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—— Current Exhibition ——

Clothing and Ornaments of The Miao People From The Collection of the Chojun Textile and Quilt Art Museum
March 28 -- August 29, 2008

The clothing and ornaments of the Miao people (one of China’s national minorities) have been lent to the Lentz Center by the Chojun Textile Art Museum in honor of the opening of the new building of the International Quilt Study Center.

 

 

 
 

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Object Labels: Sitar (detail), India, early 20th c., Mixed Media, Gift of Donald and Velma Lentz; Brush Painted Pottery Bowl with Stem, China, Earthenware, Neolithic 4th millennium B.C.E (Majiayao Culture), Gift of Kam-ching Leun and Yvonne Norton Leung; Meiping, ChinaCeramic with Flambe Glaze, Qianlong period (1736 - 1796), Gift of Isabella Threlkeld; Seated Budda, Cambodia, Bronze, 12th - 13th c., Gift of Cliff and Mary Hillegass; Horse and Rider, China, Earthenware, Han Dynasty (206 B.C. - 220 A.D.) Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Robert Lee; Ginger Jar, China, Glass, 19th c. Gift of Sandford and Ina Gadient.


The Lentz Center for Asian Culture is an affiliate of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts.





artistic traditions of Tantric Bud

dhism, painting with colored sand is one of the most unique and exquisite. Millions of grains of sand are painstakingly laid into place on a flat platform over a period of days or weeks to form the image of a mandala. To date the monks have created mandala sand paintings in more than 100 museums, art centers, colleges and universities in the United States aope.