Teaching with Tibetan Art

Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at what’s happening at the Tang Teaching Museum with Dayton Director Ian Berry. How has the Museum shifted its programming this summer and what is to come for the Fall? How is the Museum responding to both pandemic and protest? Hear about new online initiatives like Tang-at Home, Tang Extra Credit, and Art & Ideas. Meet Associate Professor of Asian Studies Ben Bogin and hear about his research and teaching and how new networks for faculty and students are created around the Museum. Ben and Ian will share exciting news around our recent acquisition of Tibetan artworks and the expanded research and teaching resources they will make possible. Ian Berry is Dayton Director of The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery and Professor of Liberal Arts at Skidmore College. He has organized over 100 museum exhibitions for the Tang and museums across the United States. Recent curatorial projects include: 3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art 1964-1980 and surveys of painters Dona Nelson and Mary Weatherford. During his tenure, the Tang’s encyclopedic collection has expanded greatly with significant additions across the history of photography and contemporary art. Berry is a leader in the field of college and university museums, and is a regular speaker on interdisciplinary, inventive curatorial practice and teaching in museums. He is well known for his active publication record including monographs on artists Terry Adkins, Nancy Grossman, Corita Kent, Nicholas Krushenick, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., and Alma Thomas. He is a board member of the Museum Association of New York, has chaired the Visual Arts Panel of the New York State Council on the Arts, and serves on several advisory committees for regional and national arts organizations. At Skidmore, he teaches the Art History seminars Inside the Museum and The Artist Interview. Benjamin Bogin is an Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the Asian Studies Program at Skidmore College. He received his MA and PhD (Buddhist Studies) from the University of Michigan. Bogin spent six years living in Kathmandu, Nepal where he directed study-abroad programs in the Himalayas for American students. His book The Illuminated Life of the Great Yolmowa was published in 2013 by Serindia Publications and he is the co-editor of Himalayan Passages: Tibetan and Newar Studies in Honor of Hubert Decleer published by Wisdom Publications in 2014. His primary research interests are Tibetan Buddhist autobiography and the intersections of visual art, narrative, and sacred geography in Buddhist cultures.