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| Ancient Vietnam: Ports of Call |
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| Asia Society
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A video showing the objects in “Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea,” narrated by the curator. "This exhibition brings together more than one hundred objects from ten museums across the diverse geographic expanse that is Viet Nam to illuminate the country’s long history of cultural and economic exchange... As long as two thousand years ago, a maritime trade route extended from southern China to Roman-controlled ports in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, via ports in what is now northern Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Iran. As a result of this exchange, Vietnam developed unique art objects with connections to China, India, and other cultures of Southeast Asia… The exhibition focuses on four areas and ports of call: 1) Early Cultures: Dong Son and Sa Huynh; 2) Fu Nan in the Mekong River Delta; 3) Coastal Kingdoms of Champa; 4) Trade and Exchange in Hoi An.” This was a trade in luxury goods, where merchants had to follow the monsoon winds sailing east and west. See also: Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Go to Museum Resource: https://asiasociety.org/video/ancient-viet-nam-ports-call-complete | |
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| Art Access: Art of India, Himalayas, and Southeast Asia |
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| The Art Institute of Chicago
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This introduction to the art of South and Southeast Asia features 15 representative objects (mostly Hindu and Buddhist sculptures) from the Art Institute's collection. The objects have good descriptive text with links to an excellent glossary and maps. The site also includes four lesson plans (specifically for grade levels 1-3, 4-8, 7-8, and 9-12, but adaptable for all age groups). Each lesson plan includes a list of the fulfilled Illinois Learning Standards for that plan, and the lesson plan Divine Faith Discussion lists some Buddhist, Hindu, and Islamic places of worship in the Chicago area. There is also a Family Activities section (with hands-on activities for younger children) and a bibliography of books and media.
Go to Museum Resource: https://archive.artic.edu/indian/ | |
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| The Art of South and Southeast Asia |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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An illustrated 156-page teacher's guide that can be downloaded in .pdf format, either in its entirety or by chapter. Includes historical introductions to South and Southeast Asia, as well as chapters on artists and materials, religious context, and Muslim and Hindu art. Also includes a timeline, map, glossary, list of resources, activities and a lesson plan, and specific artworks with descriptions.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/learn/educators/curriculum-resources/the-art-of-south... | |
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| The Arts of Thailand |
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| Victoria and Albert Museum
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An introduction to the V&A's new Arts of Thailand exhibit, which "features the museum's finest Thai Buddhist sculptures in bronze and stone spanning the period from the 7th to the 19th centuries, together with works of decorative art in a wide variety of media associated both with the Thai court and with monasteries." Thirty-eight objects are featured online; all objects have descriptions.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/the-arts-of-thailand/ | |
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| The Ban Chiang Project |
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| University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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"Scientific excavation by the Penn Museum and the Thai Fine Arts Department took place at the site of Ban Chiang in northeast Thailand in 1974 and 1975. These excavations uncovered a thriving and hitherto unknown prehistoric culture dating from 5000 years ago and led to the rewriting of Southeast Asian prehistory. The Metal Age village and mortuary site of Ban Chiang is in the province of Udon Thani in northeastern Thailand. The Ban Chiang Project's studies cover the Inital Period of occupation (? - 2100 BCE) to the Late Period (300 BCE - 200 CE). "Ban Chiang is a village/mortuary site in northern northeast Thailand, in the province of Udon Thani. Excavated by Chet Gorman of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and Pisit Charoenwongsa of the Thai Fine Arts Department in 1974-1975, this extraordinary site was among the first to establish the existence not only of a hitherto unknown prehistoric culture, but also of a separate bronze age in Southeast Asia." See the FINDINGS section for descriptions and images of the many objects excavated from this site.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.penn.museum/research/projects-researchers/asian-section/110-ban-chi... | |
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| The Birth of Islam |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A brief introduction to the rise and spread of Islam and the formation of an Islamic artistic language. With images of 5 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/isla/hd_isla.htm | |
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| Celebrate Cambodian Khmer Festival and Wedding Music |
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| Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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Through active listening, discussions of cultural context, and re-creating ostinati and pentatonic melodies, students will experience two contrasting examples of the music of the Khmer people of Cambodia.
Go to Museum Resource: https://folkways.si.edu/celebrate-cambodia-khmer-festival-wedding/music/tools-f... | |
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| Comparative Sculpture |
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| Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
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"Throughout history artists in every culture and society have created sculpture of some kind. Sculptures come in many different shapes and sizes, are made using all kinds of materials and a variety of processes and techniques, and satisfy various purposes. Inspired by the book From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg, students will compare several types of sculpture and create their own out of air-dry clay." For ages 10-12.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.oberlin.edu/amam/asia/sculpture/Default.html | |
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