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Untitled, 2026, cyanotype, © Patty Chang

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Patty Chang: surfacing

What does the ocean remember?

Patty Chang: surfacing brings to light hidden histories of Chinese fishing communities along the California coast, connecting stories of labor, loss, and legacy.

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Join us on Saturday, November 14 at 5:30 PM for “Tracing What Remains: Memory, Place, and Chinese American Histories”, a powerful screening and vital act of historical recovery.

Presented in conjunction with “Patty Chang’s surfacing,” “Tracing What Remains: Memory, Place, and Chinese American Histories” brings together films that examine the histories of Chinese communities across Northern California through landscape, memory, and acts of remembrance. Moving between documentary, historical narrative, and poetic reflection, these films trace the enduring presence of communities whose lives and labor were systematically erased from the historical record.

From the displaced Chinese fishing villages of the San Francisco Bay to the expulsion of Chinese residents from Eureka, these works reveal how places can hold memory even when official histories do not. Together, they ask how artists can recover forgotten stories, map absences, and imagine new ways of bearing witness to the past.

Following the screening, filmmakers Chisa Hughes (Many Moons) and Rene Yung (Chinese Whispers) will join in conversation with surfacing co-curator, Kelsey Chen to discuss filmmaking as a practice of historical recovery, the relationship between place and memory, and the ongoing work of preserving Chinese American histories.

🎬 The Lineup & Panelists:
• Rene Yung (@reneyungstudio), artist behind Chinese Whispers
• Chisa Hughes (@uncle_boonmee_), filmmaker of Many Moons
• Kelsey Chen (@silkpunkbaby), surfacing co-curator (moderator)

🗓️ Saturday, November 14, 2026
🕒 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PT
📍 Denning Family Resource Center, Stanford, CA (Anderson Collection)

🎟️ Free & open to the public

🔗 Spaces are limited. Reserve your seat at the link in our bio to help us bear witness to these forgotten stories.

Images:
- Still from “Many Moons,” 2022
- Portrait of filmmaker Chisa Hughes
- Film poster for “Many Moons,” 2022
- Portrait of filmmaker and artist Rene Yung
- Junk Grace Quan
- Graphic for film, “Chinese Whispers,” 2015

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Need some Halloween Costume inspiration? 🎃

👻 Swipe through these artworks for costume ideas inspired by the Cantor and Anderson galleries.

All the artworks shown are currently on display in the museum galleries. Visit Stanford's 2 museums and come up with your own unique costume today!

To plan your visit, click the link in bio.

🖼️ Currently on view at Cantor:
2) “Athena Giustiniani,” 19th century, 19th C., Europe, Italy, by (primary), Antonio Frilli, Italian, 1835–1892.
4) “Mummy Mask of a Woman,” 7th-6th C. BCE, Africa, Egypt
5) “Pair of Birds,” 17th-20th C., Asia, China
6) “Ewer for Ritual Water (Kundika).” 11th-12th C., Asia, Korea.
7) “Appolonia Adriaens Bogaert,” 1641, 17th C., Pieter Nason.

🖼️ Currently on view at Anderson:
3) “Plumb Bob,” 1982, Robert Hudson.
8) “Fall Euphony,” 1959, Hans Hofmann.

🖼️ Other images:
1) Image courtesy of the Anderson Collection.
9) “Netsuke of Skeleton,” Naitô Toyomasa, 18th C.

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Artist Talk with CFGNY: A Practice in Collaboratio $Artist Talk with CFGNY: A Practice in Collaboration Please join us, Nov 3, 5:30 pm, for a roundtable discussion with CFGNY (Concept Foreign Garments New York) (@cfgny2)— an artist collective whose multidisciplinary practice combines image making, installation, performance, and garment making — moderated by artist Vincent Chong ('26)(@crystalmonkeycalligraphy). The collective uses materials such as porcelain, stuffed animals, photography, drawing, and corrugated cardboard to investigate notions of mass production and fetishistic desire. At the heart of these investigations, Asian identity fractures and fragments into what the collective refers to as “vaguely Asian.” 🗓Tuesday, November 3, 5:30 to 7pm 📍Anderson Collection, The Denning Family Resource Center 314 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305 For more information, click the link in bio. 📸 1-4: Photo by David Brandon Geeting. Courtesy of the artists and Amant, New York. 📸Ten Izu 📸Daniel Chew 📸Tin Nguyen 📸 Image courtesy of Vincent Chong. #AndersonCollection #StanfordArts$

Join Kelsey Chen(@silkpunkbaby), Exhibition Co-Cur

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