MICHIGAN ORIENTAL ART SOCIETY - Our 39th Year
DATE: Sunday, April 18, 2010, 1:30 pm
SITE: St. Johns Hospital – Oakland: Education Center
27351 Dequindre Rd (West side); Madison Heights
(North of 11 Mile Rd • South of 12 Mile
Conveniently located North of I-696 and East of I-75)
Meeting Information: Patricia Beer @ (586) 558-9767
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Next meeting: Sunday, May 16: Mary Brodbeck: Demonstration and lecture on making of moku hanga woodblock prints:
Artist displays her works and members share their contemporary prints.
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Prior meeting:
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"UMMA: Two Exhibitions: Kimono and
Japanese Studio Ceramics"
By Dr. Natsu Oyobe, PhD Research Curator of Asian Art,
University of Michigan Museum of Art. Ann Arbor
We are pleased to have Dr. Natsu Oyobe, Research Curator of Asian Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art give a presentation to the Michigan Oriental Art Society for the first time. Dr. Oyobe will give a PowerPoint presentation with many color images about two exhibitions currently being installed and scheduled to open respectively: May 1, and May 15, 2010: Wrapped in Silk and Gold: A Family Legacy of Twentieth-Century Japanese Kimono May 1–July 25, 2010 ; and Turning Point: Japanese Studio Ceramics in the mid-20th Century May 15–August 8, 2010.
Japan, kimona with overall woven pattern of chrysanthemums, 1930's-1950's, UMMA Gift of Howard & Patricia Yamaguchi
Dr. Oyobe earned her Ph.D. in Japanese art history from the Department of History of Art at the University of Michigan in 2005. In her current position, Dr. Oyobe oversees the care, acquisition, and interpretation of a collection of art Middle East to South, Southeast, and East Asia. Dr. Oyobe’s research interest includes modern and contemporary experimental art in Japan and Korea, tea ceremony practice and textile design in Japan. She is the curator of Wrapped in Silk and Gold: A Family Legacy of the 20th-Century Japanese Kimono and Turning Point: Japanese Studio Ceramics in the Mid-20th Century, opening this May at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
Since in the past we have been fortunate to have seen several major exhibitions of Japanese ceramics, the major emphasis of this presentation will be kimono with many highlights of the Japanese ceramics exhibition. To ignore one or the other is like having to choose between your children, which is your favorite - an impossible task
Wrapped in Silk and Gold presents for the first time the Museum's recently acquired collection of deluxe kimono, haori, obi, and other traditional Japanese women's garments. Dating from the 1930s through the end of the 20th century, these garments trace changing fashions as the function of kimono changed over the course of time, as well as the arc of a woman's lifetime from youth to maturity. The works in the exhibition are the generous gift of the Yamaguchi family, and were made for and worn by a mother and daughter living in Tokyo.
Arakawa Toyoza Plate, Circa 1960, Stoneware with iron and white slip painting.
Contemporary Japanese ceramics are currently highly prized, avidly collected, and frequently exhibited. UMMA became actively engaged with the medium in the 1960s, and thanks to astute acquisitions made with the help of John Stephenson, Catherine B. Heller Professor Emeritus, School of Art and Design, the Museum has a priceless selection of ceramics dating from the 1930s through 1970s by leading figures and “living national treasures” such as Hamada Shôji, Kawai Kanjirô, and Yagi Kazuo. The collection of approximately 50 works offers a focused look at the Japanese studio pottery movement at a moment of exceptional creativity and lasting influence.
Members & Guests are encouraged to bring textiles and ceramics to show and share with the group.
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Saturday April 10: Exploring Indian Cuisine: MOAS members Dinning Social, gather for lunch buffet about 12:50 pm ●
House of India ● (248) 553-8491 ● 28841 Orchard Lake Road, North of 12 Mile & I-696; about 1/2 mile on the left.
Bill Cavers & Larry Hall will help educate novice Indian food consumers about the Indian cuisine.
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Next meeting: Sunday, May 16: Mary Brodbeck: Demonstration and lecture on making of moku hanga woodblock prints:
Artist displays her works and members share their contemporary prints.
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Welcome new member: Ann Warren
