“From Strand to Sculpture” Exhibition Focus Tour
Sunday, February 15, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Pricing: $30 - Members | $40 - Non-Members
This in-depth, guided tour of the From Strand to Sculpture: Contemporary Japanese Basketry exhibition will focus on the artists, materials, techniques and styles in contemporary Japanese bamboo arts. Meher McArthur, a well-regarded curator of Japanese art, will lend her expertise as your guide. Attending a one-and-a-half-hour focus tour is the best opportunity to get an up-close look at the works on display and explore this significant artistic legacy.
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.
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