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Asian Art Association Programs Future Programs | Past Programs The Asian Art Association (AAA), a membership support group of the Denver Art Museum, is dedicated to promoting knowledge and understanding of Asian art and culture. It works closely with the Asian Art Department to present programs and activities that will enable the community to learn and enjoy, while keeping abreast of important developments in the fascinating world of Asian art. The AAA presents a Wednesday-at-Noon lecture series from September to May and evening lectures throughout the year. For more information
on the Asian Art Association, please click on Asian
Art Association.
ASIAN ART ASSOCIATION 2008-09 EDUCATION CALENDAR All events take place at the Denver Art Museum, North Building, unless otherwise indicated. ATTENTION! “Special Evening Receptions and Events”
include light hors d’ouvres and beverages, lecture following
reception. $18.00 AAA members. $25.00 others. These events feature
nationally renowned speakers from across the country. Reservations are required for “Special Evening Receptions and Events”, those evening programs including hors d’ouvres and beverages. For such events reservations are requested at 720-913-0040. Please send your reservation check to DAM/AAA, 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204. Winter - Short Series on Contemporary Artists - their art and its Asian roots Wednesday-at-Noon - Jan. 21 Noon-1pm Yumi Janairo Roth teaches sculpture at the University of Colorado. Her part-Philippine heritage recently took her to Manila for a period as artist in residence. During this lecture she will introduce the projects that she undertook whilst in the Philippines, as well the ongoing Asian influences in her artwork. Friday-at-Night - Feb. 13 (tbd) 6:30-7:30pm Halim Al-Karim was born in 1963 in Najaf, Iraq. He attended the Baghdad Academy of Fine Arts, where he earned a BFA in 1988. In 1991, he left Iraq for Jordan and then Amsterdam, where he attended the Gerrit Reitveld Academy, graduating in 1999. He moved to Denver earlier this year. Wednesday-at-Noon – Mar. 4 Noon-1pm Hung Liu is Professor of Studio Arts at Mills College in Oakland, CA. Born in Changchun she experienced first hand the vicissitudes of the Cultural Revolution, was trained and then taught at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, before moving to the US in 1984. Widely exhibited and collected, her work is mostly based on historical photographs of pre-Revolutionary China. Spring - Short Series on Indian Art Wednesday-at-Noon – Mar. 18 Noon-1pm William Matthews in a renowned watercolorist based in Denver. His subject matter is usually the American West, but he has combined this with something of an Asian aesthetic in recent visits to China and India, culminating in the case of the latter in show in Denver (2000) and New Delhi (2006). This lecture will combine images of his Indian paintings together with music on a variety of Indian instruments by Denver-based music instructor Virdiji. Virdiji was born in Dharamsala before moving to Denver in 1977. Friday-at-Night - (tbd) 6:30-7:30pm Indian folk arts Wednesday-at-Noon – (tbd) Noon-1pm Indian Architecture – Buddhist, Hindu, and Mughal AAA office: Heidi Quist, Executive Assistant Tel:
720-913-0040
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