Students gain an appreciation and understanding of art and culture, and build language skills by reading; developing scripts; making choices about gesture, voice, and expression; and performing traditional stories alongside art objects in the Asian Art Museum’s collection galleries.
Learn to fold a paper lotus flower using simple origami techniques.
Students will research objects from the Asian Art Museum’s collection and choose one that they think will earn the most money in the marketplace. Then, they will create a commercial to try to sell their object to the class using evidence as to why the object/idea was considered valuable at the time.
Torma are butter and roasted barley flour sculptures are a uniquely Tibetan concept and are usually made by teams of monks in preparation for a religious festival. Torma sculptures take many forms. Some look like stupas, others take the form of Penden Lhamo’s mule, others look like mandalas, others are abstract floral offerings, others are like flaming daggers. In this activity, students will create a sculpture in the style of a Tibetan torma. Students can take their inspiration from a Tibetan art work they have seen or create their own.
