{"id":5212,"date":"2022-12-05T18:10:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T05:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teuru.org.nz\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=5212"},"modified":"2022-12-05T18:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T05:23:11","slug":"netsuke-exhibition-talk-with-grace-lai","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/whats-on\/calendar\/netsuke-exhibition-talk-with-grace-lai\/","title":{"rendered":"Netsuke Exhibition talk: Grace Lai,\u00a0Human History Curator at Auckland Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, Grace Lai, Curator of Applied Arts and Design at Auckland Museum, curated the exhibition\u00a0<em>Carried away: Bags unpacked<\/em>. The exhibition featured bags that were rich with stories of innovative design, indigenous traditions and personal stories. Through this process she became familiar with the museum\u2019s collection of 18th and 19th century\u00a0<em>netsuke<\/em>\u00a0pieces, that of course were key items in the history of bags and everyday carried objects in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Join Grace for a talk on historic and contemporary<em>\u00a0netsuke,<\/em>\u00a0as she takes us through\u00a0<a href=\"\/whats-on\/calendar\/contemporary-wood-carved-netsuke\/\">Te Uru\u2019s exhibition<\/a>\u00a0and her own experiences researching the diverse use of bags across cultures and centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, Grace Lai, Curator of Applied Arts and Design at Auckland Museum, curated the exhibition\u00a0Carried away: Bags unpacked. The exhibition featured bags that were rich with stories of innovative design, indigenous traditions and personal stories. Through this process she became familiar with the museum\u2019s collection of 18th and 19th century\u00a0netsuke\u00a0pieces, that of course were key items in the history of bags and everyday carried objects in Japan. Join Grace for a talk on historic and contemporary\u00a0netsuke,\u00a0as she takes us through\u00a0Te Uru\u2019s exhibition\u00a0and her own experiences researching the diverse use of bags across cultures and centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[9],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/5212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5212"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=5212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}