Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas

The Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas, founded in 2009, offers dynamic public programs by specialists who provide informed perspectives and explore all facets of Asia, from history and culture to agriculture, global health and politics. In keeping with the Seattle Art Museum’s mission SAM connects art to life, the Gardner Center seeks to offer a holistic look at Asia, including dialogue around challenging contemporary issues.

	Visit the SAM calendar for upcoming events at the Gardner Center.

Saturday University Lecture Series

Asia Crossings: Travel Accounts Through Asia’s History

Saturdays, February 16–April 13, 9:30–11 am
Seattle Asian Art Museum, Volunteer Park

Travel accounts within Asia are explored in this nine-week series, left by travelers male and female—from monks to military, and merchants to pilgrims—dating from the 7th century onward.

Full series tickets: $43 SAM members, $86 nonmembers

Ticket Info

Saturday University Lectures:

• February 16, 2013
  China and India are One: An Indian Soldier's Travelogue of Beijing in 1890–1901, Anand Yang
• February 23, 2013
  The Politics of Pilgrimage: Xuanzang and His Meetings with Indian Kings, Tansen Sen
• March 2, 2013
  How and why did Mount Emei in China become a “Buddhist Mountain?”
• March 9, 2013
  Ibn-Sina and the Flow of Medical Information Across Asia, Stewart Gordon
• March 16, 2013
  Ming China Goes Abroad: The Zheng He Voyages of the 15th Century, Geoffrey Wade
• March 23, 2013
  Morocco to Mecca, Malaya and More: The Fourteenth Century Travels of Ibn Battuta, Ross Dunn
• March 30, 2013
  Women on the Road: Pilgrims, Puppeteers, and Prostitutes from 11th to 14th Century Japan, Christina Laffin
• April 6, 2013
  Pathways to Bliss: Reinventing Buddhist Pilgrimage in Andhra Pradesh, Catherine Becker
• April 13, 2013
  Gentility on the Move: Travelogues and Fictions of Foreign Travel by Chinese Women, Circa 1900, Ellen Widmer

Other Gardner Center Events:

• April 11, 2013
  Second Thursday Japanese Films
  Ugetsu
• April 21, 2013
  Sacred Poetry and Music in Muslim Cultures
  Dr. Nargis Virani
• April 25, 2013
  Professor Emeritus Yoshiaki Shimizu
  Art and Nuclear Disaster in the Pacific: Response by Two Painters
• April 28, 2013
  Professor Emeritus Yoshiaki Shimizu
  Ito Jakuchu (1716–1800): A Peacetime Painter of Kyoto
• May 2, 2013
  Author Reading: William Dalrymple
  The Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839–42
• May 9, 2013
  Second Thursday Japanese Films
  Kwaidan: A Woman in the Snow and Hoichi the Earless
• May 10, 2013
  8th Aaina Festival
  Yoni Ki Baat
• May 11, 2013
  8th Aaina Festival
  Yoni Ki Baat
• May 12, 2013
  8th Aaina Festival
  Yoni Ki Baat
• June 13, 2013
  Second Thursday Japanese Films
  The Tale of Genji

Contact Us

206.442.8480
Gardnercenter@seattleartmuseum.org
Tuesday & Thursday: 12–5 pm

The Gardner Center is proud to partner with the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies, Elliott Bay Book Company, and a variety of organizations involved with Asia.