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January 22, 2021
People look up at the ceiling of the newly restored rotunda inside the US Capitol, September 6, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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Sam Whiting January 21, 2021Updated: January 24, 2021, 11:53 am
Gertrud Parker at the 2006 Museum of Craft and Folk Art gala in San Francisco. Photo: Parker family
The San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum opened in 1982 in a small Richmond District home owned by its founder Gertrud Parker a fiber artist with a belief that ceramics and wood carvings were as legitimate a form as fine art painting.
Parker had no fear of failure, or anything else. As a teenager, she’d narrowly escaped the Nazis by train out of her native Vienna. She trusted her hunch about folk art and she was right. Her museum outgrew the house and moved to Fort Mason before landing downtown as the renamed Museum of Craft and Folk Art. Its opening nights were packed up until its closing night, in October 2012 after a 30-year run at up to 60,000 visitors per annum.
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106th birth anniversary of Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin observed
Sun Online Desk
The 106th birth anniversary of art maestro Zainul Abedin was observed on Tuesday.
The creative genius was born on December 29, 1914, in Kishoreganj and went on to become the man behind the establishment of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Dhaka University and the Folk Art Museum in Sonargaon, Narayanganj.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, his birth anniversary was celebrated with a small number of programmes. Dhaka University’s Faculty of Fine Arts arranged a virtual edition of Zainul Festival today.
The virtual event, including placing a floral wreath at the grave of the Shilpacharya by the Dhaka University vice-chancellor and faculty members at 10am followed by a virtual photography and art exhibition on the life and works of Zainul Abedin, was broadcast on the Fine Arts Faculty website www.fineart-du.com.
106th birth anniversary of Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin observed
Sun Online Desk
The 106th birth anniversary of art maestro Zainul Abedin was observed on Tuesday.
The creative genius was born on December 29, 1914, in Kishoreganj and went on to become the man behind the establishment of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Dhaka University and the Folk Art Museum in Sonargaon, Narayanganj.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, his birth anniversary was celebrated with a small number of programmes. Dhaka University’s Faculty of Fine Arts arranged a virtual edition of Zainul Festival today.
The virtual event, including placing a floral wreath at the grave of the Shilpacharya by the Dhaka University vice-chancellor and faculty members at 10am followed by a virtual photography and art exhibition on the life and works of Zainul Abedin, was broadcast on the Fine Arts Faculty website www.fineart-du.com.