In celebration of Museums and Galleries Month, Ayala Museum presents Gold and the Female Form, a special, FREE public lecture program.

 

Drawn from the museum’s international conference Ritual, Ornament, and Currency: Gold in Early Asian Cultures, this program features two selected lectures by distinguished scholars. Together, they explore how the female form was shaped, adorned, and reimagined in gold, ceramics, and other materials across early Southeast Asia.

 

Vajralasya: Identifying the Gold Agusan Image
Jamie Kelly, Collections Manager, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

 

Pottery, Gold, and Porcelain: Mammiform Kendi and Cross-Media Evolution of Southeast Asian Aesthetics
Dr. Li Xiaolu, Faculty, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts