Myriad Treasures: Celebrating the Reinstallation of the Soreng Gallery of Chinese Art 
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, 2020
Anne Rose Kitagawa, M.A.
Chief Curator of Collections & Asian Art, Director of Academic Programs
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, ​​University of Oregon             
​3 October, 2020          
​9:30 am - 11:00 am, PDT 
The Soreng Gallery of Chinese Art at the University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art recently underwent a long-awaited renovation. Come with First Saturday PDX as we explore "Myriad Treasures," the inaugural installation in the newly refurbished gallery, featuring 113 objects spanning four millennia of Chinese history from the museum’s legacy collection along with a few exciting recent acquisitions. JSMA Chief Curator Anne Rose Kitagawa will discuss the founding of the museum, the development of its historic Asian collection, and the recent Chinese gallery renovation, which commemorates a century of cross-cultural engagement at UO, supports the university’s curriculum, and provides rich opportunities for object-based learning and art and cultural appreciation at all levels.

​About the speaker:
Anne Rose Kitagawa is an art historian specializing in East Asian art. With degrees from Oberlin College and Princeton University, she worked at the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and Harvard Art Museums.   In 2010, she moved to Eugene and became the Chief Curator of Collections & Asian Art, and Director of Academic Programs at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon.  There she oversees large collections of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese art.  Her recent projects include an exhibition of Japanese American artist Roger Shimomura, a bilingual publication about the JSMA’s Korean collection, and catalogues on postwar Japanese prints and contemporary Japanese mezzotints.  Future projects include a Chinese propaganda catalogue, an exhibition of contemporary Chinese photography and mixed-media works by Chinese American artist Hung Liu, and a retrospective of Japanese American artist Masami Teraoka. 
Video of this presentation can be seen here
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Our program series is co-sponsored by Portland State University's Institute for Asian Studies and the Northwest China Council, and is free and open to the public.