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Batik of Java: A Centuries Old Tradition

Asian Art Museum 2026-09-22 | Batik of Java: A Centuries Old Tradition

Audio Description: Snake, Mexico, 1956, by Yoshida Hodaka (Japanese, 1926–1995)

Asian Art Museum 2022-11-28 | Narrated by Caden Honda, Asian Art Museum Art Speak Internship Alumnus. Audio descriptions are supported by Stanley Yarnell.

For more info on the exhibition, Color Trip: Yoshida Hodaka's Modern Prints: exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/color-trip-yoshida-hodakas-modern-prints/?_ga=2.7674802.18760974.1669058312-947266831.1667831114
For more info on the artwork: http://asianart.emuseum.com/view/objects/asitem/items$0040:24491

Audio Description: Gemini, 1973, by Yoshida Hodaka (Japanese 1926–1989)

Audio Description: Three Windows and Three Front Doors, 1965, by Yoshida Hodaka (Japanese 1926–1989)

Audio Description: Inokashira B (Road), 1986, by Yoshida Hodaka (Japanese 1926–1989)

Audio Description: Red Wall, 1992, by Yoshida Hodaka (Japanese 1926–1989)

Audio Description: Introduction to Color Trip: Yoshida Hodakas Modern Prints

Queer Pasts and Futures: Experimental Films with Việt Lê and TT Takemoto

Asian Art Museum 2022-11-18 | Việt Lê and TT Takemoto share some of their short experimental films and discuss their work as it relates to the past and future. Both artists are known for experimental cinematic work that often employs music, dance, fantasy, and humor as means of expanding queer perspectives on archives, politics, and historical trauma. Moderated by Megan Merritt, project manager for contemporary art and co-curator of the special exhibition Seeing Gender at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco: exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/seeing-gender

About the Artists
TT Takemoto is an artist, filmmaker, and scholar exploring hidden dimensions of same–sex intimacy and trauma in Asian and Asian American history. Takemoto conjures up immersive queer historical fantasies by manipulating found footage and engaging with tactile dimensions of the archive. Takemoto is dean of Humanities and Sciences at California College of the Arts and a board member of the Queer Cultural Center.

Việt Lê is an artist, writer, and curator whose work centers on spiritualities, healing, and sexualities with a focus on Southeast Asia and its diasporas. He is the author of “Return Engagements: Contemporary Art’s Traumas of Modernity and History in Sài Gòn and Phnom Penh” (2021). Lê has presented his work at the Shanghai Biennale, Bangkok Art & Cultural Center, Rio Gay Film Festival, and the Smithsonian, among other venues. He is associate professor of history of art and visual culture and visual and critical studies at California College of the Arts and is a board member of the Queer Cultural Center and Art Matters.

Jali: Lattice of Divine Light, with Navina Najat Haidar

Asian Art Museum 2022-11-17 | In this annual SACHI (Society for Art and Cultural Heritage of India) event, Navina Najat Haidar will discuss jali, an exquisitely carved stone or latticed screen, which is a feature of Mughal architecture. Usually crafted from sandstone or marble, jalis shape the atmosphere of sacred spaces, augment the grandeur of palaces, provide protection, and offer privacy within courtly settings. The ornamental patterns of Mughal jali screens draw on the compositional rhythms of arabesques and geometry to create extraordinary visual effects with filtered light in interior and exterior spaces. 

This talk will explore the legacy of Mughal jalis, focusing on their symbolic meanings and styles under the dynamic patrons of the time, such as the saint Muhammad Ghaus, whose monumental tomb at Gwalior is a vision of dappled light in keeping with his mystical Sufi order; empress Nur Jahan’s innovative tomb for her parents at Agra; and Shah Jahan, who transformed the jali style from the language of celestial geometry into organic gardens of paradisiacal inspiration. Haidar will discuss modern jali patrons, including Americans Doris Duke and Stuart Cary Welch, and contemporary artists who reclaimed the style in new ways. Little-known sites as well as famous monuments will be presented with new photography.

About the Speaker
Navina Najat Haidar is Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah Curator in Charge of the Department of Islamic Art at the  Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she organized the exhibitions Workshop and Legacy: Stanley William Hayter, Krishna Reddy, Zarina Hashmi (2016); Art of India’s Deccan Sultans; 1500-1700, Opulence and Fantasy (2015); Treasures from India; and Gems and Jewels in the Al-Thani collection (2014). Haidar’s future projects include a book on the pierced window screen (jali) in Indo-Islamic architecture (forthcoming 2022).

Music as Conversation with Vân-Ánh Võ and the Blood Moon Orchestra

Asian Art Museum 2022-11-08 | Award-winning Vietnamese composer and traditional multi-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Võ presents “Resilience: Building Strength through Community Experiences,” the second installment of two interactive performances. Together with special guest artist Charya Burt, and Võ’s musical collective, Blood Moon Orchestra, Võ will share stories of immigrant communities’ resilience through music and movement. 

This program is presented in partnership with the Vietnamese American Non-Governmental Organization (VANGO) Network and Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN).

About the Artists
Vân-Ánh Võ is an award-winning composer and master instrumentalist, whose music blends the unique sounds of Vietnamese traditional instruments with other musical genres. She has collaborated with the Kronos Quartet, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and the Oakland Symphony and has presented her music at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center. She co-composed music for the Academy Award–nominated “Daughter from Danang” (2002) and the Emmy Award-winning soundtrack for “Bolinao 52” (2008). Her latest CD, “Three-Mountain Pass,” was selected as one of NPR’s Best 10 World Music CDs of 2013. Võ has received the Artist Laureate Award from Silicon Valley Creates for her dedication to serving communities through the arts. 

Charya Burt is an acclaimed master dancer, choreographer, vocalist, and teacher of classical Cambodian dance who has injected new life into the dance form by creating inventive new works. Following the Khmer Rouge genocide, Burt trained extensively with Cambodia’s foremost surviving dance masters, eventually joining the dance faculty of Cambodia’s Royal University of Fine Arts. Since emigrating in 1993, Burt has performed throughout the United States and has trained thousands of dance students in California. A 2019–2020 Dance/USA Fellow and Isadora Duncan Award recipient for individual performance, she is founder and artistic director of Charya Burt Cambodian Dance. 

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The Reimagined Worlds of Carlos Villa

Asian Art Museum 2022-10-26 | For the closing event of the Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision exhibition, esteemed art historian, curator, and cultural critic Margo Machida gives a presentation based on her contribution to the exhibition. This lecture is followed with a roundtable discussion with Machida, co-curators Mark Dean Johnson and Trisha Lagaso Goldberg, and Asian Art Museum Senior Associate Curator and Head of Contemporary Art Abby Chen. For more info. on the exhibition: exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/carlos-villa-worlds-in-collision

About the Presenters
Margo Machida, PhD is Professor Emerita of Art History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. She has lectured and published widely on her research and served as a curatorial advisor for the inaugural 2017 Honolulu Biennial. Her book, “Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary” (Duke University Press, 2009) received the Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Machida received the 2021 College Art Association Excellence in Diversity Award, and is a co-founder of GODZILLA: Asian American Art Network (1990–2001).

Mark Dean Johnson is professor of art at San Francisco State University. He was the principal editor of “Asian American Art: A History, 1850–1970” (2008) and cocurator, coeditor, and coauthor of exhibitions and related catalogs including Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900–1970, de Young Museum (2008); China’s Changing Landscape, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet in Skärhamn, Sweden (2014); Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan, Noguchi Museum (2019); Chang Dai-chien: From Heart to Hand, Asian Art Museum (2019); and When I Remember I See Red: American Indian Art and Activism in California, Crocker Art Museum (2019).

Trisha Lagaso Goldberg is co-curator of Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision, and former Director of Curatorial Affairs for the FOR-SITE Foundation. Her curatorial projects include Tropical Disturbance for the Luggage Store (2018) and Sino Ka/Ano Ka: San Francisco Babaylan which was co-curated with Carlos Villa for San Francisco State University and the Museo Ng Maynila (1998). Lagaso Goldberg was the founding director of the thirtyninehotel gallery in Honolulu, and recently co-curated Lands End, featuring the work of 27 international artists addressing the climate crisis and presented within the context of the historic Cliff House in San Francisco.

Abby Chen is the head of contemporary art and senior associate curator at the Asian Art Museum. Chen’s team opened the 2020 museum expansion with an exhibition by Zheng Chongbin, public commissions by Jenifer K Wofford and Chanel Miller, and the inaugural rotation of the contemporary art permanent collection gallery, featuring Jayashree Chakravarty and Lam Tung Pang, amongst other projects. She previously served as Artistic Director and Deputy Director for the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, where she led a transformation of the community organization into a leading global platform for contemporary art exhibitions and public projects.

Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis with Dr. Padma Kaimal

Asian Art Museum 2022-09-27 | Beautiful and broken pieces of goddess sculptures that once shared a temple in northern Tamilnadu, India sit now in eleven different museums across North America and Western Europe. The Brahmani figure in the Asian Art Museum’s collection may have been one of them. She journeyed with the group to Paris in the 1920’s, and yet she is an older kind of goddess than most of them — a mother goddess rather than a yogini — embodying different concepts of divine female power. Dr. Padma Kaimal will talk about the group and explore whether they once shared a temple.

About the Speaker
Dr. Padma Kaimal is the Batza Family Chair in Art History at Colgate University. Her research questions common assumptions about art from the Tamil region. Did kings build the only architecture that matters? Did men? Are the boundaries of India’s modern states meaningful for understanding beautiful temples of the past? How do narrative sculptures tell their stories? Are fierce goddesses demonic? Are museums the problem, the solution, or both to contentions over cultural property? Her first book, Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis (Ann Arbor: Association of Asian Studies, 2012) challenges categories of East and West, victim and thief, as it traces the worship, ruination, dispersal, and re-enshrinement of nineteen sculptures from a tenth-century goddess temple. For more info: calendar.asianart.org/event/scattered-goddesses-travels-with-the-yoginis

Asian Art Museum 2021-2022 Year in Review

Asian Art Museum 2022-09-22 | This year taught us how to museum differently — with art you can touch, hear, groove to, be inspired by and connect with. From the immersive wonderlands of teamLab, to the visually magical worlds of Carlos Villa, it’s art you can experience.

Sound/scapes: Jin Sangtae August 13 Performance

Asian Art Museum 2022-09-13 | Known as one of Asia’s most prominent experimental sound artists, Seoul-based Jin Sangtae improvises using amplified disk drives, radio, laptop, and other devices. This one-time performance takes place in the unique setting of an empty gallery between exhibitions, opening up possibilities to collectively experience space, visuals, and sound. Presented in partnership with 23five.

Sound/scapes invites artists to reimagine artworks and spaces at the museum through performance.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Jin Sangtae founded dotolim (닻올림), a small space in Seoul for improvised music, and has been organizing the dotolim concert series since 2008. He performs with non-musical objects collected through his experience that he has repurposed into instruments. The artist uses hard drives and materials configured into a main instrument, along with laptops, radios, and hacked electronics.

Sound/scapes: Theresa Wong August 18 Performance

Asian Art Museum 2022-09-13 | Bay Area composer, cellist, and vocalist Theresa Wong reinterprets artworks in the museum’s collection through the medium of sound in three site-specific performances of newly composed and improvised work.

In collaboration with performer Kanoko Nishi-Smith, Wong strikes parallels between string and brushwork techniques as seen in Japanese and Chinese paintings in the collection. Inspired by the works of Uragami Gyokudo, Tokuyama Gyokuran, and Chiura Obata, the duo will perform in the second-floor Tateuchi Japanese galleries on bass koto, electric guitar, and cello.

Draw with Reina Activity Packs

Asian Art Museum 2022-08-31 | Explore our galleries with fresh eyes! Grab one of our new Draw with Reina Activity Packs, filled with personal art supplies, including colored pencils, paper, and erasers, and let your imagination be your guide.

Pick up a Draw with Reina Activity Pack at the information desk to sketch or doodle in the galleries.

Plan your visit: go.asianart.org/PlanYourVisit

Asian Improv aRts’ 35th Anniversary Festival of Music and Dance (Part 2 of 2)

Asian Art Museum 2022-08-11 | Featuring Melody Takata (taiko), Marina Fukushima (dance film), Francis Wong (saxophone) with Kioto Aoki, Tatsu Aoki (taiko / shamisen), Karl Evangelista, Christopher Lam (Vietnamese Monochord – Đàn Bầu), Jacqueline Lam (Vietnamese zither – Đàn Tranh), William Roper (tuba), Karen Stackpole (multiple percussion), Melody Takata

For 35 years, Asian Improv aRts (AIR) has been at the forefront of advancing Asian and Asian American artists, activism, and culture. Come join us for two unique programs of music, dance, and film that bring together a national lineup representing multiple generations of AIR artists to celebrate this historic milestone and look forward to the future with radical imagination.

About Asian Improv aRts (AIR)
Since 1987, Asian Improv aRts (AIR) has built a national cross-cultural, interdisciplinary community rooted in social justice and equity, advancing artists who create innovative works representing authentic Asian and Asian American experiences. Over its 35 years, AIR has produced more than 100 recordings of Asian American artists, chronicling a legacy of Asian artistic excellence in the U.S. It has mentored many artists in their early stages, some of whom are now luminaries in their field, such as Vijay Iyer and Jen Shyu.

Asian Improv aRts’ 35th Anniversary Festival of Music and Dance (Part 1 of 2)

Asian Art Museum 2022-08-11 | Featuring Karl Evangelista (guitar) & Ben Goldberg (clarinet), Kioto Aoki (taiko/percussion), and YiTing Gama Hsu & Hien Huynh (dance).

For 35 years, Asian Improv aRts (AIR) has been at the forefront of advancing Asian and Asian American artists, activism, and culture. Come join us for two unique programs of music, dance, and film that bring together a national lineup representing multiple generations of AIR artists to celebrate this historic milestone and look forward to the future with radical imagination.

About Asian Improv aRts (AIR)
Since 1987, Asian Improv aRts (AIR) has built a national cross-cultural, interdisciplinary community rooted in social justice and equity, advancing artists who create innovative works representing authentic Asian and Asian American experiences. Over its 35 years, AIR has produced more than 100 recordings of Asian American artists, chronicling a legacy of Asian artistic excellence in the U.S. It has mentored many artists in their early stages, some of whom are now luminaries in their field, such as Vijay Iyer and Jen Shyu.

Sound/scapes: Theresa Wong July 14 Performance

Asian Art Museum 2022-08-03 | Bay Area composer, cellist, and vocalist Theresa Wong reimagines artworks in the museum’s collection through the medium of sound with three site-specific performances of newly composed and improvised work.

In creating this piece for cello drone and voice, Wong researched representations of Guanyin, or Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion that appears throughout various cultures. The experience invites audiences to contemplate and observe their surroundings deeply.

Learn more about sound/scapes and upcoming performances at: calendar.asianart.org/event/sound-scapes-theresa-wong-august-18

Conversations on Carlos Villa: World-Making and Cross-Cultural Solidarity

Asian Art Museum 2022-08-01 | Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision opens with a celebratory day-long event inspired by Villa’s multidisciplinary practice as artist, teacher, curator, activist, and community organizer. Featuring wide-ranging discussions punctuated by readings and performances, this gathering aims to engage and invigorate the community in the spirit of Villa’s historical symposia, performances, and gatherings. It highlights a multiplicity of voices, identities, and perspectives, honoring Villa’s call for a more inclusive and multicultural art world,. Artists, poets, and thinkers across generations and geographies come together to discuss and celebrate issues that were central to Villa’s life and career, including world-making, trans-cultural solidarity, critical pedagogy, and radical hope.

EVENTS
Opening ritual performance by Alleluia Panis
Opening reading by Kim Shuck
Panel Discussion: Radical Carlos Villa: Artist, Activist, Teacher, Mentor, Friend with
Theo Gonzalves, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, and Brett Cook
Reception and Talk Story: Reminiscences from peers, friends, students, and mentees
Panel Discussion: The Future of Hope: Legacy and Lineage with
Việt Lê, Erina Alejo, and Kathy Zarur
Closing reading by Tongo Eisen-Martin

Following the program, multidisciplinary artist Rachel Lastimosa leads a procession to the San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery for the opening reception of Carlos Villa: Roots and Reinvention. For more info: calendar.asianart.org/event/conversations-on-carlos-villa-world-making-and-cross-cultural-solidarity

Discover Mongolia Through Film, Dance, and Music

Asian Art Museum 2022-07-29 | The short film Aimuldir, Soul of the Burkitshi tells the story of a young Mongolian girl who defies tradition to pursue her dream of becoming an eagle hunter. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Filmmakers Oliver Klink and Jackson Nichols. The program also features a traditional dance performance from the Mongolian Community Association of Bay Area and music performed on the morin khuur. With a special welcome from the Mongolian Consulate in celebration of their 10th anniversary in San Francisco.

About Our Guests
Oliver Klink‘s studies in physics and photography were the catalyst for his love of light and the complexity of our existence. As a fine art photographer, he travels the world to capture the intricacy of our ecosystems, our cultural changes, the environments we inhabit, and the insights into our world and ourselves. His 2019 book, “Cultures In Transition” won nine awards for best photography book. Originally from Switzerland, he currently lives in Los Gatos with his wife.  

Jackson Nichols is a graphic designer and an avid documentary and fine art photographer and videographer, who seeks to reveal the magical moments that transcend the commonplace, defining the character and culture of a story. He recently exhibited his work at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock, California in conjunction with his documentary “FESTA – A Celebration of Culture and Faith.” He recently premiered his new film “The Dream” documenting the formation of a new Portuguese bullfight event in California’s Central Valley. Jackson lives in Fremont, CA with his wife Dianna and their dog Roxy.

The Bay Area Mongolian Association is a non-profit organization founded in 2003. Their goal is to preserve Mongolian customs and traditions abroad, to pass them on to future generations, and to teach young people Mongolian language, history, customs, and traditions. For more info: calendar.asianart.org/event/discover-mongolia-through-film-dance-and-music/?time=1657483200

World Premier: Lenora Lee Dance Presents “Convergent Waves: SF

Asian Art Museum 2022-07-28 | From award-winning multimedia dance company Lenora Lee Dance comes its newest site-responsive performance piece, “Convergent Waves: SF.” At this world premiere event, you will be guided through a journey set in the Asian Art Museum, where stories of community agency, resilience, and transformation unfold. The dance, to music by Vijay Iyer, Tatsu Aoki, and Francis Wong, is a collective statement for the preservation of community, as neighborhoods across the country face cultural erosion, loss of businesses, and displacement as a result of both the pandemic and ongoing gentrification.

About the Artist
Lenora Lee Dance (LLD), directed by San Francisco native Lenora Lee, integrates contemporary dance, film, music, and research. It has gained attention for its sustained pursuit of issues related to immigration, incarceration, and global conflict and their impacts, particularly on women and families. For the past 14 years, the company has been pushing the envelope of large-scale multimedia and immersive dance performance that connect various styles of movement and music to culture, history, and human rights issues. Its work has grown to encompass the creation, presentation, and screening of films; museum and gallery installations; civic engagement; and educational programming.

Lenora Lee has been a dancer, choreographer, and artistic director for the past 23 years in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. She has been an artist fellow at the de Young Museum, a Djerassi Resident Artist, a visiting scholar at New York University, an artist-in-residence at Dance Mission Theater, and a 2019 United States Artists Fellow. For more info: calendar.asianart.org/event/thursday-nights-lenora-lee-dance-presents-convergent-waves-sf/?time=1654822800

Seeing Gender — What is Gender?

Asian Art Museum 2022-07-20 | Look at the museum collection through a new lens with "Seeing Gender," a focused selection that reveals the complexities and nuances of gender across Asian art.

Learn more: go.asianart.org/SeeingGender

Sound/scapes: Theresa Wong on Carlos Villa

Asian Art Museum 2022-07-06 | Cellist/vocalist Theresa Wong performs new work inspired by artworks in the collection.

Wong draws from conversations about identity and multiculturalism to respond to Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision, the first major museum retrospective dedicated to the work of a Filipino American artist. For this performance with cello and voice, she creates a visual score to draw out a personal musical language drawn from images, sounds, and stories.

Learn more about sound/scapes and upcoming performances at calendar.asianart.org/event/sound-scapes-theresa-wong-june-16

Title card image: Theresa Wong. Photo by Peter Gannushkin.

Re-History Series: Loss, Hope, and Conservation in Southeast Asian Textiles

Asian Art Museum 2022-07-05 | Colonialism, changing customs, war, and contemporary collecting practices have all impacted the use and meaning of textiles in Southeast Asia. In this online Re-History Series discussion, a panel of experts explores themes of loss, destruction, and conservation during colonial periods as well as the present day. They will discuss efforts to center the makers’ voices and recover from losses through research, conservation, and collaboration.

Speakers
Ruth Barnes, Thomas Jaffe Curator of Indo-Pacific Art, Yale University  
Julia Brennan, Founder, Caring for Textiles 
Cherubim Quizon, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Seton Hall University 
Sandra Sardjono, Founder and Director, Tracing Patterns Foundation
Facilitated by Natasha Reichle, Associate Curator of Southeast Asian Art, Asian Art Museum

About the Panelists
Ruth Barnes is the inaugural Thomas Jaffe Curator of Indo-Pacific Art and a member of the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University. She received her doctorate from Oxford University and was previously textile curator at the Ashmolean Museum, where she organized exhibitions on Asian and Islamic textiles, early Indian Ocean trade, and the theme of pilgrimage. Her publications include “The Ikat Textiles of Lamalera” and “Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.” Her most recent book, “Five Centuries of Indonesian Textiles,” co-edited with Mary Kahlenberg, received the R. L. Shep Award in 2010. 

Since 2000, Julia Brennan has developed grass-roots cultural heritage preservation projects with communities in Southeast Asia, Bhutan, Madagascar, and Algeria. Her project and publication “Our Ancestors Knew Best” gathers traditional textile preservation methods and materials in Asia to integrate this knowledge into present-day practices. She has trained local stakeholders in Rwanda and Cambodia to establish site-specific protocols for triage and care of victims’ textile remains. Brennan started her career in 1985 at the Textile Museum in Washington D.C. and founded Caring for Textiles in 1996. 

Cherubim Quizon studies how ideas of nation, ethnicity, and the self relate to symbols and their transformation, whether approached as material culture, art, or popular imagery. Her principal research is on the textiles and dress of the Bagobo of Mindanao, the Philippines, using multisite fieldwork to understand contemporary indigenous textile practices while critically engaging with American museum collections from the 1900s. She broadly explores the politics of representation whether in living anthropological displays of peoples in World’s Fairs; in tropes of indigenism and dictatorship in 20th-century painting; and in lexical and visual signifiers for indigenous peoples in the 21st century that diverge from indigenous modes of self-ascription.

Natasha Reichle specializes in the art and architecture of Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on Indonesia and island Southeast Asia. She curated the exhibition, Weaving Stories, which drew from the museum’s collection of Southeast Asian textiles, and used archival images, macro-photography, and poetry to illuminate the role of textiles as markers of identity, objects of status, and symbols of faith. Reichle’s other recent exhibitions at the museum include Lost at Sea: Art Recovered from Shipwrecks and Philippine Art: Collecting Art, Collecting Memories.

Sandra Sardjono is the founder and president of the Tracing Patterns Foundation, a nonprofit cultural organization based in Berkeley, California. The organization promotes textile studies and indigenous scholarships through international collaborations. Sardjono is also an independent scholar and curator with a special interest in Indonesian textile history and weaving technology. She earned her doctorate in art history from the University of California, Berkeley.  

This program is part of the Asian Art Museum Re-History Series, which critically examines the history of the museum and its collections with consideration of race, colonialism, and power. For more info: calendar.asianart.org/event/re-history-series-loss-hope-and-conservation-in-southeast-asian-textiles/?time=1656176400

The Journey (سفر) Mural Unveiling

Asian Art Museum 2022-06-30 | The Journey (سفر) by Shaghayegh Cyrous and Keyvan Shovir is inspired by “The Conference of Birds” (“Mantegh o Teir”), a Persian poem by 12th-century Iranian Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, also known as Attar Neyshaburi. In the poem, a hoopoe, a bird common in Africa, Asia, and Europe, leads the other birds on a journey to find the truth of life from Simurgh, a mythical bird in Persian mythology and literature. At the end of the journey, the birds discover that the truth they were looking for is within themselves, and that together they are the Simurgh. 

Co-presented with Diaspora Arts Connection, a nonprofit organization that supports the expression of artists living in diaspora . The organization strives to fulfill its mission through producing and promoting performances and installations, providing artists with the necessary resources to bring their art to a receptive and supportive audience, and preparing them to continue their professional growth in diaspora.

ABOUT THE VILLAGE ARTIST CORNER
The Journey (سفر) is the final mural on the Village Artist Corner, a project of the Asian Art Museum and the San Francisco Public Library. Now in its fifth year, the Village Artist Corner features murals and live programs on the corner of Fulton and Larkin Streets. The Village Artist Corner dragon sculpture and mural platform were created by high school students in Youth Art Exchange as part of Groundplay, a City initiative co-led by the Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation, the San Francisco Planning Department, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Join us as we celebrate this incredible mural and say farewell to an important series of public artworks and programs that have been an anchor of Civic Center community life. 

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
Aisan Hoss is a dancer and choreographer from Tehran, Iran. She started studying and performing Iranian dances at the age of twelve and teaching at the age of eighteen. She has years of experience studying, dancing, and teaching in Iran, London, and the Bay Area. For Aisan, her passion in dance and choreography has been a means for gaining insight into her identity as an Iranian living outside of her home country. Several of her choreographies have explored the ways that physical distance from her home country provides a deeper sense of intimacy with its cultural essence. Aisan uses movement as a tool to find beauty in her history and identity. Inspired by modern Iranian culture, she aims to give voice to the quietest elements of her culture through choreography. 

Following a residency at Ballet Afsaneh as the company’s Assistant Artistic Director, choreographer, and dancer, Aisan founded her own dance company, Aisan Hoss and Dancers.

Kurdish musician and actress Evin Şah was born in 1979 in the village of Muş Yürecik (Zengök). She graduated from the Department of Turkish Music and Folk Music at Istanbul University State Conservatory in 2007. She studied under Fatma Karacan while teaching voice lessons. Evin has acted and performed in numerous television series and films in Turkey. She is a multi-language and -dialect artist. She and her musician husband Oktay Şahin live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision - Now On View

Asian Art Museum 2022-06-22 | "Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision" celebrates the exuberant work and enduring influence of San Francisco artist Carlos Villa (1936–2013). The first major museum retrospective dedicated to the work of a Filipino American artist, it celebrates Villa’s exuberant work and enduring influence as a teacher, curator, and activist.

"Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision" now on view. exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/carlos-villa-worlds-in-collision

Soundtrack used: Bahay Kubo by Theo Gonzalves

Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision

Asian Art Museum 2022-06-11 | "Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision" celebrates the exuberant work and enduring influence of San Francisco artist Carlos Villa (1936–2013). The first major museum retrospective dedicated to the work of a Filipino American artist, it celebrates Villa’s exuberant work and enduring influence as a teacher, curator, and activist.

"Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision" opens June 17. Learn more: exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/carlos-villa-worlds-in-collision

Dialog Now and Then: Korean Embroidery with Artist Miran Lim Lee

Asian Art Museum 2022-05-27 | Fabric artist Miran Lim Lee discusses Korean embroidery and her new work, "Dialog Now and Then."

Additional footage provided by National Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 87: Myeongju Jjagi (Silk Weaving), by Heritage Administration / Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation / K-Heritage.tv

Music
몽환 Dream like Fantasy
Composed and Performed by 첼로가야금 CelloGayageum

Immigration Stories of Asian American Women: Here Is Happiness

Asian Art Museum 2022-05-25 | “We risk critical misunderstanding of each other when we reduce complex human beings and situations to a single narrative.” — Chimananda Ngozi Adichie

Grab a cocktail or a cup of tea and watch experienced storytellers perform hopeful immigration stories in celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Alton Chung, Eleanor Clement Glass, and Janet Liu bring to life the diverse immigrant experiences of Asian American women with compelling stories about an early 20th-century Japanese mail-order bride, a Filipina World War I bride, and a young girl leaving her home in Taiwan in the 1960s. This program is recommended for ages 16 and up, but the whole family is welcome.

About the Storytellers
Japanese Korean storyteller Alton Takiyama-Chung grew up with the superstitions and the magic of the Hawaiian Islands. He tells stories from Hawaii, as well as Asian folktales, ghost stories, stories about Japanese American experiences during WWII, and stories of Chinese immigration to the United States. He has performed at the Timpanogas and the National Storytelling Festivals, and at international storytelling festivals in the Cayman Islands, Singapore, Vietnam, India, and Thailand. He is a former chairman of the board of directors of the National Storytelling Network, the national organization for storytellers in the U.S.

Eleanor Clement Glass delights children with folktales from around the world as a storyteller and school tour docent at the Asian Art Museum and as a teaching artist with Stagebridge’s Storybridge program in Oakland, Pinole, and San Jose public elementary schools. She has performed personal stories from her Black and Filipina cultures at the 2020 and 2021 National Storytelling Conference, Artists Standing Strong Together, and local community venues, including The Marsh and Silk Road. In 2019, she joined Eth-Noh-Tec’s international storytelling tour, exchanging goodwill and stories with local storytellers in China and South Korea.

Janet Liu grew up listening to her grandmother’s stories in Taiwan, and then moved with her family to the United States when she was 10 years old. She faced many challenges, including learning a new language, adjusting to a different culture, and making friends. However, she was able to take advantage of educational opportunities and leverage them into well-paying jobs. Now she is retired, with an adult daughter, and finds herself telling stories of a different culture, time, and context. Her story is featured on the website of The Immigrant Story, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C.

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CAAMFest 40: Rice and Asian Americana

Asian Art Museum 2022-05-25 | Rice farmer Robin Koda and wheat farmer Mai Nguyen join chef and cookbook author Diep Tran for a conversation about the complex role of rice in the formation of Asian Americana. In popular culture, rice plays many roles, from a crop that symbolizes the ingenuity, thrift, and resilience of Asian American farmers to a food that represents Asian American cuisine as a whole. In this event co-presented by CAAM, we’ll explore the many narratives of rice and consider if these stories expand, or narrow, our understanding of Asian American culture.

About Our Guests
Robin Koda grew up on the family farm, walking paddy levees to find birds’ nests and catch crayfish. Today, as a co-owner/operator of the oldest rice farm and mill in California, she often shares the nuances and richly storied history of rice, rooted in familial ties. Keisaburo Koda, Robin’s grandfather, immigrated from Japan in 1908, and earned acclaim in California as the “Rice King.” The forced relocation and imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II resulted in the loss of the family’s land, processing plant, equipment, and homes. Nevertheless, they persevered, rebuilding and expanding their product lines after the war. Approaching its centennial, Koda Farms maintains a robust legacy of commitment to high-quality food production.

Mai Nguyen is an independent farm owner/operator and social justice activist. They grow heirloom grain in Sonoma County and advocate for cooperative economics in the food system and racially equitable farm policy in California. Nguyen is also co-director of Minnow, an organization focused on securing land tenure for farmers of color and indigenous people. Instagram: @farmermainguyen.

Diep Tran comes from a family of restaurateurs and chefs. She has been a longtime advocate for workers’ rights in the restaurant industry. She is the founder of the Banh Chung Collective, an annual queer-centric celebration of the Lunar New Year. Most recently, she co-authored “The Red Boat Fish Sauce Cookbook,“ one of NPR’s 2021 Books We Love. She is currently the R&D chef for Red Boat Fish Sauce. She has been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Lucky Peach, Saveur, the Netflix series “Ugly Delicious,“ KCET’s “Migrant Kitchen,“ and HBOMax’s “Take Out with Lisa Ling.“

Sound/scapes: Theresa Wong

Asian Art Museum 2022-05-25 | Bay Area composer, cellist, and vocalist Theresa Wong reinterprets artworks in the museum’s collection through the medium of sound in three site-specific performances of newly composed and improvised work.

About the Artist
Theresa Wong is a composer, cellist, and vocalist active at the intersection of improvisation, composition, and the synergy of multiple disciplines. Her works include “As We Breathe,” an installed song commissioned by Long Beach Opera; “She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees,” commissioned by pianist Sarah Cahill; and ”Harbors,” co-composed with Long String Instrument inventor Ellen Fullman and chosen as one of Wire‘s top 50 releases of 2020. Recent commissions include works for San Francisco Girls Chorus, NakedEye Ensemble, and Del Sol String Quartet. Wong has shared her work internationally at venues including Café Oto (London), The Stone (New York), and Centennial Hall (Sydney).

Additional Performances at the Asian Art Museum:
July 14, 2022
August 18, 2022

For more info: calendar.asianart.org/event/sound-scapes-theresa-wong-june-16

Roobina Karode on Memento

Asian Art Museum 2022-05-25 | Join Roobina Karode, director and chief curator of the Kiran Nadar Museum in New Delhi, and Abby Chen, head of contemporary art at the Asian Art Museum, for a conversation about the exhibition Memento: Jayashree Chakravarty and Lam Tung Pang. They discuss Personal Space (2001), Chakravarty’s work on view, and its sister piece in the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA). The KNMA is the first private museum of modern and contemporary art in India.

Memento: Jayashree Chakravarty and Lam Tung Pang is on view now through June 6.

Meditation: The Practice of Metta, or Loving Kindness

Asian Art Museum 2022-05-23 | Metta, or loving kindness, is considered one of the Four Brahma Viharas or Divine Abodes. It is one of the characteristics to be cultivated by those who aspire to embody the teachings of the Buddha, and it is said to bring great benefits to the self and to the world. Metta rejects the binaries of us and them, friend and foe, worthy and unworthy, and reminds us of our connection to the great web of life in which we are embedded. In these difficult and challenging times, when so much fear and uncertainty arises, we are called to respond to the local and the global, tending to ourselves and to the wider world around us. Join us as we renew our commitment to the well-being of all sentient life, including our own.

ABOUT THE TEACHERS
Arisika  Razak is professor emerita and the former chair of the Women’s Spirituality Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is a core teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, California, and a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner Program. Her teachings incorporate diverse spiritual traditions, multicultural feminisms, and contemporary diversity theory. She has facilitated spiritual, healing, and empowerment workshops for over 30 years and presents at numerous conferences on the subjects of womanism, diversity, women’s health and healing, and embodied spiritual traditions.  

Evelie Delfino Såles Posch is a devoted chanter, certified sound therapist and pranic healer, music teacher, sacred song composer, and ritualist. Posch’s music ministry brings her to assisted living and rehabilitation centers, hospitals, retirement homes, and prisons. More info on the Asian Art Museum: http://asianart.org

Resilience: Building Strength through Community Experiences with Vân-Ánh Võ and Blood Moon Orchestra

Asian Art Museum 2022-05-17 | Performance at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, May 15, 2022

Award-winning Vietnamese composer and traditional multi-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Võ together with Võ’s musical collective, Blood Moon Orchestra, shares stories of immigrants’ resilience through music and movement.

With:
Jimi Nakagawa
Joel Davel
Kev Choice
Babatunji Johnson

This program is supported by a grant from the California Arts Council.

Art You Can Hear and Move To

Asian Art Museum 2022-05-13 | #MuseumDifferently and experience art through sound and movement! From site-specific compositions to interactive performances, the Asian Art Museum will be bursting with energetic visual arts and innovative artists this season. Watch this short video to get a sneak peek of art you can hear and groove to!

Find more upcoming programs at asianart.org/art-you-can.

Asian Art Museum American Sign Language (ASL)Tour Press Release (May 2022)

Asian Art Museum 2022-05-12 | View the American Sign Language (ASL) Tour of the Asian Art Museum on YouTube (youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNH1LadclaZpyDM1WAiJNZIxjSwTo-BeR) or download onto your mobile device via the Asian Art Museum's mobile guide (about.asianart.org/plan-your-visit/mobile-guide)

Press Release in English:
San Francisco, April 15, 2022 — The Asian Art Museum is excited to deepen its ongoing accessibility initiatives with an original American Sign Language (ASL) digital tour of its celebrated masterpieces, available on Apr. 15 for free via the Asian Art Museum app, as well as on YouTube. The tour was produced in close consultation with Sam Sepah, who works as a lead accessibility research product manager in Silicon Valley and provided leadership and expertise in accessibility best practices as they intersect with digital technology. Members of the Bay Area Asian Deaf Association (BAADA) and Linda Bove, who played the beloved deaf librarian from 1971 to 2002 on “Sesame Street,” were also key participants in developing the new tour, which showcases some of the rarest and most intriguing artworks on view at the museum.

Each of the 17 stops on the tour function as an introduction to certain collection galleries, museum masterpieces, or contemporary works. By creating videos featuring a filmed signer discussing artworks in ASL—rather than simply providing closed captions for visitors who are deaf—those who are native to and/or favor ASL will be able to experience the museum in their preferred language.

“From a lustrous jade cup enjoyed by Mughal emperors, to a glittering gilded Buddha, to a glorious Burmese Buddha throne, to my personal favorite, an ancient Chinese bronze rhinoceros fit for a king or queen, our masterpieces structure every visit as one of discovery, helping connect the dots between past and present,” says Dr. Jay Xu, The Barbara Bass Bakar Director and CEO of the Asian Art Museum. “Equal participation is a fundamental value of our museum, and this tour is wonderful way for us to ensure we are accessible to everyone who comes through our doors or who visits us online.”

“Launching the ASL tour with the museum’s designated masterpieces made sense, since they light a pathway through a large, extremely diverse collection, meaning deaf adults and children can enjoy the museum in an equitable way,” says Sepah, who also coordinated casting and input from the deaf community. “This tour underscores for everyone the fundamental pleasures of visiting a community hub like the Asian Art Museum, but does so on visitors’ own terms and in a style that matches their needs, opening up new opportunities for lifelong learning for all.”

The production of the tour was led by Asian Art Museum Senior Interpretive Planner Lorraine Goodwin, who also spearheaded the current suite of in-gallery digital interpretive tools, including videos and tablets. “Research began in July of 2021, and the extensive community input from members of BAADA, Sam Sepah, and Linda Bove was essential to ensure the tour we developed is as inclusive, accessible, and, best of all, enjoyable as possible,” says Goodwin. “ASL interpreter Churyl Zeviar and video producers Adam Kennedy and Dwight Burks were also instrumental in creating this tour—they worked closely with our deaf experts and integrated their perspectives with openness and respect that was critical to the project’s success.”

The new tour builds on previous accessibility initiatives developed by the museum in partnership with community and advocacy groups. These initiatives include “tactile translations” that allow for visually impaired visitors to feel the outlines of artworks, and special access days with additional guides, interpreters, touch materials, seating, and reduced capacity to enhance the tranquility and intimacy of the museum experience. The most recent access day was Monday, Mar. 28. Download the PDF: about.asianart.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/AAM_ASL_Tour_press_release.pdf

About the Asian Art Museum
Located in the heart of San Francisco, the museum is home to one of the world’s finest collections of Asian art, with more than 18,000 awe-inspiring artworks ranging from ancient jades and ceramics to contemporary video installations. Dynamic special exhibitions, cultural celebrations and public programs for all ages provide rich art experiences that unlock the past and spark questions about the future.

Global Art Dialogues: Intimacy and Empire in Contemporary Practices

Asian Art Museum 2022-04-26 | How has the intersection of family histories, power structures, and artistic expressions shaped visual culture throughout Asia and its diasporas? Asma Kazmi, assistant professor of art practice at the University of California, Berkeley, and artists Zeina Barakeh and Maia Cruz Palileo join in a conversation about sites of these interactions—archives, family lore, architecture, manuscripts—informed by their own practices. The goal of this conversation is to support the efforts of museums, universities, and communities in highlighting the connections between visual art and political and personal histories. We’ll also consider the relationship between state power and the discipline of art history itself. Moderated by Kathy Zarur, associate professor of art history at Skyline College.

Session Name: Global Art Dialogues: Intimacy and Empire in Contemporary Practices
Participants: Zeina Barakeh, Maia Cruz Palileo, Asma Kazmi, Kathy Zarur

Asian Art in ASL: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics

Asian Art Museum 2022-04-14 | American Sign Language (ASL) with English captions. Discover the Contemporary Japanese Ceramics Masterpiece Moment at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco: http://www.asianart.org

Signer: Sam Sepah
ASL Choreographer: Linda Bove
ASL Consultants: Ivanetta Ikeda and Sam Sepah
Project Manager/Casting Director: Sam Sepah
Interpreter: Churyl Zeviar
Executive Producer/Art Director: Lorraine Goodwin
Video Production: Resolution Workshop (Adam Kennedy and Dwight Burks: http://reso.works)
Assistant Editor: Dan Veltri
Production Assistant: Joshua Guerci

Asian Art in ASL: The Buddhist deity Simhavaktra, a dakini

Asian Art Museum 2022-04-14 | American Sign Language (ASL) with English captions. Simhavaktra, the “lion-headed one” is a “sky-walker” (dakini), a magical being who inhabits the realm of the sky. Learn more about this masterpiece in the collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco: http://asianart.emuseum.com/view/objects/asitem/items$0040:11152

Signer: Nan Zhou
ASL Choreographer: Linda Bove
Project Manager/Casting Director: Sam Sepah
Interpreter: Churyl Zeviar
Executive Producer/Art Director: Lorraine Goodwin
Video Production: Resolution Workshop (http://reso.works)
Assistant Editor: Dan Veltri
Production Assistant: Joshua Guerci

Asian Art in ASL: Cup with calligraphic inscriptions

Asian Art Museum 2022-04-14 | American Sign Language (ASL) with English captions. Made of rare white jade, this tiny inscribed cup speaks volumes about the past. To learn more about this masterpiece in the collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco: collections.asianart.org/collection/cup-with-calligraphic-inscriptions

Signer: Sam Sepah
ASL Choreographer: Linda Bove
Project Manager/Casting Director: Sam Sepah
Interpreter: Churyl Zeviar
Executive Producer/Art Director: Lorraine Goodwin
Video Production: Resolution Workshop (Adam Kennedy and Dwight Burks: http://reso.works)
Assistant Editor: Dan Veltri
Production Assistant: Joshua Guerci

Asian Art in ASL: The Hindu deity Vishnu

Asian Art Museum 2022-04-13 | American Sign Language (ASL) with English captions. Discover an imposing and meticulously crafted image of Vishnu, a Hindu deity associated with powerful kingship. Fore more information on this masterpiece in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco's collection: collections.asianart.org/collection/the-hindu-deity-vishnu

Signer: Sinju Engineer
ASL Choreographer: Linda Bove
ASL Consultant/Project Manager/Casting Director: Sam Sepah
Interpreter: Churyl Zeviar
Executive Producer/Art Director: Lorraine Goodwin
Video Production: Resolution Workshop (http://reso.works)
Assistant Editor: Dan Veltri
Production Assistant: Joshua Guerci

Asian Art in ASL: Introduction to Chinese Painting

Asian Art Museum 2022-04-12 | American Sign Language (ASL) with English captions. Discover Chinese painting at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco: http://searchcollection.asianart.org/view/objects/asimages/19400?_ga=2.136517424.1435430461.1649793804-1215189917.1649793804

Signer: Maria Tanya de Guzman
ASL Choreographer: Linda Bove
ASL Consultant/Project Manager/Casting Director: Sam Sepah
Interpreter: Churyl Zeviar
Executive Producer/Art Director: Lorraine Goodwin
Video Production: Resolution Workshop (Adam Kennedy and Dwight Burks: http://reso.works)
Assistant Editor: Dan Veltri
Production Assistant: Joshua Guerci

Interactive Areas of Weaving Stories

Asian Art Museum 2022-04-06 | Experience "Weaving Stories" through interactive areas that illustrate how these textiles were made and used. Touch samples of fabrics to understand how the garments on view felt to the wearer, watch videos demonstrating traditional processes, and get a close-up view of textiles at the magnification station.

At "Weaving Stories," you’ll have a vibrant encounter with one of the oldest and most intimate forms of art. From birth to death, we are swaddled, wrapped, or shrouded in cloth. Textiles not only protect and adorn our homes, our sacred spaces, and our bodies but also communicate identity, status, and faith.

Learn more and plan your visit: exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/weaving-stories

Weaving Stories is organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Presentation is made possible with the generous support of a gift in memory of Murni Soewardho Knoepfel; Walter Jared Frost and David Salman; and Tania and Michael Stepanian.

Art You Can

Asian Art Museum 2022-04-05 | #MuseumDifferently and experience art through your senses! Engage with fresh viewpoints, discover dynamic special exhibitions, and encounter awe-inspiring artworks ranging from ancient jades to contemporary installations.

Learn more about art you can experience, taste, hear, treasure, and more at asianart.org/art-you-can.

Asian Art in ASL: Ewer with lotus shaped lid

Asian Art Museum 2022-03-28 | American Sign Language (ASL) with English captions. Extraordinary color and elegant form unite in this masterpiece of early 12th-century Korean celadon. For more on this masterpiece in the collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco: collections.asianart.org/collection/ewer-with-lotus-shaped-lid

Signer: Wonha Park
ASL Choreographer: Linda Bove
ASL Consultant/Project Manager/Casting Director: Sam Sepah
Interpreter: Churyl Zeviar
Executive Producer/Art Director: Lorraine Goodwin
Video Production: Resolution Workshop (Adam Kennedy and Dwight Burks: http://reso.works)
Assistant Editor: Dan Veltri
Production Assistant: Joshua Guerci

Asian Art in ASL: The Hindu deity Shiva

Asian Art Museum 2022-03-28 | American Sign Language (ASL) with English captions. Discover a mighty god rendered in elegant bronze. For more on this masterpiece in the collection of the Asian Art Museum: collections.asianart.org/collection/the-hindu-deity-shiva

Signer: Sinju Engineer
ASL Choreographer: Linda Bove
ASL Consultant/Project Manager/Casting Director: Sam Sepah
Interpreter: Churyl Zeviar
Executive Producer/Art Director: Lorraine Goodwin
Video Production: Resolution Workshop (http://reso.works)
Assistant Editor: Dan Veltri
Production Assistant: Joshua Guerci

Asian Art in ASL: The bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Asian Art Museum 2022-03-28 | American Sign Language (ASL) with English captions. Discover a 1,000-year-old bodhisattva of compassion, a remarkable example of Song dynasty (960–1279) wood sculpture, in the collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. For more on this masterpiece: collections.asianart.org/collection/guanyin

Signer: Wonha Park
ASL Choreographer: Linda Bove
Project Manager/Casting Director: Sam Sepah
Interpreter: Churyl Zeviar
Executive Producer/Art Director: Lorraine Goodwin
Video Production: Resolution Workshop (http://reso.works)
Assistant Editor: Dan Veltri
Production Assistant: Joshua Guerci

Asian Art in ASL: Lidded jar with design of a lotus pond

Asian Art Museum 2022-03-28 | American Sign Language (ASL) with English captions. Discover why this colorful jar from China is considered a masterpiece in the collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. For more on this masterpiece: http://asianart.emuseum.com/view/objects/asitem/items$0040:5869

Signer: Wonha Park
ASL Choreographer: Linda Bove
ASL Consultant/Project Manager/Casting Director: Sam Sepah
Interpreter: Churyl Zeviar
Executive Producer/Art Director: Lorraine Goodwin
Video Production: Resolution Workshop (http://reso.works)
Assistant Editor: Dan Veltri
Production Assistant: Joshua Guerci

Asian Art in ASL: Crowned and bejeweled Buddha image and throne

Asian Art Museum 2022-03-28 | American Sign Language (ASL) with English captions. Discover a Burmese masterpiece in the collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. For more on this artwork: collections.asianart.org/collection/crowned-and-bejeweled-buddha-image-and-throne

Signer: Maria Tanya de Guzman
ASL Choreographer: Linda Bove
ASL Consultant/Project Manager/Casting Director: Sam Sepah
Interpreter: Churyl Zeviar
Executive Producer/Art Director: Lorraine Goodwin
Video Production: Resolution Workshop (http://reso.works)
Assistant Editor: Dan Veltri
Production Assistant: Joshua Guerci

Asian Art in ASL: Ritual vessel in the shape of a rhinoceros

Asian Art Museum 2022-03-28 | American Sign Language (ASL) with English captions. Discover a rare rhino in the collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. For more on this masterpiece: http://asianart.emuseum.com/view/objects/asitem/items$0040:5145

Signer: Nan Zhou
ASL Choreographer: Linda Bove
Project Manager/Casting Director: Sam Sepah
Interpreter: Churyl Zeviar
Executive Producer/Art Director: Lorraine Goodwin
Video Production: Resolution Workshop (http://reso.works)
Assistant Editor: Dan Veltri
Production Assistant: Joshua Guerci