Bower's and Japanese Museum! Yay! :)

By attending the Bower's museum, it helped me understand how visiting it was helpful; to our knowledge and why we should value it. Not only does it show you artifacts of the past, it also allows you to learn about the history and culture especially about China. With the many artifacts, and the explanation given by our docent for each, I learned many things throughout the tour. However, the main thing that I had learned was all the different types of pottery that was made with different materials such as celadon, jade, and porcelain. Each material that made the artifact centuries ago has a different syle, design, and shape.

After seeing how the Bower's museum had set up their artifacts, our whole entire seventh grade class was inspired to make our own museum and exhibit. Instead of making one on China like what the museum had presented, we made one on Japan. We each chose a topic that relates with the old and modern Japan.

For my group, we chose to do Japanese Ikebana which is the traditional Japanese art of flower arranging. We included a poster board with different information about Ikebana along with pictures of the different types. With that, we also made our own Ikebana with the Chabana/Nagarie style. We did a lot of research, and had putten a lot of effort into our project. In my overall view, I believe that we had done a good job, and had made a great Ikebana ourselves especially since this was our first time. At the end, I beleive that we had presented a good speech on our project of Ikebana. In my opinion, the audience's general expression about our exhibit.presentation would be neutral. Our actual Ikebana was commented to be very pretty, but our presentation was pretty boring with just facts about Ikebana. If we were to do it again, I beleive that we would make it more interesting with our presentation.
I believe that this experience was really fun and it was cool to make our own Japanese exhibit with Ikebana!