Seminars & Short Courses
People of the Cloth: Attire in East Asia
This free online K-12 educator mini-course will explore traditional outfits worn in East Asia, such as the hanbok (Korea) and the qipao (China). This course, which meets online across two Saturday mornings, gives participants the tools needed to understand, analyze, and teach about garments and their changing roles in East Asian life. It also includes a hands-on demonstration of boro, a form of Japanese stitch work (all registrants will be sent the cloth, the needle, and scissors to participate at home with this hands-on part of the mini-course). The topic of clothes in East Asia can readily be incorporated into numerous K-12 classes, including art, social studies, history, geography, and even STEM classes!