Celebrating Japanese Art - Tradition, Craft, and Conservation

The Reception & the Conservator Conversation will be held inside the Anne Cox Chambers Wing at The High Museum of Art, located at 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30309,

For map and directions, please visit https://high.org/directions-and-parking/directions-tab.

Sara Ribbans is the conservator of Asian paintings at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), concentrating on Japanese and Korean paintings. While Sara examines, treats, and conducts research on the entire collection of Korean and Japanese paintings, her focus since coming to the CMA has been the treatment of Japanese Buddhist paintings on silk. Prior to working at the CMA, she was an apprentice at Tominaga Beizandou in Kumamoto, Japan, before becoming a conservator at Usami Shokakudo Company in Kyoto, Japan. She holds a master of art conservation degree, concentrating on paper conservation, from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and a BFA from York University in Toronto.

The "Tsuzuri Project" (Official Title: Cultural Heritage Inheritance Project) is a joint project organized by Canon and the Kyoto Culture Association (NPO). The Project aims to create and make use of high resolution facsimiles of cultural assets from Japanese antiquity, with keeping the original cultural assets in more favorable environments.

This program is supported by a grant to the National Association of Japan America Societies (NAJAS) from the United States-Japan Foundation. The JASG and our partners are most grateful for their generous support.

The National Association of Japan-America Societies, Inc. (NAJAS) is a private, nonprofit, non-partisan membership organization consisting of 40 independent Japan-America Societies located in the United States and Canada. NAJAS offers public affairs, business, cultural and educational programs about Japan and U.S.-Japan relations to the general public through our member Japan and Japan-America Societies.

The United States-Japan Foundation is an independent philanthropic organization working to strengthen bilateral ties and address shared challenges. We empower next-generation leaders and fund innovative initiatives, catalyzing collaboration and exchanges among stakeholders in search of solutions.