It will be a day filled with clay and play at the Crow Collection of Asian Art in celebration of our newest exhibition, Clay Between Two Seas: From the Abbasid Court to Puebla de los Angeles. Try your hand at creating a pinch pot out of clay, painting a plate reminiscent of Chinese porcelain, and assembling a Talavera tile collage.
Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights that marks the victory of good over evil and commemorates one’s inherent inner light. Join us for an illuminating day filled with activities that play on the dark and the light, including cyanotype prints and kaleidoscope tissue paper collage. Then, enjoy art-making inspired by our newest installation, Abhidnya Ghuge: Flight of the Canyon, created with thousands of woodblock printed paper plates by local contemporary artist, Abhidnya Ghuge.
As 2016 draws to a close and anticipation builds for the holiday season and a new year, join the Crow Collection for a relaxing day focused on you and your wellness. Take an enlightening journey through the Wellness Museum with dance classes, story time yoga, and stress relieving art activities.
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With generous support from the Dallas Women’s Foundation, the Crow Collection will be hosting workshops with local women artists throughout the year. Fill your day with everything female!
Learn about the process of creating batiks from Evie Thompson, a traditional batik Indonesian designer, and make your own henna. Finish off your day hearing from first-generation minority women artists discussing their work and how it has been influenced by their experiences, culture, and heritage.
Don’t forget to purchase a ticket for a Persian miniature family workshop from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm with local artist Nida Bangash!
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Gain a new perspective with workshops, demonstrations, and art activities all centered around our exhibition, Landscape Relativities: The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney.
The exhibition is a collaborative endeavor focused on traditional Chinese brush painting, photographic landscapes, and the imaginative meshing of the two. Stretch and play with the relationship between the media of painting and photography with traditional Chinese brush painting workshops, photo collaging, community cyanotypes, and impermanent landscapes.
As part of our family day activities, come in and experience the interactive installations based on childhood fort building created in the museum’s workshops ( Teen & Public) with local artist Mylan Nguyen. Made of painted silk these sculptural environments will offer the young, and the young at heart, a place to relax, read, draw, and be inspired.
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Take a step back in time to Edo, Japan (present day Tokyo) to a time of peace, prosperity, and booming artistic achievements. Enjoy a sampling of the many art forms one would find in the streets of Edo, including paper making, woodblock printmaking, origami, and etoki or current day kamishibai storytelling. Cap off your day with a screening of the newly released blockbuster, Kubo and the Two Strings, which is set in this exciting period in Japanese history.
The day’s activities are inspired by our current exhibition, Styled with Poise: Figures in Japanese Paintings and Prints.
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