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Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas

Gadner Center for Asian Art and Ideas

Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas launched at the Seattle Asian Art Museum


About the Gardner Center
The Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas, founded by Mimi Gardner Gates, SAM’s director emerita, advances the region’s engagement with Asia through dynamic public programs that provide informed perspectives on Asia, past and present. In keeping with the Seattle Art Museum’s vision “SAM connects art to life,” the new Gardner Center seeks to offer a holistic look at Asia, including dialogue around challenging social issues and international relations.

The Gardner Center was launched in October 2009 with the inaugural lecture series "Saturday University: Asia in Focus."

Through the Gardner Center's programs, specialists on Asia explore all facets of Asia, both past and present from art and culture, literature, music and film to agriculture, health, population control and politics. The Gardner Center is also a convening place for Seattle’s many Asia-affiliated communities, organizations and groups, forging strategic partnerships with organizations such as the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) and the U.S.–China Relations Council as well as universities and museums outside of the Northwest that are also addressing important Asian topics and issues. As the Gardner Center further develops its partnerships with the Asia Society in New York, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and a variety of non-governmental organizations working in Asia, the range of programs will involve diplomats, business people, artists, humanitarian workers, and experts on global development and health.


Upcoming Gardner Center Programs


Meet the Modernists of India and China

Part 1. Three Artists, Three Traditions of Modernism in India

Sonal Khullar, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Washington, speaks on the synthesis between East and West in the modern and contemporary work of three distinctive artists.


Part 2. Four Individualists: Four Modernities in Chinese Painting

Ben Wang of the China Institute, New York City, discusses the work of four scholar-painters who excelled at the Three Perfections—painting, poetry and calligraphy.

Ticket Info

Full series of eight summer lectures (includes July 13):

SAM members $28, nonmembers $56.

Partial series of four lectures (your choice which four):

SAM members $16, nonmembers $32.

Tickets for an individual lecture can be purchased at the door, day of show, at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. SAM members $5, nonmembers $10.

Contact Us

206.442.8480
Gardnercenter@seattleartmuseum.org

 
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