Year of Asia sponsors:
The Schultz
Foundation, Inc.
 
 


Oglethorpe University Museum of Art presents 

TWO POWERFUL EXHIBITIONS

   
 

 

 


   

THE FEMALE BUDDHA:
WOMEN OF ENLIGHTENMENT
IN TIBETAN MYSTICISM

September 15, 2002 through February 15, 2003,
and
June 12 through
August 24, 2003

We are very pleased to announce that the Female Buddha exhibition has returned to OUMA for the summer of 2003.

This exhibition features sixty-five masterpiece watercolors, or tangkas, and a dozen figures of bronze and wood, from the collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin.
The Rubin Collection in its entirety is thought to be the largest collection of Tibetan art outside of Tibet. Donald Rubin, a 1956 Oglethorpe University Alumnus, and his wife Shelley, had never before made these works available for exhibition. The exhibition at Oglethorpe was the first ever with this thematic focus to be presented in the United States. Atlantans and world visitors were able to explore more fully the ancient and ongoing traditions of "The Land Above the Clouds" through related programming, including the construction of a Female Buddha Sita Tara Sand Mandala by Tibetan monks, and an outstanding exhibition lecture series. The full color exhibition catalog was written by exhibition curator Glenn H. Mullin, world renowned scholar of Tibetan culture and student of the Dalai Lama, and published by Clear Light Publishers.
ZEN NO SHO:
THE CALLIGRAPY OF
FUKUSHIMA KEIDO ROSHI

February 25, 2003 through
May 11, 2003

Oglethorpe University Museum of Art has been honored to present this exhibition of the calligraphy of Fukushima Roshi, head abbot of Japan's Tofukuji Monastery and venerable Zen Master.

Internationally renowned for his calligraphic work, Fukushima Keido Roshi is considered a national treasure in Japan, revered to the degree that an artist of the stature of Monet or Picasso would be in the West. Among the works shown at OUMA were unique calligraphy created specially for this exhibition. Fukushima Roshi conducted a calligraphy demonstration during the exhibition, as well as a half-day Zen retreat. A special lecture series also brought visitors an opportunity to gain a better understanding of a culture and aesthetics far different from our own. The exhibition catalog, Zen No Sho: The Calligraphy of Fukushima Roshi Keido, was edited by Dr. Jason Wirth, Associate Professor of Philosophy at OU and published by Clear Light Publishers. The catalog also includes essays by Audrey Yoshiko Seo, Stephen Addiss, and Steve Goldberg –all leading scholars in the field.
Many Thanks to Our Year of Asia Sponsors...


Consulate General of
Japan in Atlanta
The Schultz
Foundation, Inc.