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Programs and Tours   May 18 Isamu Noguchi / Qi Baishi / Beijing 1930 Saturday, May 18, 8:30 am Helmut Stern Auditorium In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930, UMMA presents a one-day symposium on the significance and legacy of the creative relationship between the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi and the Chinese ink painter Qi Baishi. As Noguchi’s Peking Drawings from this period dramatically demonstrate, this collaboration was far more complex and unpredictable than can be understood by the over-determined binary framework of Japonisme in Euro-America and the Westernization of culture in East Asia. The drawings are one striking manifestation of the broad range of encounters between different positions within and beyond modern Asian visual cultures that proliferated throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This symposium will bring together an impressive group of scholars of Asian art history to explore a diverse range of inventions catalyzed by modern encounters such as that between Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi in Beijing in 1930. Participants in the symposium include David Clarke (University of Hong Kong), Bert Winther-Tamaki (University of California, Irvine), Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (Director of the Frye Art Museum), and Kuiyi Shen (University of California, San Diego). 8:30 am to 5 pm Schedule: 8:30 – 9:30 Coffee/tea 9:30 – 9:45 Welcome remarks Joseph Rosa (Director, UMMA) Jenny Dixon (Director, The Noguchi Museum) 9:45-10:00 Introduction to the exhibition Isamu Noguchi/Qi Baishi/Beijing 1930 Natsu Oyobe (UMMA) 10:00 – 11:15 Session 1 Artistic Encounters between China and the West from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century David Clarke (University of Hong Kong) Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (Frye Art Museum) Response by Celeste Brusati (University of Michigan) 11:15 – 11:30 break 11:30 – 12:45 Session 2 Untangling a "Hairy" Encounter: Making Sense of Ainu Representation at the World's Fair Christina Spiker (University of California – Irvine) Artists Abroad East and West: Some Early Twentieth Century Encounters Jason Steuber (Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida) Response by Kevin Carr (University of Michigan) 12:45 – 2:30 Lunch and exhibition viewing 2:30 – 3:45 Session 3 Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor's Brush with Ink Bert Winther-Tamaki (University of California – Irvine) Invention of "Traditional" and "International" in Post-World War Two Japanese Ceramics: the Picasso Boom and Koyama Fujio Yasuko Tsuchikane (Parsons The New School for Design) Response by Alex Potts (University of Michigan) 3:45 – 4:15 Coffee/tea break 4:15– 5:00 Discussion moderated by Bert Winther-Tamaki Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930 is organized by the University of Michigan Museum of Art in collaboration with The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York. Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute and the Blakemore Foundation. categories: Exhibitions Related Program, Special Events Saturday, May 18, 11:15 am Children ages four to seven are invited to hear a story in the galleries. Student docents and UMMA staff will bring art to life as they read stories related to the art on display and invite responses from our youngest patrons. Each story is followed by a short art activity. Parents must accompany children. Siblings are welcome to join the group. Meet at the Information Desk. categories: Family, Gallery Talks and Tours Ann Arbor Art Center Workshops at UMMA Saturday, May 18, 1 pm $30 UMMA and AAAC members and UM students/$38 non-members; materials included. Advance registration required by Wednesday, May 15. Register online at annarborartcenter.org. Take a closer look at UMMA’s noteworthy architecture in this see and sketch workshop with teaching artist Erika Villarreal Bunce. Tour the buildings, inside and out, and learn about the history, aesthetics, and purpose of architecture as an art form. Discover how to make empirical and gestural perspective drawings on vellum paper and translate the visitor experience into a work of art. categories: Artmaking May 19 Guided Tour Sunday, May 19, 1 pm UMMA docents will guide visitors through the galleries on tours as diverse as their interests and areas of expertise. Each docent plans a theme and includes a variety of styles and media to illuminate his or her ideas. Themes may be repeated but each docent's approach and choice of objects is unique. categories: Gallery Talks and Tours Guided Tour Sunday, May 19, 2 pm Thangkas are portable religious paintings on cloth featuring colorful images of Buddha and Buddhist deities. Such works served as didactic devices and aided devotees in their religious practice. Docents will guide visitors to an understanding of the rich iconography and the colorful images that make these fascinating objects to study. This exhibition features objects from the Walter Norman Koelz Collection of Himalayan Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology. categories: Gallery Talks and Tours May 26 Guided Tour Sunday, May 26, 1 pm UMMA docents will guide visitors through the galleries on tours as diverse as their interests and areas of expertise. Each docent plans a theme and includes a variety of styles and media to illuminate his or her ideas. Themes may be repeated but each docent's approach and choice of objects is unique. categories: Gallery Talks and Tours Guided Tour Sunday, May 26, 2 pm This exhibition will shed new light on the transformative relationship between American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) and Chinese ink painter Qi Baishi (1864–1957). In 1930 Noguchi spent six months in Beijing, where he met and studied with the renowned Chinese brush-and-ink painter Qi Baishi, an experience that greatly affected his creative vision. UMMA docents will explore the artists' cross-cultural creative impulses and their respective and lasting influences on worldwide contemporary practice. categories: Gallery Talks and Tours |
