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Conversation with the Curator: The Japanese Experience in Early California
Saturday, September 11, 2010 ; 9:00 AM–1:00 PM
$10, pre-registration required (bring your own lunch or purchase at Cafe Asia)
Join Melissa Rinne, Associate Curator of Japanese Art at the Asian Art Museum, on a voyage of the first Japanese envoy to the United States. Rinne will discuss the reception and experience of Japan’s first embassy to a western nation and the experience of subsequent immigrants in California from 1860-1927, as seen in paintings, woodblock prints, journals, and graphic novels. Take a docent tour of the exhibition, Japan’s Early Ambassadors to San Francisco, 1860–1927. Then, discuss classroom applications with Pete Hammer, SFUSD’s History Specialist, and the teachers that created SFUSD’s student blog project that recreated the historic ambassadors’ journey.
Open House for SFUSD Families and Teachers
Sunday, September 19, 2010; 12:00 PM–4:00 PM
Free for SFUSD students, their guardians and teachers (student or teacher ID required)
Did you know that all students enrolled in public schools in the San Francisco Unified School District may always visit the museum for free? SFUSD students, their guardians and teachers are invited to learn about the museum’s school and family programs and resources and enjoy a special program on Korean culture. Taste traditional food, learn Korean dance moves, and play games. Join us for fun art-making activities, docent guided tours of the Korea Gallery, or family storytelling tours with folktales from Korea.
Conversation with the Curator of Beyond Golden Clouds
Saturday, October 23, 2010; 9:30 AM–12:30 PM
$10, pre-registration required
Learn how to read a Japanese screen painting with Melissa Rinne, Associate Curator of Japanese Art at the Asian Art Museum. Rinne will teach you how to discuss the elements of art and principles of design by comparing how artists in Japan have painted screens over the course of 700 years. Apply these new looking strategies on a docent-led tour of the special exhibit Beyond Golden Clouds.
Educator Workshop: Literary Epics, Cautionary Tales, and Storytelling Traditions
Saturday, March 5, 2011; 9:30 AM–1:30 PM
$20, pre-registration required (includes education resources; bring your lunch or purchase at Cafe Asia)
Deepen your students’ understanding of the arts and cultures of Asia through its rich literature and storytelling traditions. Learn about some of Asia’s classic stories, the various functions of storytelling in society, and how these stories are translated into works of art with Asian Art Museum Chief Curator, Dr. Forrest McGill. Watch the art objects come to life during a storytelling tour, and create your own storytelling props based on Asian traditions. You will receive standards-based lesson plans with a CD of images from the museum’s collection for your classroom.
Educator Workshop: Bali: Art, Performance, Ritual
Saturday, April 9, 2011; 9:30 AM–1:30 PM
$20, pre-registration required (includes education resources; bring your lunch or purchase at Cafe Asia)
Join Curator of Southeast Asian Art, Natasha Reichle, as she introduces the traditions of Bali in which visual and performing art and ritual practices are tightly interwoven in a lecture designed for teachers. Explore indigenous and Hindu beliefs as they manifest in art and storytelling and participate in the creation of chanted vocal music called Kecak, led by members of the Balinese performing arts company, Gamelan Sekar Jaya. Listen to traditional Balinese stories and take a docent-led tour of the special exhibition. Participants will receive related lesson plans.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Lead funding for the Asian Art Museum’s Education and Public Programs is provided by the Bank of America Foundation.
Major support provided by the Koret Foundation, Freeman Foundation, Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, and Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation.
AT&T is the 2010 Education sponsor for the Asian Art Museum. Additional support provided by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, MetLife Foundation, Wells Fargo, Louise Rosenberg & Claude Rosenberg Jr. Family Foundation, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, San Francisco Foundation – Shenson Foundation, Mary M. Tanenbaum Fund, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, Louise M. Davies Foundation, Joseph R. McMicking Foundation, Nancy and Stephen Grand Philanthropic Fund, John and Lisa Pritzker Family Fund, Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Philanthropic Fund, Dodge & Cox, and Bingham McCutchen.
   
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