Part of our mission is to lend a helping hand in the protection of intangible artistic/cultural heritage (i.e., nonphysical intellectual property, such as folkloric arts, customs, beliefs, traditions, knowledge, and language). We seek to establish a strong, international network of carefully selected affiliates and partners, working in the medieval guild tradition of protection of shared interests and promotion of collective goals. Please contact us if you would like to join us as individuals or cooperatives.
TIBETAN ARTISTS' DEVELOPMENT COMPANY (Snowland Art School)
Amphitheatrum Anatomicum is proud to announce its first partnership with the Tibetan Artists’ Development Company (Snowland Art School). The school is a small, family-style fine arts and handicrafts training school, located in Labrang, home to the famous Labrang Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China. It was established in 2010 by Canadian artist Kristel Ouwehand (Tenzin Dolma), a human living treasure in her own right, in response to a growing need for young Tibetan artists to study arts in an ethics-based environment. As a result of local art culture being increasingly under threat of dilution by tourist trade economics, Tibetan artists are pressured to produce traditional art (thangka paintings) in great quantities with less regard for tradition and quality. The quality and respect ordinarily attached to the art of thangka paintings has suffered greatly. The Tibetan Artists' Development Company aims to provide young people with a solid foundation of artistic history and steeped in sound knowledge of Buddhist symbolism.
The Tibetan Artists' Development Company is in need of your support! All donations go directly to the management and operation of the school and funding of its students to continue their art studies. Your contributions will help protect and promote their traditional craftsmanship, and assist in the development of living human treasures tasked with the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage for generations to come.
For more information, please visit: www.snowlandart.org, or make a donation here.
If you are interested in arranging a visit to the school to study and learn traditional, thangka painting, please contact us.