Mission Statement

Our mission is to present an interactive platform of video links, podcasts, online lectures, or databases explaining art-making techniques of Asian art and design for educational institutions and audiences and to highlight artistic contributions and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture. We encourage our audience, whether practitioners of art and design or not, to participate in discovery, learning, debate, and inspiration.

Visions

With Asia as our foundation and art as our keystone, we guide creative and educational communities to discover connections across cultures and advance interest in ecosystems of craft-producing centers and historical crafts practiced by artists of the past and the present.

Although some ideals and traditions bear similarities across different regions of Asia, a variety of different viewpoints and practices are abound within Asia. Peoples of Asia have dispersed among different continents and established a hybrid culture of their own. So have been Asian cultural traditions. We want to provide a platform to explore these connections and innovations in our collection of educational materials.

With this platform of conversation and connection, we want to support artistic and educational programs to empower visitors to apply new learning to their own enterprise and personal experience.

Sponsors

Bamboo Canvas was supported by the State University of New York IITG (Innovative Instructional Technology Grant), Fashion Institute of Technology, Stony Brook University, and SUNY Old Westbury. We look for new sponsors and partners.