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Have you read, “Portrait of a Thief”, the New

Have you read, “Portrait of a Thief”, the New York Times bestseller by Stanford Med student and museum Student Guide Grace D. Li? Even if you haven’t, you’ll want to after this event on Thursday at the museum! Register on our website.

Equal parts beautiful, thoughtful, and thrilling, “Portrait of a Thief” is a cultural heist and an examination of Chinese American identity, as well as a necessary critique of the lingering effects of colonialism. This New York times bestselling debut novel, by Stanford Medicine student and author, Grace D. Li, is in development at Netflix.

The 1st Generation Mentorship Program (1st Gen), The Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA), Anderson Collection at Stanford University, and Medicine & the Muse are proud to offer a Portrait of a Thief Book Reading event with author Grace D. Li.

Please join us for a brief reading and moderated Q&A with the author, followed by a reception and book signing opportunity. (Please bring your copy! Books will also be available for purchase.)

Museum Nights at the @anderson.collection.stanford

Museum Nights at the @anderson.collection.stanford and @cantorarts this Thursday from 6-8pm! This STUDENT ONLY event features Spoken Word performances, an open mic, 🎤It’s Its, donuts 🍩, coffee ☕️ and boba 🧋!
Register at link in bio.

Jean Shin is known for her sprawling and often pub

Jean Shin is known for her sprawling and often public sculptures, transforming accumulations of discarded objects into powerful monuments that interrogate our complex relationship between material consumption, collective identity, and community engagement. Her work is included in the Anderson Collection’s current exhibition, Convergence Zone. Often working cooperatively within a community, Shin amasses vast collections of everyday objects including the altered Mountain Dew bottles that make up Invasives, her sculpture on view on the facade of the Anderson Collection. Shin is also the 2022-23 Denning Visiting Artist at Stanford.

The artist will be in conversation with Marci Kwon, Assistant Professor of Art History at Stanford University and co-director of the Cantor Arts Center's Asian American Art Initiative. She is the author of Enchantments: Joseph Cornell and American Modernism (Princeton, 2021), co-editor of the online Martin Wong Catalogue Raisonné.

Tickets in bio.

Chocolate Heads “Weather Stimulator” for “Co

Chocolate Heads “Weather Stimulator” for “Convergence Zone” is an immersive dance event at the Anderson Collection excerpted from this season’s “Weather Simulator”* that will debut in May in the Elam Theater. Through this poetic simulator we explore the relationship between weather and human social life. In an unpredictable world of climate catastrophes how can we inspire creative agency through our collective imagination?

“Weather Simulator” will be presented in full, as one of four works offered by TAPS dance faculty choreographers
Spring Rise Up- A Dance Sensorium
TAPS Mainstage Production
May 25, 26, 27, 2023 @ 8PM
Elam Theater in Roble Gym- Open to the Public
Department of Theater and Performance Studies
Artistic Director and Choreographer Aleta Hayes

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It’s National Pet Day and we’re in the Stanfor

It’s National Pet Day and we’re in the Stanford Report!

Check out what Robin Wander from University Communications wrote up about our Roy De Forest + works that can be found at Cantor Arts.

🔗 in stories for the full report!

“In this painting by Roy De Forest, the acclaimed Bay Area artist, educator, and pioneering figure in the Funk and Nut art movements, Hans Bricker takes the viewer on a journey with his trusty companion through a fantastical landscape. Currently on view at the Anderson Collection.
Image credit: Roy De Forest (American, 1930-2007), Hans Bricker In The Tropics, 1974. Polymer on canvas. Anderson Collection, gift of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, and Mary Patricia Anderson Pence, 2014.1.045.”

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You can now watch Anderson Collection artist Squea

You can now watch Anderson Collection artist Squeak Carnwath and recent Stanford MFA graduate Gregory Rick in conversation of what art making has taught them.

Follow the link in our stories to YouTube to catch the full program that originally took place here at Stanford, at Oshman Hall, on February 28, 2023.

And congratulations to Gregory on the opening of his solo exhibition, “Running Wild,” which opened yesterday at Johansson's Projects in Oakland, CA.

Exhibition dates: April 7 – May 27, 2023

Gregory Rick // 1982 (Free Mumia)- Acrylic, pigmented ink, and watercolor on absorbent ground ; 36” x 25”

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Join us for a student event this Saturday in the m

Join us for a student event this Saturday in the museum galleries!

Saturday April, 8 @ 3:30pm

The roots of abstraction are found in many Indigenous cultures that can afford us a different access point to viewing work in the Anderson Collection. During the mid-century, different modes of abstraction were being created on opposite coasts of the country. This work became formalized knowledge in American art history, often being taught and understood through the white gaze. Liz Maelane and Christian Gonzalez-Ho, two graduate students from the Department of Art & Art History explore what is “abstract art” by incorporating a larger historical context and expanding the possibilities of engaging it.

Conversation will be moderated by current MFA student Krystal Ramirez.

Guests please meet in the museum lobby. More information on our website, link in bio ☝🏾

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Jean Shin install day! + cute puppy that passed

Jean Shin install day!

+ cute puppy that passed by the museum today during install because, obviously.

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