Between August 20 and 26, 1977, the Albright-Knox’s education department organized a series of Chinese pottery and calligraphy demonstrations in conjunction with the exhibition Far Eastern Art in Upstate New York. As part of the demonstrations, museum visitors could try their hands at painting, clay modeling, and printmaking techniques similar to those used to create works in the exhibition.
Far Eastern Art in Upstate New York featured 141 works of art and artifacts from China, Japan, and Korea, spanning over four thousand years. It was the second in a series of cooperatively organized exhibitions drawing from the collections of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, the Albany Institute of History and Art, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, and the Albright-Knox.