Image courtesy San Antonio Museum of Art and Yujiro Seki
Join two exciting family programs at the San Antonio Museum of Art this month! Celebrate the Year of the Snake with snake-inspired art-making in the Kid’s Studio, and then explore a 1,400-year-old Buddhist woodcarving tradition with a screening of the documentary Carving the Divine.
Kids’ Studio: Year of the Snake
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 10-11:15am
Great Hall
Free with Museum admission
Join the Kids’ Studio for a journey of creative expression, cultural discovery, and collaborative learning in a bilingual environment. Ideal for budding artists ages 0-5 and their caregivers. Come curious, leave inspired through sensory storytelling, interactive art activities, and imaginative thinking.
Check-in begins at 10:00 am, and the program starts promptly at 10:15 am. Program pre-registration is encouraged prior to the event or on-site the day of.
To learn more and register, click here.
Film: Carving the Divine: Buddhist Sculptors of Japan
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 6-8pm
John L. Santikos Auditorium
Free (seating is first-come, first-served)
Carving the Divine is a documentary film that offers a rare look into a 1,400-year-old Buddhist woodcarving tradition and the practitioners struggling to preserve its legacy in a rapidly changing Japan.
Determined to pass his craft down to future generations, Master Koun Seki, the former apprentice of renowned busshi (Buddhist sculptor) Kourin Saito, interviews a candidate applying to be his new apprentice. Quickly though, we discover this apprenticeship and the busshi’s life to be far less glamorous, and much more austere, than we (or the candidate) would’ve likely imagined.
Carving the Divine has become the official selection for 30 film festivals, showing in a total of 22 countries, and won awards at 13 festivals worldwide, such as winning the Best Director Award of a Foreign Language Documentary at World Cinema Milan and premiering at the famous Raindance Film Festival in London.
To learn more, click here.