Read about our five scholars below, then look for them on our discussion boards!

 
Joyce Chow
Joyce Chow is currently a graduate student in Chinese art history at the University of Washington, studying with Jerome Silbergeld. Prior to her current Blakemore internship in the Education Department of the Seattle Asian Art Museum, Ms. Chow completed a Blakemore internship in the Chinese Art Curatorial Department. For her master's thesis, Ms. Chow is currently engaged in a careful study of Palace Banquet, a painting dated to the Southern Tang period in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Next year, she will be enjoying a year of intensive Chinese language study in Taipei, Taiwan.
Stevan Harrell
Stevan Harrell is professor of anthropology at the University of Washington and curator of Asian ethnology at the Burke Museum. He was recently the co-curator of the exhibit Mountain Patterns, which opened at the Burke in 2000, and contributed to the exhibition’s catalogue. For more information, please visit his web site.
Mary Hirsch
Mary Hirsch is Curatorial Assistant of Chinese Art, hired on specifically to work on Treasures from a Lost Civilization. She has lived and studied in China. This year she spent the month of February in Sichuan as part of a team of SAM staff sent there to condition, pack, and bring the works of art back to the museum for installation.
Peng Wenbin
Peng Wenbin, doctoral candidate in the anthropology department at the University of Washington, is a native of Sichuan, China, and conducts research on ethnicity, regionalism, and intellectual history in southwest China.
Jay Xu
Jay Xu, curator of Treasures from a Lost Civilization, is the Foster Foundation Curator of Chinese Art, and has been with the Seattle Art Museum since 1996. Exhibitions he has curated at SAM include Wonders of Clay and Fire: Chinese Ceramics through the Ages (1997 to the present), from Hong Kong. Previously, Mr. Xu was a pre-doctoral fellow with curatorial duties at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asian Art Department (1994-96), From 1988-90 Mr. Xu worked at the Shanghai Museum, China's Office of Cultural Exchange, in a position equivalent to assistant curator. Mr. Xu obtained a B.A. in Chinese Literature from Shanghai University. He received an M.A. in Chinese Art History from Princeton University, Department of Art and Archaeology, and is a Ph.D. candidate there.