Meet-And-Greet with Thangka Artist Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo
Sun, Oct 30
|Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
meet-and-greet and book talk/Q&A with thangka artist Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo
Time & Location
Oct 30, 2022, 2:00 PM
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, 338 Lighthouse Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306, USA
About the event
The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art presents... an exclusive talk and meet-and-greet with thangka artist, Leslee Rinchen-Wongmo!
Meet Leslie
Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo is a textile artist, teacher, and author of . A California girl who bought a one-way ticket to India and landed in a Tibetan sewing workshop next door to the Dalai Lama, she became one of few non-Tibetans to master the Buddhist art of silk appliqué thangka. Trained by two of the finest living Tibetan appliqué artists, Leslie learned to stitch bits of silk into elaborate figurative mosaics that bring the transformative images of Buddhist meditation to life. Threads of Awakening: An American Woman’s Journey into Tibet’s Sacred Textile Art
Her pieced silk thangkas have been exhibited internationally and featured in magazines such as h, , and and in the documentary, . Spirituality & HealtFiberArts Fiber Art NowCreating Buddhas: The Making and Meaning of Fabric Thangkas
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