Workshops
In Prints: Japanese Art and Culture
The Colby College Museum of Art, the Five College Center for East Asian Studies, and the Friends of Aomori invite K-12 in-service educators to join us for a professional development workshop on Japanese print making.
The workshop will include scholar Ankeney Weitz, Ziskind Professor of East Asian Studies and Art; Chair of East Asian Studies at Colby College, discussing the history of Japanese printmaking; group tours of the Colby College printmaking studio and a related print exhibition at the Colby College Museum of Art; Alison Johnson, Director of School Programs at Island Readers and Writers on Visual Thinking Strategies and the Whole Book Approach (using Freeman Book Award winners); and a hands-on printmaking activity.