Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Wild Moon<\/p>\n
Gosh, my numbers have shrunk this last week.\u00a0 I know I’ve neglected this space in an attempt to keep up with other blogging, like the Sierra Club and the Star Tribune weather site and I apologize.<\/p>\n
Not to mention that I fell into a bit of a slump with the retreat followed by vertigo and a week of feeling sub-par after that.\u00a0 No excuses, just the truth, Ruth.<\/p>\n
This morning finds me once again alert and awake, feeling on top of my game.\u00a0 ‘Bout time, if you asked me.<\/p>\n
Today the textile tour for Anne will come together, aided in part by an insight I got yesterday at the research workshop.\u00a0 I learned about the directories function on the MIA website.\u00a0 It shows a complete list of objects on display by type, artist and location.\u00a0 This makes it easy to plan a tour route knowing exactly what’s on exhibit.\u00a0 No time wasting trying to figure it out.\u00a0 The information is just there.<\/p>\n
The On Dragon’s Wings tour for Friday will also get assembled today.\u00a0 I have an 8 dynasties tour, an idea created by Bob Marshall.\u00a0 In this tour I go through the Shang, Zhou, Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties using one object from each.\u00a0 As Bob suggested, I try to select the finest example of the most well-developed art form in each of those dynasties.\u00a0 That means starting with the bronze vessels of the Shang and Zhou, moving to a Han ceramic piece, perhaps then to a Tang three-color glaze, then either a Song dynasty landscape painting or a ceramic piece, for example.<\/p>\n
I have dynastic maps and a precis\u2019 of the dynasties character.\u00a0 This allows for a quick over view of Chinese history and associating with each dynasty a particular art form, one that reached its height at some point during that dynastic period.<\/p>\n
At 5 p.m. Kate and I will head out to Roseville for another Chinese New Year celebration with the Collection in Focus guides.\u00a0 I look forward to this each year because it is often the only time I see some of my old colleagues from that program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Wild Moon Gosh, my numbers have shrunk this last week.\u00a0 I know I’ve neglected this space in an attempt to keep up with other blogging, like the Sierra Club and the Star Tribune weather site and I apologize. Not to mention that I fell into a bit of a slump with the retreat … Continue reading I’m Baaaack!<\/span>