{"id":4940,"date":"2019-01-30T09:48:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T14:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lammuseum.wfu.edu\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2024-06-27T12:46:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T16:46:21","slug":"moa-celebrates-the-silk-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lammuseum.wfu.edu\/2019\/01\/moa-celebrates-the-silk-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"MOA Celebrates the Silk Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4909\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4909\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4909\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.wp.cdn.aws.wfu.edu\/sites\/417\/2019\/01\/Stoneware-on-the-Silk-Roads-web-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"Changsha stoneware\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod.wp.cdn.aws.wfu.edu\/sites\/88\/2019\/01\/Stoneware-on-the-Silk-Roads-web-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/prod.wp.cdn.aws.wfu.edu\/sites\/88\/2019\/01\/Stoneware-on-the-Silk-Roads-web.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Changsha stoneware ewer will be among the pieces on displa<span style=\"font-size: 16px\">tes,<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Much more than silk was traded along the Silk Roads.\u00a0 All kinds of luxuries and staple goods passed along the shifting network of roads, ocean routes and desert caravans that linked Asia, Africa, and Europe during the medieval period.\u00a0 Pottery, sometimes a luxury, sometimes a staple, was one of the most commonly traded goods.\u00a0 Chinese potters were among the first to make ceramics with high-temperature kilns, producing a very strong and hard type of pottery called stoneware.\u00a0 Early in the 7<sup>th<\/sup> century CE, dozens of styles of stoneware began flowing from Chinese kilns onto the Silk Roads.\u00a0 The Museum will highlight these ceramics by presenting <em><a href=\"https:\/\/lammuseum.wfu.edu\/exhibits\/current\/stoneware-on-the-silk-roads-ceramics-from-the-changsha-kilns\/\">Stoneware on the Silk Roads: Ceramics from the Changsha Kilns<\/a>,<\/em> opening on March 12.\u00a0 This year-long exhibit focuses on a single style of Chinese stoneware: Changsha Ware produced at the Tongguan Kilns in modern-day Hunan Province.\u00a0 Visitors will learn about the creation of stoneware at the kilns, the transportation routes that carried the pottery throughout the world, and the global consumers that bought and used it through vignettes illustrating each of these topics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with the exhibit, the MOA will hold a <a href=\"https:\/\/lammuseum.wfu.edu\/upcoming\/silk-roads-open-house\/\">Silk Roads Open House<\/a> on Saturday, March 23 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.\u00a0 Visitors will be able to meet a live Bactrian camel in the Museum\u2019s parking lot before coming inside for a hands-on experience of the many goods traded on the Silk Roads across Asia.\u00a0 This all-ages event will also include craft activities, games, and food inspired by the Silk Roads.\u00a0 Admission is free.<\/p>\n<p>Related to the MOA\u2019s collection of Changsha Ware, the Museum recently developed a partnership with the Changsha Museum in Hunan, China.\u00a0 The Changsha Museum has the largest collection of colored porcelains from the Changsha kiln in the world with more than 7,000 pieces.\u00a0 The MOA has the largest collection of Changsha Ware outside of Asia with more than 625 pieces.\u00a0 The Museum of Anthropology has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Changsha Museum expressing aspirations to collaborate on research, education, and exhibition projects.\u00a0 The first step will be for their curatorial staff to visit Wake Forest this spring to conduct a detailed analysis of the MOA collection.\u00a0 This collaboration would not be possible without the work of WFU anthropology major Qianxu Ding (\u201820) who helped arrange the partnership by traveling to Changsha last summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Museum has also partnered with two other departments on campus who will exhibit works with connections to Silk Roads this spring. The ZSR Library Special Collections &amp; Archives will present <a href=\"https:\/\/zsr.wfu.edu\/special\/exhibit\/paper-roads-cultural-exchange-in-the-age-of-print\/\"><em>Paper Roads: Cultural Exchange in the Age of Print <\/em><\/a>from February 5 to May 31, which traces the spread of paper along the Silk Roads and the many forms it took as a medium of cultural exchange.\u00a0 At the Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, <a href=\"http:\/\/hanesgallery.wfu.edu\/portfolio-item\/gianni-cestari-city-of-broken-shadows\/\"><em>Gianni Cestari: City of Broken Shadows<\/em><\/a> will feature works by Cestari that serve as metaphors for the Silk Roads as he interprets Calvino\u2019s book <em>Invisible Cities<\/em>.<em>\u00a0 <\/em>That exhibit will be on display February 4 to March 31.\u00a0 Each campus partner will exchange featured pieces with the other exhibits, resulting in the MOA\u2019s exhibition including both a Cestari painting inspired by Changsha stoneware and a work from the Special Collections &amp; Archives.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibits also coordinate with a multiple-day research conference, <em>The Silk Roads: From Local Realities to Global Narratives,<\/em>\u00a0which will be held March 27-30 at Wake Forest.\u00a0 The conference will bring together leading scholars in multiple disciplines with a holistic approach to understanding ancient globalization, exchanges, transformations, and movements\u2014and their continued relevance to the present.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much more than silk was traded along the Silk Roads.\u00a0 All kinds of luxuries and staple goods passed along the shifting network of roads, ocean routes and desert caravans that linked Asia, Africa, and Europe during the medieval period.\u00a0 Pottery, sometimes a luxury, sometimes a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"overlay_title":false,"hide_featured_image_post":false,"wfu_hide_page_title":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MOA Celebrates the Silk Roads - Timothy S. 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