Southeast Asia

Students will draw their favorite unlikely, small hero from the Philippine folk tale “Odon the Giant.”

Create a colorful, mixed media painting inspired by artist Pacita Abad.

The most famous region for the manufacture and trade of golden jewelry lay in Sumatra’s northernmost province of Aceh, where these finely worked bracelets were produced. Make your own bracelets inspired by Indonesian jewelry.

The Chinese Zodiac is based on a twelve-year cycle and each year is linked to an animal. Find your birth year and color in your zodiac animal.

Islam has been an important cultural force in much of Asia for more than five hundred years, and in some parts for more than a thousand. Today, far more Muslims live in other parts of Asia than in the Arab areas of Asia such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.

Asian Art Museum Storyteller, Miriam Mills, tells the story of Rangda, the Balinese witch.

Carlos Villa Biography and Lesson Plans

Monica Desai tells a story about Narasimha, an incarnation of the Hindu deity Vishnu.

Discover how even little guys can overcome a giant in this Philippine story told by Asian Art Museum storyteller, Ann Riley.