Art Tours by Amy

02/12/2022

Art feast in Italy 2021. Timeless Tuscany. Highlights from Siena and Florence. Bliss.

02/11/2021

Part 3: Art in the Desert. Details of San Xavier del Bac. Over 200 years of beauty. Awesome!

02/11/2021

Art in the Desert. Part 2: interior San Xavier del Bac. WOW!

02/11/2021

Art in the desert. Masterpiece of 18th c Baroque architecture San Xavier del Bac near Tucson, Arizona. Part 1: Exterior!

11/12/2020

Noguchi and Brancusi on my mind at 10,000 feet in the Snake Range in Great Basin NP in Nevada last week! They both loved the shapes created with granite!

07/18/2020

Monet in the mountains. Lily Pond at over 8,000 feet elevation in the Sawtooth mountains of Idaho. 7-14-2020

06/29/2020

NEW Art in France April 2021. Check it out. Hopeful... https://arttoursbyamy.com/art-in-france-paris-museums-cave-art/

Join Amy Osaki in France to revel in human creativity. This newly designed trip explores art in museums in Paris and in the caves of the Dordogne region. Examine how Homo sapiens explored line, shape, color and texture over a period of tens of thousands of years. Begin in Paris where Amy studied at....

05/17/2020

Japan awaits. 2021. April. https://arttoursbyamy.com/art-history-gardens-japan/

05/04/2020

The Art of Small. Did you attend a small rural college? Read this by Sweet Briar College President Merideth Woo.I'm a proud Sweet Briar graduate, and proud to support one of the largest employers in Amherst County Virginia. https://sbc.edu/news/ties-that-bind-rural-america/

Op-ed by President Meredith Woo Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 25, 2020 COVID-19 has arrived in rural America. The impact of the pandemic, and in its wake, the recession, will be profound. The most rural and isolated of American towns already have the highest rates of poverty, unemployment and popul...

04/28/2020

This Too Shall Pass. Watch this amazing creation by Rube Goldberg and his team. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w Spectacular 4 minutes!

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03/27/2020

Wisteria in Japan. April 2016. Temple 88 of the 88 temple pilgrimage on Shikoku. Memories:)

02/25/2020

Opening this weekend! Excellent play about Japanese American experience. Watch this interview with cast member and director of the play Ben Uchida at the Oregon Children's Theatre. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=194851581733197

01/25/2020

Ready for Japan? Join me for Art, History, and Gardens. April 19-28, 2020. https://arttoursbyamy.com/art-history-gardens-japan/

April 19-28, 2020 Plan your arrival in Kyoto, Japan for April 18, 2020 Plan your departure from Takamatsu, Japan for April 29, 2020

11/05/2019

Silk Road highlights. Part 4: Kashgar old city, mausoleum and mosque. China art tour, October 2019.

11/05/2019

Silk Road highlights. Part 3: Bezeklik painted caves, Emin minaret, Jiaohe ancient city, snow in the TianShan mountains. China art tour October 2019.

11/05/2019

Silk Road highlights. Part 2: Gobi desert, Great Wall fort, camels, tombs, painted caves, and a high speed train. October 2019 art tour to China.

11/05/2019

Silk Road highlights. October 2019 art tour to China. Part 1: Beijing and Xi'an. UCCA, Red Gate, and more art galleries in Beijing. Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Green Dragon Temple, Terracotta Warriors, Shaanxi Museum, Tang Dynasty performance, Xi'an Great Mosque, historic courtyard house in Xi'an.

10/04/2019

In San Francisco? Noguchi and Hasegawa exhibit! Check it out!

The Do ListIsamu Noguchi and Saburo Hasegawa: A Friendship Nearly Lost to Art HistorySarah HotchkissOct 3FacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkCopy LinkInstallation view of 'Changing and Unchanging Things' at the Asian Art Museum. (Courtesy of the Asian Art Museum)Even decades after Saburo Hasegawa’s deat...

09/28/2019

Favorite photos from the Silk Road. Looking forward to being back at these cool spots! http://arttoursbyamy.com/slideshows/silkroad2013/ios/silkroad2013_show.htm

The Silk Road in western China, 2013

09/26/2019

Bravo! Artist in Portland. Read all about Phil here. https://www.wweek.com/culture/2019/09/25/phil-sylvester-makes-guitars-that-should-be-mounted-on-the-walls-of-avant-garde-art-galleries/

Above all else, Phil Sylvester wants to make a great-sounding guitar. But the way he sees it, “As long as you’re building it, you might as well make it interesting.”

06/26/2019

Art in Italy. Hello from Bolzano where centuries old buildings nestle in view of the Alps.

06/12/2019

Announcing 2020 art trip: JAPAN! April 19-28, 2020. Trip is 2/3 full. Sign up online https://arttoursbyamy.com/art-history-gardens-japan/

April 19-28, 2020Plan your arrival in Kyoto, Japan for April 18, 2020Plan your departure from Takamatsu, Japan for April 29, 2020

02/07/2019

Silk Road: take a virtual trip. My photos from the Silk Road in a short slide show. Enjoy! Only a few spots open on my October 2019 trip. http://arttoursbyamy.com/slideshows/silkroad2013/silkroad2013_show.htm

The Silk Road in western China, 2013

12/11/2018

Feedback on the 2018 Japan art tour: "I was able to experience Japan in a deeper way than I expected and could never have created by myself. Having a curated focus (art, gardens, castles, temples) to explore a country was novel. The urban and art island art exposure left me with a sense of having been immersed in Japanese culture farther than floating as an observer off to the side somewhere as I feel after most trips". Thank you Patricia!

11/30/2018

Announcing 2019 art tour! Join me in China for art, history, archaeology on the Silk Road! https://arttoursbyamy.com/silk_road_tour/

October 10-20, 2019Plan your arrival in Xi’an, China for October 9 at the latest(Plan your arrival in Beijing, China for October 7 if you plan to participate in the optional pre-tour trip in Beijing on October 8)Plan your departure from Kashgar, China for October 21

11/15/2018

Reflections on Japan Art Tour 2018.

11/15/2018

Details: highlights from Japan Art 2018 trip!

11/12/2018

Day 10: Japan. Shikoku 88 Temple pilgrimage 11-12-2018

11/12/2018

Day 9: Japan 11-11-2018 Traverse the island of Honshu, visit Ohara Museum, then to Takamatsu on Shikoku

11/10/2018

Day 8: Japan art tour. Adachi Museum, Lafcadio Hearn House, Matsue Castle. Sunny day full of gems. 11-10-2018

11/09/2018

Day 7: Japan Art- Depart Naoshima to Nagi to Matsue 11-9-2018

11/08/2018

Day 6: Japan details of art island in the Inland Sea 11-8-2018

11/07/2018

Day 5: Kyoto to Teshima to Naoshima. Train. Boat. Art. 11-7-2018

11/06/2018

Day 4: Kyoto. Four exceptional gardens. One private. Three at Zen temples (one of which is only open for a month this year)! WOW 11-6-2018