Asian Arts and Culture Center, Towson University

Sunday, November 6, 2pm.

Art Lecture Hall. Center for the Arts 2032.

Exhibition curator and ceramic artist, Marie Woo, introduces and discusses minyao, Chinese folk pottery. These locally-made wares fired in private kilns reflect the diversity of ethnic communities throughout China. Woo is an artist whose ceramic work bridges Asian and Western traditions. She has taught at the University of Michigan, University of Washington and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Woo was awarded an H. Rackham grant to Japan where she worked in Bizen with Toyo Kaneshige, considered a Japanese Living National Treasure. Woo's work is found in the permanent collections of the Ariana Museum, Geneva, Switzerland; Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece; the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, China; the Mikhina Institute of Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; the Incheon Ceramic Museum, Korea; the Shigaraki International Ceramic Museum, Everson Museum, Syracuse, N.Y. and locally at the Detroit Institute of Art.

Contact Information:

(410) 704-2807

www.towson.edu/asianarts