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Tag Archives: Buddha
Book Art at Family Art Labs!
Last weekend we hosted our December Family Art Lab focusing on the art of books and their importance in Tibetan Culture. We began with an exploration of the exhibition, All-Knowing Buddha: A Secret Guide, focusing on a set of 54 paintings … Continue reading
Posted in Art Making, Education Center, Exhibitions, Family
Tagged Art, Art Making, book, bookart, bookmaking, books, Buddha, child, children, Education, Education Center, Families, Family, Family Art Labs, family learning, feel deeply, Gallery, kids, look deeply, pop-up, storytelling, Tibet, tibetan
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DIY: Tibetan Prayer Flags for a Harmonious Space!
Prayer flags are believed to bring happiness, long life, and prosperity to those who create them. Let’s make some! Each color has a special meaning: blue/space, white/air, red/fire, green/water, and yellow/earth. Here’s an image of prayer flags hanging from a Buddhist … Continue reading
Posted in Art Making, Education Center, Family, K-12 Schools, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, artmaking, Buddha, Buddhism, Buddhist, child, children, classes, community, Education, Families, Family, family learning, feel deeply, flag, Flags, Gateway to Himalayan Art, kid, kids, look deeply, Mandala, Prayer, prayerflags, Shrine, students, Teachers, Tibet, tibetan, Tradition Transformed
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Creating a Sand Mandala at Family Art Labs!
Last Saturday Family Programs held a very special Family Art Lab where we learned all about mandalas and collaborated to created a giant sand mandala. It was a unique experience for all and I think everyone had a nice take away from the … Continue reading
Posted in Art Making, Family, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, Art Making, Buddha, child, children, Education Center, Families, Family, Family Art Labs, family learning, feel deeply, Gallery, kid, kids, look deeply, Mandala, Mandalas, Painting, sandmandala, storytelling, think deeply, Tradition Transformed
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Losar Family Day!
In early March Family Programs led the Museum in a celebration of Losar, the Tibetan New Year, with our annual Losar Family Day. With its many moving parts, this celebration required participation from nearly every department in the Museum. Because … Continue reading
Posted in Art Making, Education Center, Family, Gallery Tours, Himalayan Art
Tagged Art Making, Buddha, child, children, community, Education, Education Center, Families, Family, family day, Gateway to Himalayan Art, kids, look deeply, Losar, new year, storytelling, tashi delek, teens, think deeply, Tibet, tibetan, Tradition Transformed
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Print, Print, Print! at Saturday Family Art Labs!
The slow days of summer are quickly dwindling down and I cannot think of a better way to have spent a Saturday afternoon than learning about printing in Family Art Labs! We examined both relief printing and woodblock printing (common … Continue reading
Posted in Art Making, Education Center, Family
Tagged Art Making, Buddha, Education, Education Center, Families, Family, Family Art Labs, family learning, feel deeply, Gateway to Himalayan Art, look deeply, Mandala, printing, printmaking, relief printing, think deeply, woodblocks
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Celebrating Holi and Color at Yak Packers!
Each Spring, many Hindus in India and Nepal celebrate the festival of Holi. Holi is a festival of color, celebrating the coming of Spring. This year Holi will fall on Wednesday, March 27th. Here in Family Programs, we decided to … Continue reading
Posted in Art Making, Education Center, Family, Himalayan Art, Museums, Uncategorized
Tagged Art Making, Buddha, color, community, early childhood, Education, Education Center, Family, family learning, feel deeply, finger painting, holi, holi festival, holi nyc, India, Painting, think deeply, yak packers
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Collaborative Sand Mandalas at Family Art Labs!
Nemo who!? Despite blizzard conditions over the weekend, Family Art Labs was in full swing. We had a small, yet brave group of families who trudged through the snow to help us begin the celebration of Losar (the Tibetan New … Continue reading
Posted in Art Making, Education Center, Family, Museums, Uncategorized
Tagged Buddha, drawing, Education, Education Center, Family, Family Art Labs, Gateway to Himalayan Art, look deeply, Losar, Mandala, Mandalas, Sand Mandalas, think deeply, Tibet
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Crossing water
Last Tuesday I traveled from my home in Astoria to P.S. 65 in Staten Island to lead a pre-visit lesson for a group of 1st grade students to help prepare them for their museum visit the following day. That morning … Continue reading
Posted in Himalayan Art, K-12 Schools, Museums, Outreach, Resources, Visitor Experience
Tagged Buddha, parable, pre-visit lessons, river, storytelling, water
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To sleep, perchance to dream…
What do you dream about? Lately at the Rubin Museum, we’ve been thinking a lot about dreams. Our 2011 Brainwave series will focus on the intersection of dreams and prophecy, and our fabulous Producer, Tim McHenry, has collected a number … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibitions, Gallery Tours, Himalayan Art
Tagged Brainwave, Buddha, Dreams, Mahavira
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past, present, future
When we tell students about Buddha Shakyamuni, we often start with his birth and the subsequent prophecy that he will either be a great warrior or a great religious leader. We tell students his father was a warrior, and that … Continue reading
Posted in Art Making, K-12 Schools
Tagged Buddha, Liberty High School, Painting, storytelling, teens, Thinking Through Art
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