Story Time at SDMA: Recent Episodes
Ladan Akbarnia
Spinning off from Virtual SDMA's Masterpiece Minute Series, Story Time at SDMA features works from The San Diego Museum of Art’s collection through stories told by the children they inspire.
In this episode, SDMA Curator Ladan Akbarnia speaks with 11-year-old San Diego fifth grader Nava about a lajvardina dish in the collection (http://collection.sdmart.org/Obj11400?sid=6192&x=118925&port=2856) and its association with Nawruz, the Persian new year. This dish also features as Episode 40 of SDMA's Masterpiece Minute podcast series.
Luca, a kindergartner in San Diego, reads a story he wrote about an Indian painting of a blue elephant in the The San Diego Museum of Art's Edwin Binney 3rd Collection ("A Mahout driving an elephant through a flowered field," fragment of a painting mounted on a detached album folio. India, Rajasthan, Sirohi, ca. 1690. Ink and opaque watercolor on paper. Edwin Binney 3rd Collection, 1990.907).