As part of the museum’s Japanese arts series, the founder of the Bonsai Society of Lakeland will be presenting a free bonsai lecture and display on Saturday, April 17 at 1:00 p.m. The bonsai display will be up all day Saturday.
Plus: Kimono, Woodblock Prints, & Ceramics!
Japanese Textiles & Prints
Polk Museum of Art
April 10 – June 27, 2010
Dorothy Jenkins Gallery
RECEPTION: Friday, April 9, 6:00 – 8:30pm. Featuring a lecture at 6pm by Jason Steuber, Cofrin Curator of Asian Art at the Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville. Free for Museum Members, $10 Non-Members.
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Polk Museum of Art is home to a small, but beautiful, collection of Japanese textiles and prints, including several kimonos that were donated in 2006. This exhibition will include a few of those, as well as Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s master woodblock print series 32 Aspects of Women.
There is another Japanese exhibit there at the same time, Functional Ceramics: European and Japanese – highlighting Japanese and European ceramics to address Japan’s greater focus on form versus Europe’s greater focus on surface decoration. The ceramics exhibit runs until July 18.
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I went to the exhibit opening. John’s (and Sue’s) bonsai looked fabulous! There were about 7 kimono in the exhibit including one very fancy wedding kimono, two others with gold embroidery, and a young boy’s “baptismal” kimono. There were also several haori (kimono jackets), a couple yukata (summer kimono), and one really nice obi belt. The woodblock prints are exceptional as well. I highly recommend the exhibit and encourage you all to go out and support John’s presentation!
~Esther
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