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heavily influenced by China, there has been such a wide range of artistic productivity in Korea over the
centuries — both religious and secular, aristocratic and popular, foreign and indigenous, ephemeral and
permanent — that it is impossible to identify one single artistic style or aesthetic running through
Korean art.
About speaker: Ms. Meher McArthur is an independent Asian art curator, author and educator. She
worked for nine years as Curator of East Asian Art at Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, where she
curated 15 exhibitions and several permanent galleries. Her most recent major exhibitions have been
with a traveling exhibitions company. They include Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami
(2012-2016) and Above the Fold: New Expressions in Origami, (2015-2017). She is currently Creative
Director for the Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden in Pasadena and curates regular exhibitions in its En
Gallery. She recently took up a new position as Curator of Academic Programs and Collections at
Scripps College, Claremont. She lectures regularly at Southern California museums and writes about
art for magazines and websites including www.buddhistdoor.com.
She has published many books, such as Gods and Goblins, Reading Buddhist Art: An Illustrated Guide
to Buddhist Signs and Symbols, The Arts of Asia: Materials, Techniques, Styles, a biography of
Confucius, and two books on origami, including her latest New Expressions in Origami Art. Her
children’s books are An ABC of What Art Can Be for the Getty Museum and Michael and the Magical
Museum for Pacific Asia Museum.

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