17 January 2020
With the Year of the Pig drawing to a close and the Year of the Rat right around the corner, we studied Dong Ho woodcut paintings– traditional images from Vietnamese celebrations of the Lunar New Year.
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7 January 2019
Whilst the Hindu festival of lights is foreign to myself and most of my students, we learned that there are many similarities between how people celebrate this and other harvest festivals throughout Asia. The festivities passed in November, but we continued working away to sculpt highly decorative clay lamps used in celebrations and rituals of Diwali.
9 February 2018
The Tet season is a good time to learn about folk paintings that have for over nine centuries decorated the homes of Vietnamese families celebrating the arrival of spring. Before pulling out the brushes and paint palettes, we looked into the graphic charm of these images, with their simple edges, often humorous and brightly coloured to reflect an optimism for the Lunar New Year.