Seattle Art Museum Asia Talks: Conversations with Artists
In July, Laila Kazmi is hosting a series of conversations with artists for the Gardner Center for Asian Arts & Ideas at the Seattle Art Museum. While the pandemic has kept us from meeting in person, it has also caused organizations to innovate and create online events that viewers can attend from home from anywhere in the world. This brings an opportunity to converse with artists from across the country.
The first event was on July 2 with internationally recognized artist Shahzia Sikander, who joined us for the discussion from her home in New York City. Sikander's major work while earning a B.F.A. at the National College of Arts in Lahore, The Scroll (1990), launched what is now globally called the neo-miniature. She then earned an M.F.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design.
The second event in this Asia Talks series is a conversation with Lebanese and Syrian American artist Helen Zughaib on July 16. Zughaib is one of the most well known Arab American visual artists. Her work has been gifted to heads of states by President Obama and Secretary Hillary Clinton. Her series The Syrian Migration depicting the Syrian refugee crisis is inspired by Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series. Zughaib will join us for the conversation from Washington DC, where she is based.
Final talk in this series with immigrant artists is on July 30 with Chinese American artist Hung Liu. Initially trained in the Socialist Realist style, Liu studied as a graduate student at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing. She also painted while visiting the Buddhist caves at Dunhuang, before immigrating to attend art school at the University of California, San Diego. Liu is known for paintings based on historical Chinese photographs.
These are FREE online events.
