asian Art Museum's education programs and activities is provided by the Bank of America Foundation. Major support provided by the Freeman Foundation, the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, and the Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation. Additional support provided by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the Louise Rosenberg & Claude Rosenberg Jr. Family Foundation, the Louise M. Davies Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, the Mary M. Tanenbaum Fund, the Robert and Helen Odell Fund, the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, the Joseph R. McMicking Foundation, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Dodge & Cox, the Mervyn L. Brenner Foundation, Inc., the Joel E. Ferris Foundation, and Bingham McCutchen. Support for AsiaAlive is provided by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. Artist travel provided by by United Airlines, the Official Airline of the Asian Art Museum.

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