Asian Arts Council Calendar - July 2024 - June 2025 - FY25

Lectures and Study Group meet in Zoom! (most of the time)

1. Lectures, and More

2. Zoom lectures are FREE (for now)! Please encourage friends to join in on these excellent lectures!
   To register, find the date on the calendar of The San Diego Museum of Art. Click here! Once registered, an invitation email will be sent.

3. Saturday, Sep 7,2024 - Jan 5, 2025

    Wonders of Creation: Art, Science & Innovation in the Islamic World
   Exhibition at SDMA - Details

   The exhibition will take you through a book from long ago, and make one wonder! Watch for a bookbinding workshop, and an Arabic rapper on Nov 23rd

   Ladan Akbarnia, Ph.D., Curator

4. Thursday, Oct 31 - 1:00 p.m.

   Blue Gold: The Art and Science of Indigo
   - Details

   Exhibition at The Mingei International Museum, Sep 14, 2024 - Mar 16, 2025 Location, Guest Co-Curated by Barbara Hanson Forsyth and Co-Curated by Emily Hanna. Blue Gold is focused on the intertwined histories of art and science, past and present, addressing some of the most complex challenges of our century. Featuring stunning objects of creative expression, coupled with scientific study and explanation, Mingei’s exhibition will present indigo as a compelling manifestation of art and science.
   
   Indigo—a varied plant family that grows worldwide and the deep, blue dye it produces—has a long and multifaceted history of cultivation, production, and distribution. Blue Gold combines science, craft, and history to explore this color’s complex past and present. Indigo’s beauty and ubiquity have eclipsed the unpleasant realities of its growth and manufacture, including hard labor and pollution, and its association with colonialism and slavery. As a pigment, indigo has been assigned protective properties, healing powers, and dangerous qualities that have shaped its uses in craft and the arts.
   
   The exhibition highlights the roles of botany, chemistry, medicine, ecology, and economics in indigo cultivation. Contemporary craftspeople and artists working with indigo, such as Laura Kina and Porfirio Gutierrez, address questions about the sustainability of indigo, its problematic legacies, and technological alternatives to manual processing.

   Emily Hanna, Ph.D., Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator, Mingei International Museum 

5. Thursday, Jan 30, 2025 - 1:00 p.m.

6. Thursday, Feb 27 - 1:00 p.m.

7. Thursday, Mar 27 - 1:00 p.m.

8. Thursday, Apr 24 - 1:00 p.m.

9. Thursday, May 29 - 1:00 p.m.

10. Thursday, June 26 - 1:00 p.m.