Members of the Bay Area Filipino community discuss the importance of collecting Philippine art at the Asian Art Museum. View the museum’s new acquisitions of Philippine art in the exhibition, Philippine Art: Collecting Art, Collecting Memories, on view at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco from July 14, 2017 to March 11, 2018.
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In this activity, you will create an art piece inspired by the work of Bernice Bing.
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In this activity, you will explore Bernice Bing’s use of calligraphy in her paintings and then create your own!
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Learn about the form of poetry called the pantoum and then write one of your own!
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The imagery on a samurai’s armor expresses that samurai’s identity and source of inspiration or empowerment. Is there an image you connect with most?
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If you were to design a bronze vessel for a friend who has done something important for you, what shape would you make it? How would you decorate it? Would you use designs like the ones on the bronze vessels in the museum? What would you inscribe on it?
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Tips and resources to inspire sustainable and slow fashion consumption.
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How would you answer Chanel Miller’s “I was, I am, I will be” prompt? Would your answers look like Miller’s, or would they look different?
