 | Lectures & Special Events
March 3, 2012
- Member Road Trip -
CU Art Museum Boulder
Korean Contemporary Art
 Curator and Assistant Professor of Art History at CU Boulder, J P Park will lead a tour of the current exhibition at the CU Art Museum.
This exhibition comments on the contemporary state of South Korean art by offering a unique and unprecedented opportunity to experience new art forms pioneered by emerging Korean artists working in Seoul, New York, and Europe. Featured works will challenge existing stereotypes about Asian art and thus break new ground for understanding diversity within Asia and new, shared experiences across the world. In our attempts to understand differences between cultures, the similarities and social common denominators found in cultures East and West have often been overlooked, and they are often completely disregarded in artistic discourses.
_Following the tour, lunch will be arranged at a local Korean restaurant, A Cup of Peace, in Boulder. Restaurant address: 3216 Arapahoe Ave # B, Boulder, CO. It is located on the south side of Arapahoe across from the Pelanton Condo project. Lunch is optional. Please mention lunch attendance when RSVPing.
Art credit: Untying Space_CU Art Museum, 2012. ©Sun K. Kwak, Photography credit: Jeff Wells / ©CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
Time: Saturday @ Noon
Logistics: RSVP required; call 720-913-0040 or email blittle@denverartmuseum.org Deadline for RSVP February 29th.
We will meet at the museum, but carpooling may be available for those traveling from Denver. Please email Beverly Little when RSVPing to discuss possible carpool options.
Museum & Tour admission fees: Complimentary to AAA members; DAM staff, teachers, & students: $5; All others: $10. Additional cost for lunch.
April 11-14, 2012
- Lecture & Workshops -
Sumi-e: Traditions and Anticipation
Shuzo Sato
 Shozo Sato, a recipient of the Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Emperor of Japan, has spent his lifetime both in teaching and creating Japanese Traditional Arts. The lecture on Wednesday, April 11th, will encompass the various aspects of traditional black ink painting down through the ages and the new directions being taking in contemporary Sumi-e. . Among his many publications is his latest book, Sumi-e: The Art of Japanese Ink Painting - Tuttle Publishing 2010. He is founding director of the Japan House, University of Illinois.
- Click here for information on the 3-day Sumi-e workshop April 12-14 -
Photo credit: Shuzo Sato
Time: Lecture - Noon-1pm on Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Time: Workshop - 10am-4:30pm Thursday through Saturday, April 12-14, 2012
Location: Lecture - C-Level Lecture Room, North Building, Denver Art Museum
Location: Workshop - C-Level Art Studio Classroom
Lecture pricing: AAA members: free, Teachers & Students: $5, DAM members: $7, and all others: $10.
Workshop pricing: AAA members: $300; teachers, students, & DAM members: $320; and all others: $350.
RSVP required with prepayment for workshop. A non-refundable deposit of $50 will hold your reservation until payment in full.
Workshop reservation deadline: April 3, 2012.
Workshop size: maximum 15 students.
April 18, 2012
- Lecture -
Once the Buddha Was a Monkey: The Many Lives of the Buddha in the Early Buddhist Art of India
Dr. Susan Huntington
 Buddhists believe in samsara, that is, an almost endless succession of incarnations through which they must go until they reach the final goal of perfect enlightenment. Although ordinary humans cannot remember their past lives, the historical Buddha, in his omniscience, not only remembered his own but revealed them to his followers as lessons in moral and ethical piety. This lecture looks at representations of some of the Buddha's animal incarnations, which he took prior to his human lives, focusing primarily on the early Buddhist art of India (ca. 1st century BCE through 1st century CE). Rather than serving as simple biography, these charming stories teach the Buddha's followers how to live exemplary lives.
 Susan L. Huntington, Ph.D., is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at The Ohio State University in Columbus. A specialist in the art of South Asia, her main publications include The Art of Ancient India (with contributions by John C. Huntington), The Pala-Sena Schools of Sculpture, and Leaves From the Bodhi Tree (with John C. Huntington). Her work on the early Buddhist art of India, published in several articles and a forthcoming book, has stimulated considerable debate and discussion within the academic community. Over the course of her career, Dr. Huntington has received many awards and grants from prestigious sources such as the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright Award program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Smithsonian Institution. For the 2011-2012 academic year, Dr. Huntington is a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton on a fellowship funded by the Mellon Foundation.
Photo 1: Sculpture showing one of the past lives of the Buddha, when he was king of a tribe of monkeys. From India, ca. 2nd century BCE. Photo credit: Eric Huntington
Photo 2: Susan Huntington. Photo credit: The Huntington Archive
Wednesday @ Noon: Noon-1pm
C-Level Lecture Room, North Building, Denver Art Museum
Reservations suggested; call 720-913-0040 or email blittle@denverartmuseum.org. Pay at the door. AAA members: free; DAM Staff, Teachers & Students: $5; and all others: $10.
May 3-6, 2012
- Travel -
Boston Trip
Save the Dates! Curator Ron Otsuka will be leading a tour with the Asian Art Association to Boston. We will be visiting numerous museums including the Museum of Fine Arts, the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem Massachusetts, plus fantastic behind-the-scenes tours of private collections. More information to come soon.
Time: TBA
Logistics: TBA
May 20, 2012
Annual Meeting, Luncheon, & Silent Auction
Save the Dates! More information to come soon.
Time: TBA
Logistics: TBA
May 30, 2012
- Lecture -
Indian Religious Textiles: The Pichwai and Kalamkari Narratives and Ceremonial Traditions
Saroj Merani
 India has a great tradition of storytelling on cloth with many narrative traditions that are rooted in religious belief and a deep wellspring of mythology, ritual, and ceremony. The illustrated talk focuses on the painted kalamkaris of Andhra Pradesh and the Srinathji pichwais of the temple town of Nathdwara in Rajasthan. While kalamkari art draws upon myths associated with the major deities in the Hindu pantheon as well as stories from the great Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the Nathdwara pichwais, on the other hand, are devoted exclusively to the narrative and worship of Krishna. An intrinsic part of religious ritual and ceremony,  and intended to inspire devotion and a reverence for the sacred principles of life, the religious textiles of India and the stories they narrate are part of its collective consciousness and belief system. The talk will also discuss the continuing relevance of these religious textiles in contemporary Indian life. Saroj Merani is currently senior faculty, Journalism, at Xavier Institute of Communications in Mumbai where she instructs graduate students in film studies, literature, and the arts. Previously, Ms. Merani was the Program and Cultural Advisor at the American Cultural Center in Mumbai. She continues to be fascinated by Indian mythology, folklore, and narratives.
Images: 1 & 2 Indian Religious Textiles, 3 Saroj Merani. Photo credit: Pratibha Gurnani
Time: Wednesday @ Noon: Noon-1pm
Location: Sharp Auditorium, Hamilton Building, Denver Art Museum
Reservations suggested; call 720-913-0040 or email blittle@denverartmuseum.org. Pay at the door. AAA members: free, Teachers & Students: $5, and all others: $10.
To see a list of past Asian Art Association events, please click here.
Special Asian Art Exhibitions at the DAM
Current:
Texture & Tradition: Japanese Woven Bamboo
Opens: July 31, 2011
Walter + Mona Lutz Gallery
Level 5, North Building
Blue and White: A Ceramic Journey
Opens: June 12, 2011
Level 5, North Building
Curator Ron Otsuka at the entrance to the Blue and White exhibit.
Engi by Tatsuo Miyajima
October 7, 2006
Atrium, Level 1, Hamilton Building
For reservations, please call 720-913-0040. Please send your reservation check to DAM/AAA, 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204.
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