Author: David Phillips

Entertainment

Euphoria K-Pop Exhibition

David Phillips

Fans of K-Pop from around the Coastal Bend gathered at Emerald Beach Hotel for “Euphoria: A K-Pop Exhibition” hosted by KP Vibes Entertainment in collaboration with the Texas State Museum of Asian Cultures and Education. The exhibition featured two rounds of dance plays, a lion dance performance, a performance by the Corpus Christi Taiko Club, and finally, a dance competition. Following those exhibitions, attendees enjoyed a concert featuring performances by Ted Park, Alan Z, and LUC ID. “As a Korean-American, it’s very inspiring and motivating to see Korean music and entertainment being enjoyed worldwide, and being produced in such high…

Community

Community turns out for museums’s Japan Day

David Phillips

The Texas State Museum of Asian Cultures and Education hosted it’s Japan Day festival during spring break, featuring the art and culture of the country on March 15. This is the second year that the museum has celebrated the event, which was implemented by Hitomi Sakakibara, the museum’s former Outreach Coordinator. Attendees were able to watch martial arts demonstrations as well as a drum performance by the Corpus Christi Taiko Club and kamishibai, a form of Japanese street theater storytelling, by Zero Untitled Films/Productions. Other booths included an origami station hosted by museum staff, a snake-petting booth with the South…

Community, Features

Lunar New Year celebration welcomes Year of the Snakes

David Phillips

The Texas State Museum of Asian Cultures and Education celebrated its annual Lunar New Year event on Saturday, Jan. 25 at its location at 1809 N. Chaparral St., four days before the actual Lunar New Year on Wednesday, Jan. 29. The Lunar New Year (or Chinese New Year for many people) is a celebration of the new year based on the lunar calendar that has been celebrated not just in China, but also in Vietnam, Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore. This year, the museum is celebrating the Year of the Snake in the Chinese zodiac which it symbolizes wisdom, intuition, and…

Community

50 Years of Texas Asian Museum History

David Phillips

On Sunday, Dec. 8, the Texas State Museum of Asian Cultures and Education will celebrate its 50th anniversary at 1809 N. Chaparral St. from noon to 5 p.m. The museum has come far in its 50 years, which all began with its founder Billie Trimble Chandler. Born in 1904, Billie Chandler enrolled at the University of Texas in Austin at 48 years old after going through a divorce after 26 years of marriage, where she enrolled alongside two of her children. She earned her master’s degree in education, and she was teaching in Corpus Christi for a few years when…

Art, Campus

Del Mar College Cain Art Gallery hosts photography exhibition

David Phillips

The Del Mar College Art Department held the opening reception for the “Texas Photography Society 32: The International Competition” exhibition on Friday, Sept. 20 in the Cain Art Gallery located at the Fine Arts Center in Del Mar’s Heritage Campus. The event was free and open to the public. It was an open-juried exhibition that featured 49 photographs that had been selected by Juror Maria Beatriz H. Carrion, the Assistant Curator of Photographs, for the Texas Photography Society. In addition to curating the final show, she also chose the first, second, and third-place winners plus five honorable mentions for the…

Art, Campus

Del Mar Heritage Campus unveils International Photography Competition

David Phillips

The Del Mar College Art Department will be hosting the new art exhibit titled “Texas Photographic Society 32: The International Competition” for the Fall Semester at the Cain Art Gallery, with the opening reception from 6-8 p.m. Friday, Sep. 20. The open-juried exhibition features 49 photographs selected by juror Maria Beatriz H. Carrion, Assistant Curator of Photographs. When stating her selection process for the exhibit, Carrion said, “My goal was to highlight as many approaches and subject matter as possible. This year’s winning images embody photography’s ability to capture a moment in time, tell stories, and transport us to new…