ImaginAsia: Beautifully Bound
Learn about the exhibition Hand-Held: The Gerhard Pulverer Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books with help from an activity guide. Then, create your own Japanese book. Choose copies of folios from the Pulverer collection that feature scenes of springtime and cherry blossoms. Use elegant handmade papers for your cover and tanzaku slips for your title, and then bind them together with a traditional Japanese sewing technique.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: One Man's Search for Ancient China: The Paul Singer Collection.
Saturday, June 1, 2013, 2:00 PM.
ImaginAsia: Beautifully Bound
Learn about the exhibition Hand-Held: The Gerhard Pulverer Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books with help from an activity guide. Then, create your own Japanese book. Choose copies of folios from the Pulverer collection that feature scenes of springtime and cherry blossoms. Use elegant handmade papers for your cover and tanzaku slips for your title, and then bind them together with a traditional Japanese sewing technique.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: One Man's Search for Ancient China: The Paul Singer Collection.
Sunday, June 2, 2013, 2:00 PM.
ImaginAsia: Children's Toys?
In One Man’s Search for Ancient China: The Paul Singer Collection, use an activity guide to explore the exhibition. Discover mysterious miniature objects created in China hundreds of years ago. In the classroom, make your own miniature clay person, animal, or object to take home.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: One Man's Search for Ancient China: The Paul Singer Collection.
Saturday, June 15, 2013, 2:00 PM.
ImaginAsia: Children's Toys?
In One Man’s Search for Ancient China: The Paul Singer Collection, use an activity guide to explore the exhibition. Discover mysterious miniature objects created in China hundreds of years ago. In the classroom, make your own miniature clay person, animal, or object to take home.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: One Man's Search for Ancient China: The Paul Singer Collection.
Sunday, June 16, 2013, 2:00 PM.
ImaginAsia: Children's Toys?
In One Man’s Search for Ancient China: The Paul Singer Collection, use an activity guide to explore the exhibition. Discover mysterious miniature objects created in China hundreds of years ago. In the classroom, make your own miniature clay person, animal, or object to take home.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: One Man's Search for Ancient China: The Paul Singer Collection.
Saturday, July 6, 2013, 2:00 PM.
ImaginAsia: Children's Toys?
In One Man’s Search for Ancient China: The Paul Singer Collection, use an activity guide to explore the exhibition. Discover mysterious miniature objects created in China hundreds of years ago. In the classroom, make your own miniature clay person, animal, or object to take home.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: One Man's Search for Ancient China: The Paul Singer Collection.
Sunday, July 7, 2013, 2:00 PM.
ImaginAsia: Beautifully Bound
Learn about the exhibition Hand-Held: The Gerhard Pulverer Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books with help from an activity guide. Then, create your own Japanese book. Choose copies of folios from the Pulverer collection that feature scenes of springtime and cherry blossoms. Use elegant handmade papers for your cover and tanzaku slips for your title, and then bind them together with a traditional Japanese sewing technique.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: One Man's Search for Ancient China: The Paul Singer Collection.
Saturday, July 13, 2013, 2:00 PM.
ImaginAsia: Beautifully Bound
Learn about the exhibition Hand-Held: The Gerhard Pulverer Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books with help from an activity guide. Then, create your own Japanese book. Choose copies of folios from the Pulverer collection that feature scenes of springtime and cherry blossoms. Use elegant handmade papers for your cover and tanzaku slips for your title, and then bind them together with a traditional Japanese sewing technique.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: One Man's Search for Ancient China: The Paul Singer Collection.
Sunday, July 14, 2013, 2:00 PM.
ImaginAsia: Beautifully Bound
Learn about the exhibition Hand-Held: The Gerhard Pulverer Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books with help from an activity guide. Then, create your own Japanese book. Choose copies of folios from the Pulverer collection that feature scenes of springtime and cherry blossoms. Use elegant handmade papers for your cover and tanzaku slips for your title, and then bind them together with a traditional Japanese sewing technique.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: One Man's Search for Ancient China: The Paul Singer Collection.
Saturday, July 20, 2013, 2:00 PM.
ImaginAsia: Beautifully Bound
Learn about the exhibition Hand-Held: The Gerhard Pulverer Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books with help from an activity guide. Then, create your own Japanese book. Choose copies of folios from the Pulverer collection that feature scenes of springtime and cherry blossoms. Use elegant handmade papers for your cover and tanzaku slips for your title, and then bind them together with a traditional Japanese sewing technique.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: One Man's Search for Ancient China: The Paul Singer Collection.
Sunday, July 21, 2013, 2:00 PM.
ImaginAsia: Soaring Phoenixes
Explore the mythology and symbolism surrounding phoenixes in Chinese art, as seen in objects in the Freer Gallery’s collection and interpreted by contemporary artist Xu Bing in the exhibition Nine Deaths, Two Births. Later, fly a phoenix kite on the National Mall. Kites and instruction provided.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Nine Deaths, Two Births: Xu Bing's Phoenix Project.
Saturday, July 27, 2013, 2:00 PM.
ImaginAsia: Soaring Phoenixes
Explore the mythology and symbolism surrounding phoenixes in Chinese art, as seen in objects in the Freer Gallery’s collection and interpreted by contemporary artist Xu Bing in the exhibition Nine Deaths, Two Births. Later, fly a phoenix kite on the National Mall. Kites and instruction provided.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Nine Deaths, Two Births: Xu Bing's Phoenix Project.
Sunday, July 28, 2013, 2:00 PM.
Anime: Young Artists Residency
Study the art of anime and manga drawing in this intensive five-day course taught by an artist and focusing on the Sackler exhibition Hand-Held: Gerhard Pulverer's Japanese Illustrated Books. In addition to developing their formal drawing skills, participants learn how to design characters and create narratives. For ages 9–18.
Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Registration fee: $100. Students provide their own lunch and snacks. Apply online.
Monday, July 29, 2013, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM.
Anime: Young Artists Residency
Study the art of anime and manga drawing in this intensive five-day course taught by an artist and focusing on the Sackler exhibition Hand-Held: Gerhard Pulverer's Japanese Illustrated Books. In addition to developing their formal drawing skills, participants learn how to design characters and create narratives. For ages 9–18.
Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Registration fee: $100. Students provide their own lunch and snacks. Apply online.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM.
Anime: Young Artists Residency
Study the art of anime and manga drawing in this intensive five-day course taught by an artist and focusing on the Sackler exhibition Hand-Held: Gerhard Pulverer's Japanese Illustrated Books. In addition to developing their formal drawing skills, participants learn how to design characters and create narratives. For ages 9–18.
Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Registration fee: $100. Students provide their own lunch and snacks. Apply online.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM.
Anime: Young Artists Residency
Study the art of anime and manga drawing in this intensive five-day course taught by an artist and focusing on the Sackler exhibition Hand-Held: Gerhard Pulverer's Japanese Illustrated Books. In addition to developing their formal drawing skills, participants learn how to design characters and create narratives. For ages 9–18.
Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Registration fee: $100. Students provide their own lunch and snacks. Apply online.
Thursday, August 1, 2013, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM.
Anime: Young Artists Residency
Study the art of anime and manga drawing in this intensive five-day course taught by an artist and focusing on the Sackler exhibition Hand-Held: Gerhard Pulverer's Japanese Illustrated Books. In addition to developing their formal drawing skills, participants learn how to design characters and create narratives. For ages 9–18.
Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Registration fee: $100. Students provide their own lunch and snacks. Apply online.
Friday, August 2, 2013, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM.
Claymation: Young Artists Residency
Young artists explore the Freer and Sackler Galleries to find an extraordinary character struggling to break out of the confines of a display case. These figures become the heroes of the claymation videos that participants create during this five-day residency. In the classroom, Erik Swanson, an instructor at the Corcoran School of Art + Design, teaches storyboarding, scene design, and claymation techniques used to shoot the videos. Participants receive a DVD featuring all of the videos produced during the class. For ages 9–18.
Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Registration fee: $75. Students provide their own lunch and snacks. Application will be posted soon.
Monday, August 5, 2013, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM.
Claymation: Young Artists Residency
Young artists explore the Freer and Sackler Galleries to find an extraordinary character struggling to break out of the confines of a display case. These figures become the heroes of the claymation videos that participants create during this five-day residency. In the classroom, Erik Swanson, an instructor at the Corcoran School of Art + Design, teaches storyboarding, scene design, and claymation techniques used to shoot the videos. Participants receive a DVD featuring all of the videos produced during the class. For ages 9–18.
Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Registration fee: $75. Students provide their own lunch and snacks. Application will be posted soon.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM.
Claymation: Young Artists Residency
Young artists explore the Freer and Sackler Galleries to find an extraordinary character struggling to break out of the confines of a display case. These figures become the heroes of the claymation videos that participants create during this five-day residency. In the classroom, Erik Swanson, an instructor at the Corcoran School of Art + Design, teaches storyboarding, scene design, and claymation techniques used to shoot the videos. Participants receive a DVD featuring all of the videos produced during the class. For ages 9–18.
Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Registration fee: $75. Students provide their own lunch and snacks. Application will be posted soon.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM.
Claymation: Young Artists Residency
Young artists explore the Freer and Sackler Galleries to find an extraordinary character struggling to break out of the confines of a display case. These figures become the heroes of the claymation videos that participants create during this five-day residency. In the classroom, Erik Swanson, an instructor at the Corcoran School of Art + Design, teaches storyboarding, scene design, and claymation techniques used to shoot the videos. Participants receive a DVD featuring all of the videos produced during the class. For ages 9–18.
Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Registration fee: $75. Students provide their own lunch and snacks. Application will be posted soon.
Thursday, August 8, 2013, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM.
Claymation: Young Artists Residency
Young artists explore the Freer and Sackler Galleries to find an extraordinary character struggling to break out of the confines of a display case. These figures become the heroes of the claymation videos that participants create during this five-day residency. In the classroom, Erik Swanson, an instructor at the Corcoran School of Art + Design, teaches storyboarding, scene design, and claymation techniques used to shoot the videos. Participants receive a DVD featuring all of the videos produced during the class. For ages 9–18.
Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Registration fee: $75. Students provide their own lunch and snacks. Application will be posted soon.
Friday, August 9, 2013, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM.