Workshops and Classes
Critters!
Zen Painting Workshop for Youth and a Parent/Guardian
Saturday, August 22
10:30 am–2:00 to 2 pm
$30 (for youth only) $50 (for one youth and one adult, each additional child add $15) for museum members, for non-museum members add $17$25 for members and youth participants, $42 for general (includes museum general admission and entry to Lords of the Samurai and special exhibition surcharge); supplies included, bring your own bag lunch.
Space is limited, pre-registration is required: publicprograms@asianart.org or (415) 581-3665.
Using sumi ink and brush create creatures real and imagined. Add facial features and expressions, make your painting come alive. Paint separately or work together as a team to create fantastical critters of all kinds. Kyoto-based artist Michael Hofmann teaches this workshop for youth aged 8 to 12 and their guardians.
Brushpainting Workshop: Zen Painting with Michael Hofmann
Sunday, August 23
10:30 am – 3:00 pm
$40 members, $57 general (includes general admission, entry to Lords of the Samurai, and supplies. Bring your own bag lunch)
Space is limited, pre-registration is required: publicprograms@asianart.org or (415) 581-3665.
Following the tradition of free, effortless, natural Zen paintings, learn to paint with ink and brush, spontaneously creating works of art with deep thoughts and quick artistic impulses. Some of the workshop exercises may be based on the paintings from Lords of the Samurai. Originally from the Bay Area, Michael Hofmann has spent most of the last 35 years as a painter based in Kyoto, where his studies were guided by the master sumi-e painter and Zen priest Jikihara Gyokusei. Hofmann has had solo exhibitions of his work in galleries and museums throughout Japan. This workshop is for beginning and intermediate painters.
Educator Workshop: Lords of the Samurai
Saturday, September 5
9:30 am–2:00 pm
$20 (includes curriculum guide; bring your own lunch).
Pre-registration is required: schools@asianart.org or (415) 581-3697.
Samurai are of high interest to much of our youth, but how well does modern day popular culture accurately reflect the life and values of this warrior class? Gain the knowledge and ideas to capitalize on students’ interest in the samurai to teach about Japan. In this workshop, Dr. Yoko Woodson, the Asian Art Museum’s curator of Japanese art, and Dr. Laura Allen, independent scholar, will explore the values, traditions, and social customs of the samurai through the special exhibition, Lords of the Samurai. Participants will learn how the early role of Samurai as servants to the daimyo (great name) families evolved to become an elite and powerful warrior class, and how their legacy is still alive and well in traditional practices as well as popular interpretations. This event includes lectures, a docent-led tour of the special exhibition, a demonstration of the Japanese sword fighting martial sport, kendo, a discussion of classroom connections, and light refreshments. Teachers will also receive a curriculum guide based on the Asian Art Museum’s Japanese art collection that includes a CD of selected images.
