Asian Arts Council Calendar - July 2024 - June 2025 - FY25

Lectures and Study Group meet on Zoom! (most of the time)

1. Lectures, and More

2. Zoom lectures have returned to the pre-pandemic rate! (AAC members and Museum docents are sent links and enter for free). Please contribute to allow AAC to continue to host these outstanding speakers. Encourage friends to join in!
   To register, find the date on the calendar of The San Diego Museum of Art. Click here! Once registered, an invitation email will be sent.

3. Thursday, Sep 25 - 1:00 p.m.

   A Japanese Art Journey: A Curator's Memoir of Polka Dot Pumpkins, Paper Dolls and Woodblock Prints  
   - Details

   Meher McArthur was born in India to a Scottish father and Persian mother and grew in Scotland, Canada, and England feeling very out of place. Hoping to go into international business, she studied Japanese at college and lived in Japan for two years but fell in love with Japanese art and took a new direction. She became a Japanese art historian and has been passionately curating Japanese art exhibitions in museums and galleries and for national tour for over 25 years. This lecture is a sneak preview of her new memoir (October 2025) and will highlight some of the most significant art works in her life and career and show how Japanese art helped her find her place in the world. Don't miss her book signing at the Mingei International Museum in November!

   Meher McArthur, Asian art historian, Asian art curator, Author and Educator  

4. Thursday, Oct 30 - 1:00 p.m.

   Andreas Marks, Ph.D., the Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts