The meeting will be in the Olbrich Gardens “Upstairs Meeting Room” … on the second floor, our normal meeting location.
This is a normal time meeting … from 6:30pm to 7:45pm.
Remember that when entering Olbrich, please be considerate of your noise level, as other activities may be present.
Agenda of the meeting:
- New attendees introductions
- Show and Tell (Special aspect, concept, or technique related to Bonsai)
- Japanese Woodblock Printing Presentation by Professor Steffani Bennett
- Door prize drawings (for BBS members only)
remember to pay your dues for 2023 ASAP
if you joined after May-1-2022, you renew for 2023 at 50%
Feb 2023 Newsletter … needs PDF reader (Should be Coming Feb 4th)
The BBS enjoyed a similar presentation a number of years ago and this will be an opportunity to appreciate another form of Japanese art and design.
Professor Steffani Bennett is a historian of premodern Japanese art with expertise in medieval painting and cross-cultural exchange in the East Asian region. The daughter of U.S. diplomats, Steffani first developed an interest in interregional art history during her childhood in Asia. She has a bachelor’s degree in art history and Japanese language from the University of Washington, Seattle and a PhD in Japanese art history from Harvard University.
In the fall of 2022, Steffani joined the Art History department at the UW-Madison, where she holds the Joan B. Mirviss Chair in Japanese Art. Although a specialist in medieval painting, Steffani’s research and teaching interests are broad and include the subject of Japanese woodblock prints. This spring Steffani is teaching her course “The Floating World: A History of Japanese Prints.” Her talk for the Badger Bonsai Society offers an introduction to the woodblock print medium through the thematic lens of the printed landscape.
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Jason (updated Jan-31)
Badger Bonsai Society
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