 | Lectures & Special Events
January 27-28, 2012
- Curator's Circle Symposium -
Galloping Toward the Future - The Art and Times of Xu Beihong
 This symposium examines one of China’s most influential and celebrated artists. Speakers will include Julia F. Andrews, Chen Hao, Huajing Xiu Maske, Kevin McLoughlin, Julie Segraves, Fangfang Xu, and Xu Qingping.
An optional Friday lunch will be available for $18.
Sponsored by the William Sharpless Jackson Jr. Endowment Fund.
Photo credit: Xu Beihong, Group of Horses, 1940. Xu Beihong Memorial Museum.
Friday, January 27: 10 am–5 pm (reception 5–6:30 pm)
Saturday, January 28: 10 am–12:30 pm
Hamilton Building, Lower Level, Denver Art Museum
Free with ticket to Xu Beihong: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting, but reservations are required. Call 720-913-0130.
February 15, 2012
- Lecture -
Bamboo
Curator Ron Otsuka
Dr. Joseph De Heers Curator of Asian Art Ronald Otsuka will speak on Texture and Tradition: Japanese Woven Bamboo, the exhibition currently on display in the Lutz Bamboo Gallery. Woven bamboo is structurally firm but texturally rich and infinitely fascinating in even the most utilitarian applications. Come explore this beautiful art form.
Photo credit: Hayakawa Shokosai V (b. 1932), Tray with Open Weave, Japan; Heisei period, 1997. Bamboo. Denver Art Museum; gift of Paul M. Hoff III and Hazel W. Hoff in memory of Paul M. Hoff Jr.
Wednesday @ Noon: Noon-1pm
C-Level Lecture Room, North Building, Denver Art Museum
Reservations suggested; call 720-913-0040 or email blittle@denverartmuseum.org. Pay at the door. AAA members: free, Teachers & Students: $5, and all others: $10.
February 16, 2012
- Member Event: Artist Talk-
It’s About Relating - It’s About China
WANG Gongxin
 In partnership with The Asian Art Coordinating Council, RedLine is pleased to announce that WANG Gongxin (b. 1960, the godfather of Chinese video art, will open his first U.S. solo show on January 28, 2012 in RedLine’s exhibition spaces. WANG Gongxin is one of China’s earliest and most influential video artists and his innovative conceptual videos reveal a deeply personal critique of contemporary life in China today. This exhibition curated by Dr. Julie Seagraves (Asian Art Coordinating Council) will bring visitors through ancient to contemporary Chinese culture through four large-scale video installations.
The exhibition will begin in RedLine’s Project Space with My Sun, a three-channel panoramic screen that uses the metaphor of an old Chinese peasant woman to explain what Segraves calls, “the pursuit of the unobtainable in life.” The final and perhaps culminating piece of the exhibition is It’s About Ya. This nine-channel sound and video installation will dominate over half of the large gallery space at RedLine, fusing the beautiful with the disturbing through rapid editing and chaotic sequences.  The images selected for It’s About Ya draw from Wang’s personal life, but the result speaks more significantly to the state of Chinese culture today.
At this event and reception sponsored by Redline, the AACC, and the Asian Art Association, listen to the artist speak on his work.
WANG Gongxin was born in Beijing in 1960. He received his Bachelor of Arts at the Capital Normal University in China. He has also been a guest professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing from 2003-2009.
About the Asian Art Coordinating Council
The Asian Art Coordinating Council (AACC) was incorporated in 1987 as a non-profit organization dedicated to generating new bonds of understanding between Asians and Americans through art exhibits and cultural programs. AACC is best known for developing and implementing the annual Contemporary Asian Art Exhibition series (CAAE), the only event of its kind in the US featuring contemporary Asian art at museums and non-profit galleries and art centers. Art from the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, and Japan have been featured.
About RedLine
RedLine, a Section 501(c)(3) public charity, is a diverse urban laboratory where contemporary art, education and community converge, with a vision to foster forms of social practice in the arts that inspire inquiry and catalyze change. Located in Denver’s Historic Five Points neighborhood, RedLine combines an artist residency program with project-based community engagement in art.
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Image 1: It’s About Relating - It’s About China (video still), Image 2: Wang Gongxin. Photo Credits: Wang Gongxin
Thursday: 6-8pm
RedLine Gallery | 2350 Arapahoe Street, Denver CO 80205
Complimentary to AAA members. Upper-level AAA members (bronze, silver, & gold) may bring a guest.
March 3, 2012
- Member Road Trip -
CU Art Museum Boulder
Korean Contemporary Art
Save the Date!
Time: TBA
Logistics: TBA
April 11-14, 2012
- Lecture & Workshops -
Sumi-e: Traditions and Anticipation
Shuzo Sato
 Shozo Sato, a recipient of the Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Emperor of Japan, has spent his lifetime both in teaching and creating Japanese Traditional Arts. The lecture on Wednesday, April 11th, will encompass the various aspects of traditional black ink painting down through the ages and the new directions being taking in contemporary Sumi-e. . Among his many publications is his latest book, Sumi-e: The Art of Japanese Ink Painting - Tuttle Publishing 2010. He is founding director of the Japan House, University of Illinois.
- Click here for information on the 3-day Sumi-e workshop April 12-14 -
Photo credit: Shuzo Sato
Time: Lecture - Noon-1pm on Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Time: Workshop - 10am-4:30pm Thursday through Saturday, April 12-14, 2012
Location: Lecture - C-Level Lecture Room, North Building, Denver Art Museum
Location: Workshop - C-Level Art Studio Classroom
Lecture pricing: AAA members: free, Teachers & Students: $5, DAM members: $7, and all others: $10.
Workshop pricing: AAA members: $300; teachers, students, & DAM members: $320; and all others: $350.
RSVP required with prepayment for workshop. A non-refundable deposit of $50 will hold your reservation until payment in full.
Workshop reservation deadline: April 3, 2012.
Workshop size: maximum 15 students.
April 18, 2012
- Lecture -
South Asian and Buddhist Art
Susan Huntington
Save the Date!
Wednesday @ Noon: Noon-1pm
C-Level Lecture Room, North Building, Denver Art Museum
Reservations suggested; call 720-913-0040 or email blittle@denverartmuseum.org. Pay at the door. AAA members: free, Teachers & Students: $5, and all others: $10.
May 3-6, 2012
- Travel -
Boston Trip
Save the Dates! Curator Ron Otsuka will be leading a tour with the Asian Art Association to Boston. We will be visiting numerous museums including the Museum of Fine Arts, the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem Massachusetts, plus fantastic behind-the-scenes tours of private collections. More information to come soon.
Time: TBA
Logistics: TBA
May 30, 2012
- Lecture -
Indian Religious Textiles: The Pichwai and Kalamkari Narratives and Ceremonial Traditions
Saroj Merani
 India has a great tradition of storytelling on cloth with many narrative traditions that are rooted in religious belief and a deep wellspring of mythology, ritual, and ceremony. The illustrated talk focuses on the painted kalamkaris of Andhra Pradesh and the Srinathji pichwais of the temple town of Nathdwara in Rajasthan. While kalamkari art draws upon myths associated with the major deities in the Hindu pantheon as well as stories from the great Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the Nathdwara pichwais, on the other hand, are devoted exclusively to the narrative and worship of Krishna. An intrinsic part of religious ritual and ceremony,  and intended to inspire devotion and a reverence for the sacred principles of life, the religious textiles of India and the stories they narrate are part of its collective consciousness and belief system. The talk will also discuss the continuing relevance of these religious textiles in contemporary Indian life. Saroj Merani is currently senior faculty, Journalism, at Xavier Institute of Communications in Mumbai where she instructs graduate students in film studies, literature, and the arts. Previously, Ms. Merani was the Program and Cultural Advisor at the American Cultural Center in Mumbai. She continues to be fascinated by Indian mythology, folklore, and narratives.
Images: 1 & 2 Indian Religious Textiles, 3 Saroj Merani. Photo credit: Saroj Merani
Time: Wednesday @ Noon: Noon-1pm
Location: C-Level Lecture Room, North Building, Denver Art Museum
Reservations suggested; call 720-913-0040 or email blittle@denverartmuseum.org. Pay at the door. AAA members: free, Teachers & Students: $5, and all others: $10.
To see a list of past Asian Art Association events, please click here.
Special Asian Art Exhibitions at the DAM
Upcoming:
Xu Beihong: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting
 Opens: October 30th, 2011
October 30, 2011 - January 29, 2012
- press release link -
Threads of Heaven: Silken Legacy of China's Last Dynasty
 Opens: October 30th, 2011
October 30, 2011 - January 29, 2012
- press release link -
Member Preview: Xu Beihong: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting & Threads of Heaven: Silken Legacy of China’s Last Dynasty
Saturday, October 29, 10:00 am
Hamilton Building, Level 2
 At this member preview, get a rare look inside China’s artistic history through two special exhibitions which explore this mysterious and ceremonial country during two time periods—the latter years of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912), and the subsequent formation of the Republic of China during the early to middle 20th century.
• Docent stations in the galleries, 11 am–3 pm
• Curators Ronald Y. Otsuka, Dr. Joseph de Heer Curator of Asian Art, and Dr. Alice M. Zrebiec, consulting curator of Textile Art, in the galleries, 11 am–1 pm
• Book signing by the Hamilton Shop, 1–2 pm
No reservations required.
Free; DAM members only.
For questions or more information, call 720–913–0130.
Current:
Texture & Tradition: Japanese Woven Bamboo
Opens: July 31, 2011
Walter + Mona Lutz Gallery
Level 5, North Building
Blue and White: A Ceramic Journey
Opens: June 12, 2011
Level 5, North Building
Curator Ron Otsuka at the entrance to the Blue and White exhibit.
Engi by Tatsuo Miyajima
October 7, 2006
Atrium, Level 1, Hamilton Building
For reservations, please call 720-913-0040. Please send your reservation check to DAM/AAA, 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204.
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