Grass Scripts: Bamboo Art from the Abbey Collection

Grass Scripts: Bamboo Art from the Abbey Collection delves into how pioneers of modern bamboo in early 1900s Japan sought recognition for their millennia-long tradition as art rather than as craft.

Through modern innovations of form and technique, lyrical titles, and signatures, these masters of bamboo brought their own hands—wrote their own selves—into the bamboo work of art. This exhibition was made possible thanks to the generous gift of bamboo art from Arthur and Diane Abbey.