Asian Art Museum March 2007 Program Calendar

March 2: Art Above the Clouds: Courtly Arts of Edo-Period Japan
Dr. Elizabeth Lillehoj, DePaul University

March 2-4: American Council for Southern Asian Art Symposium (ACSAA)

Friday-Sunday, 8:00 am-5:00 pm (8:00 am-12:00 pm on Sunday), Samsung Hall, $45-85 (includes museum admission). Please note: All attendees to the symposium must be current members of ACSAA Registration is required: www.asianart.org/acsaa.htm or acsaasanfrancisco@gmail.com. The Asian Art Museum is proud to host the thirteenth ACSAA symposium featuring national scholars delivering papers on current topics in South and Southeast Asian Art. The symposium will be enriched by the museum's special exhibition, Princes, Palaces, and Passion: The Art of India's Mewar Kingdom (on view through April 29, 2007), as well as the museum's renowned permanent collection galleries of South and Southeast Asian art.

March 3: Holi!

1:00-4:00 pm, Education Studio & Front Steps. Learn about Holi, the colorful South Asian springtime celebration, with water games and a Krishna focused hands-on activity. This festivity is presented in conjunction with the special exhibition, Princes, Palaces, and Passion: The Art of India's Mewar Kingdom.

March 9: Paintings of Urban Life, Celebrations, and Famous Places
Dr. Laura Allen, Instructor of Record

March 10: Workshop: Tea Ceremony for Beginners

Saturday, 10:15-12:00 pm, Education Resource Room, $5 members, $17 general (includes museum admission). Space limited, advance registration suggested Tickets available beginning February 10: www.asianart.org or Admissions Desk Teachers in the Omotesenke tradition will lead this workshop in which participants will try their hand at arranging flowers for the tea ceremony and whisking a bowl of tea. Tea programs sponsored by Ito-En.

March 16: Amateurs, Professionals, and Eccentrics in 18th Century Kyoto
Dr. Laura Allen, Instructor of Record

March 23: What Becomes a Woman Most? Defining Female Beauty in Edo Period Japan
Dr. Laura Allen, Instructor of Record

March 29: Lecture on Indian Textiles by Rahul Jain

Thursday, 7:00 pm, Samsung Hall, FREE with museum admission. Rahul Jain is a textile researcher with a special interest in the history and practice of pattern weaving. Formerly an economist with the World Bank, Washington DC, he now runs a drawloom-weaving workshop in India to recreate the style, material, and technique of complex silks woven for the courts of Mughal India and Safavid Iran in the 17th and 18th centuries. Jain will focus his talk on the textiles pictured in the paintings featured in the museum's exhibition, Princes, Palaces, and Passion: The Art of India's Mewar Kingdom; such pictorial sources are inspiration for the designs created in his workshop today. The woven textiles from his workshop have been showcased at the National Museum, New Delhi; the Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai; the Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta; and the British Museum, London. Cosponsored with the Society for Art and Culture of India (SACHI).

March 30: The Art of Bamboo: Approaches to the Lloyd Cotsen Collection of Japanese
Baskets Melissa Rinne, Asian Art Museum

By www.asianart.org