“FROM STRAND TO SCULPTURE” FOCUS TOURS
Tour dates and times: February 15, March 1, March 15, April 4, and April 11

$30 – Members | $40 – Non-Members

In-depth, guided tours of the exhibition will focus on the artists, materials, techniques and styles in contemporary Japanese bamboo arts. Meher McArthur, Japanese art historian and former Curator of East Asian Art at Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, will lend her expertise as your guide. These one-and-a-half-hour tours are the best opportunity to get an up-close look at the works on display and explore this significant artistic legacy.

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Meher McArthur is an Asian art historian and curator specializing Japanese art. She has served as Curator of East Asian Art at Pacific Asia Museum, Creative Director for the Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden, Academic Curator for Scripps College and Art and Cultural Director for Japan House in Los Angeles. She has also Asian art at the University of Southern California, Scripps College, and Claremont Graduate University and at various museums in Southern California. Since 2010, McArthur has curated traveling exhibitions for International Arts & Artists (IA&A) including Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper and Kimono: Garment, Canvas, and Artistic Muse. Her publications include Gods and Goblins: Folk Paintings from Otsu (PAM, 1999), Reading Buddhist Art (Thames & Hudson, 2002) and The Arts of Asia (Thames & Hudson, 2005), An ABC of What Art Can Be (Getty Museum, 2010), New Expressions in Origami Art (Tuttle, 2017), and a memoir, A Japanese Art Journey: A Curator’s Memoir of Polka Dot Pumpkins, Paper Dolls and Woodblock Prints (Tuttle, 2025). She lives in Pasadena, CA.