Top left: ‘Sakamoto and the Monks of Hieizan’. Photo: Andrew William Top right: “VITRIFIED” (2018) Etsuko Ichikawa. Photo: Peter Kuhnlein Bottom left: ‘A Walk among 1,200 Buddhas’. Photo: Andrew William Bottom right: ‘Broken Poems of Fireflies’ (2020) Etsuko Ichikawa. Photo: Alec Miller
Program dates and times: Monday, July 11th to Thursday, July 14th
Curated and led by EARC program leader Melanie King, this series of standalone online workshops considered the sacred across different spaces, expressions, and, experiences across East Asia and beyond. Designed for secondary teachers in Social Studies, History, Art History, Art, Language Arts, English, Religious Studies, and Visual Culture, each workshop focused on the sacred as expressed from the past through to present through different forms of expression and intention.
Session 1: Monday, July 11
What is sacred?
Melanie King, Art historian and EARC program leader
Session 2: Monday, July 11
Japanese Art: A Unique Combination of Shinto and Buddhism in the Visual Arts
Dr. Yukiko Shirahara, Visiting Professor, International Christian University, Tokyo
Session 3: Tuesday, July 12
Buddhist sites, colossal figures, and meritorious acts
Melanie King, Art historian and EARC program leader
Session 4: Tuesday, July 12
A Walk Among 1,200 Buddhas
Andrew William, An Design, Kyoto
Session 5: Wednesday, July 13
Sonic Artifacts from Japanese America
Paul Kikuchi, Music Faculty, South Seattle College
Session 6: Wednesday, July 13
Sakamoto and the Monks of Hieizan
Andrew William, An Design, Kyoto
Session 7: Thursday, July 14
Visual poetry for future generations
Etsuko Ichikawa, Multi-media artist, filmmaker, and activist
Session 8: Thursday, July 14
Remembering and Forgetting: Memorializing as a Sacred and Political Act
Melanie King, Art historian and EARC program leader
Kathleen Krauth, Teacher, The American School in Japan and Co-Founder, JapanCraft21
Benefits
Teachers received two free WA OSPI clock hours for each workshop session attended
This program was sponsored by the East Asia Resource Center at the University of Washington, and funded by a Freeman Foundation grant in support of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA).