Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum
Nature’s Readymades
Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum 60 College Avenue, Annapolis, MarylandNature's Readymades presents an extraordinary selection of Gongshi (scholars’ rocks or viewing stones) drawn from the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum in Washington, D.C. Carved by nature and relished by Chinese literati as early as the Tang dynasty (7th c.), these paradoxical objects are worlds in miniature, presenting the vital energy of the universe in a […]
Kimsooja: A Homeless Woman
Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum 60 College Avenue, Annapolis, MarylandBorn in Taegu, Korea, Kimsooja works nomadically but maintains studios in New York, Paris, and Seoul. Her art frequently focuses on migration, displacement, and belonging. This video, made in 2001, documents Kimsooja performing in her personae the Homeless Woman. It is one of many artworks in which she lies, sits, or stands motionless in a […]
Meditate Among Scholars Rocks
Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum 60 College Avenue, Annapolis, MarylandIn this 30-minute meditation classe led by Kashya Boretsky (SJC staff member and certified yoga & meditation instructor), we will channel the energy of Ancient Chinese scholar's rocks -- now on view at the Mitchell Art Museum -- to gently guide our awareness inward. Class will begin with space to observe and contemplate these rocks […]
Meditate Among Scholars Rocks
Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum 60 College Avenue, Annapolis, MarylandIn this 30-minute meditation classe led by Kashya Boretsky (SJC staff member and certified yoga & meditation instructor), we will channel the energy of Ancient Chinese scholar's rocks -- now on view at the Mitchell Art Museum -- to gently guide our awareness inward. Class will begin with space to observe and contemplate these rocks […]