Asian Arts & Culture Center            

Events and Exhibitions

WINTER / SPRING 2013

Colette Fu: We Are Tiger Dragon People
February 7 - March 16
Asian Arts Gallery, Center for the Arts

Artist Talk and Opening Reception: Thursday,
February 7, 7 - 9 p.m.

Dynamic and dangerous, Colette Fu’s pop-up books are anything but child-like. These shifting, stretching collages mark her professional maturation from an amateur photographer to a skilled artist. Through the combination of photography and pop-up paper engineering, Fu creates one-of-a-kind collapsible artist books that reflect ideas on how our selves relate to society today. Fu’s series of pop-up books, drawing on her tribal Chinese heritage and chronicling the 25 ethnic minorities of Yunnan Province, China, eliminate the boundaries between book, installation, photography, craft and sculpture.
Guest Curator: Prof Susan Isaacs.

Admission is free.

Workshop: Paper Arts by Colette Fu - A family activity
Saturday, March 2, 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. (2 sessions)

Join artist and photographer Colette Fu in an engaging hands-on workshop where participants will learn pop-up techniques and make a Snake New Year's card.. Fun for the whole family! REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Each workshop is limited to 25 participants age 8 and over.

*** 1 p.m. session is FULL ***

$10 per participants; $5 for AA&CC members and children of Dual/Family level membership of above. Register by February 25. Call 410-704-2807 for more information.

Shadow Puppet Theatre: The Tiger Tales
Saturday, March 2, 1 p.m. and 3 p.m (two shows).; Center for the Arts Mainstage Theatre

In celebration of the lunar New Year, the Chinese Theatre Works, based in New York, brings its humor-laced shadow puppetry to audiences of all ages. The company blends China's two thousand year history of shadow puppetry with new techniques in its award-winning Tiger Tales, based on popular Chinese folktales and literature. In conjunction with the paper art workshop.

Tickets: $10 general;
$5 AA&CC members, children under 12 and TU students with ID.
410-704-2787; www.tuboxoffice.com

Passage from India: Arts by Siona Benjamin & Maureen Drdak
April 4 - May 11
Center for the Arts Asian Arts Gallery

Artists Talk and Reception: Saturday, April 13, 2 - 4 p.m.

The exhibition features two global artists, Siona Benjamin and Maureen Drdak, both Fulbright Scholars in 2011. Siona Benjamin is a painter originally from Bombay, now living in the US. Her work reflects her background of being brought up Jewish in a predominantly Hindu and Muslim India – a mosaic inspired by both Indian Miniature paintings and Sephardic icons. Maureen Drdak’s work incorporates ancient repoussé techniques transmitted from her Nepali Masters, rich in eastern and western iconographies and cultural paradigms, breaching the boundaries between material realms and practices.

Admission is free.

Asian Arts & Culture Center Center for the Arts, Room 2037 (map) Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Saturday 1 - 4 p.m. (during exhibitions) Phone: 410-704-2807 E-mail: asianarts@towson.edu