The Rubin Museum of Art, in collaboration with a faculty Humanities Advisory Group, have recently launched Project Himalayan Art: a three-part initiative that offers comprehensive resources for teaching about Tibetan, Himalayan, and Inner Asian art and cultures, with a focus on cross-cultural exchange. This dynamic project serves as a content hub for teaching about Asia across a wide range of disciplines, including history, religion, art, and anthropology.
Project Himalayan Art is an integrated three-part initiative—digital platform, publication, and traveling exhibition—designed to support the incorporation of Himalayan, Tibetan, and Inner Asian art and cultures into humanities and liberal arts teaching curricula on Asia. This digital platform offers source material on Himalayan art through digital components for the traveling exhibition, 108 in-depth object essays, online collection materials, and digital features such as an interactive map, hundreds of related objects, glossary, and videos of rituals and art-making technologies. The project’s goal is to encourage the integration of Tibetan and Himalayan art and cultures into liberal arts curricula, expanding their inclusion in broad general surveys to more advanced upper-level courses and thus remedy their underrepresentation and the lack of introductory resources for teaching about the region.