Happy New Year Celebration Banquet & Lecture

We warmly welcome you to attend this event!

When: Tuesday, January 14, 2025, 12:30 p.m.

Where: Hawaii Dim Sum & Seafood restaurant, 2nd Fl, 111 N. King St.

Honolulu, Chinatown

Parking: Marin Tower municipal parking, 918 Smith Street, Honolulu, Chinatown (link to map)

Signup: (Link to Sign Up Spreadsheet Here)

Deadline: January 7, 2025

Cost: $35 per person. Mail a check to SAAH, PO Box 240721, Honolulu 96824

Credit card/pay-at-the-door is accepted.

Menu: Minced beef with Chinese parsley soup, prawns in salted egg yolk sauce, cage- free chicken w/house sauce, roast duck, chow mien w/mixed veggies, wood-ear & mountain yam with Chinese peas, egg custard dessert. (BYOB free of charge)

Featured Speaker: Allison Wong

Topic: Gwangju, Busan Biennials and Contemporary Art in S. Korea.

Gwangju Biennial, founded in 1995 in memory of the victims of the 1980 democracy movement, featured 660 artists from 58 countries in its founding year. Over the last 29 years, Korean artists have emerged on the international stage and the biennial has been a driving force linking art around the globe. Busan, while forging its cultural identity as a design center, launched its contemporary art biennial in 1998. The two cities’ biennial iterations coincided in 2024.

In this context, the Society of Asian Art of Hawai’i (SAAH) invited Allison Wong who recently attended Frieze Seoul and the Biennials in Gwangju and Busan to give a talk. She will present an overview of each biennial and highlight some of the works that resonated with her, as well as other significant exhibitions she visited at Gallery Hyundai, Kukje Gallery, Leeum Samsung Museum, and studio visits with Seung-Taek Lee.

Allison currently runs her own art advisory business. As an art advisor, she works closely with collectors, corporations and institutions to help them navigate the complex art market. In addition, she is committed to promoting local artists, using her expertise in identifying emerging talents. Previously she was Director of Partnerships for the Hawaii Contemporary, Deputy Director of Administration and Operations at HoMA, Director and Curator of The Contemporary Museum. She holds a B.A. degree in art history from Mills College in Oakland, California.

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SAAH 2024-2025 Programs

1. October program on the Meiji woodblock prints is postponed

2. An Evening with Dr. Shawn Eichman:

Dr. Eichman will lead us on a tour of the Maurice J. Sullivan Family Gallery of Chinese Art, focusing on the museum's exceptional collection of Ming dynasty paintings (1368-1644). This is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about this significant period in Chinese art history.

Program Details:

• Date: Friday, November 8, 2024

• Time: 5:30 PM - Dinner at HoMA Café; 7:00 PM - Gallery tour

• Venue: Honolulu Museum of Art Café and Maurice J. Sullivan Gallery

• Parking: Museum parking lot behind HoMA Art School former Linekona Art School

• To sign up with your order, click here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T-SL_N83lCT3cdXDe4U44qSLsoMx3ArSy9R4_2k-m6k/edit?usp=sharing

• Menu: https://honolulumuseum.org/cms_files/File/HoMA-Cafe-%E2%80%93-Night-Bar-Menu.pdf

Limited Capacity: Please note that due to the gallery's limited capacity (max 20 people), Dr. Eichman is willing to repeat the tour later if there is enough interest.

3. Mark your calendar and invite friends -- Tuesday, Jan 14th, 2025. A joint presentation on art biennials, museums and galleries in South Korea by Allison Wong and Diane Chen.

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The 1st Meeting of the 2024-2025 Season

Date & Time: Tuesday, September 10, 7:00 p.m. The door opens at 6:30 p.m.

Venue: EWC Gallery, UH Manoa campus; paid parking available.

Address: 1601 East-West Rd, Honolulu, HI 96848

The Program:

- President James Langworthy will welcome the membership and guests.

- Membership Chair John Kim will introduce new officers and members.

- Li Lundin will introduce the new Program Assistant and Web Manager, Brian Linares.

- Vice President/Scholarship Chair Cyndy Ning will present scholarship awards to recipients.

There will be a gallery walk-through with Curator Annie Reynolds on the current exhibition:

Ho‘okahe Wai, Ho‘oulu ‘Āina*: Kalo and Community. (*let the water flow, let the land flourish)

Since the 1980s, Kalo/taro farming has been a cornerstone of Hawaiian culture at Ka Papa Lo‘i ‘O Kānewai, adjacent to the Center for Hawaiian Studies at UH Mānoa. This collective effort is dedicated to nurturing and safeguarding the profound legacy of a traditional Hawaiian land management system within an Ahupua'a. The founding group of students, under the guidance of Harry Kūnihi Mitchell, a respected kūpuna of Ke‘anae, is dedicated to propagating kalo practices and fostering a sense of community through the lens of Hawaiian knowledge and language. This event is a celebration of this rich heritage and the cultural significance of Kalo in the global context.

Kalo/taro, the most important plant in Hawaiian culture, is not just a staple food source. It is the center of spiritualism, mythology, and social structure. Steaming kalo and mashing it into poi or eating the boiled leaves, called luʻau, like spinach, is not just a culinary tradition but a sacred ritual. This reverence for Kalo reflects its deep-rooted cultural and spiritual significance in Hawaiian society, connecting us all to our rich heritage. This event is a celebration of this sacred connection to Kalo.

Kalo is not just a staple food in Hawaiian culture but also significant in many parts of the world. It is a typical staple food in countries like China, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, India, Egypt, West Africa, Portugal, Central, and South America. Kalo's global reach showcases its versatility and importance in different cultures, making it a universal crop.

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 SAAH 50th Annual Meeting 

 Date:     Tuesday, May 14, 2024 
Venue:    Jade Dynasty Seafood Restaurant, Ala Moana Shopping Center
  4th Fl. #1450 Ala Moana Blvd. Tel: (808) 947-8818.
Time:      6:00 pm          Registration
               6:30 pm          Dinner
7:15 pm          Business
8:00 pm          Reports by scholarship awardees, Jane Traynor and Mariah Massengill, and Olivia Ambo                                      
Menu:    1. Salt & Pepper Pork Chop; 2. Roast Pipa Duck; 3. Stir-fried Scallop & Broccoli; 4. Dynasty Chicken; 5. Eggplant & Tofu; 6. Stir-fried String Beans; 7. Mochi Balls in Sweet Ginger Soup; 8. Steamed White Rice.

Cost:      $60 per person, $15 tax deductible donation to SAAH scholarships.

BYOB.   Corkage fee ($25 per table) included.

Deadline:  Tuesday, May 14. Please sign up as soon as you can. Invite friends and family to help celebrate SAAH’s 50th anniversary. Minimum 40. Maximum 60.  

MAKE SURE TO SIGN UP HERE: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zxn1g2T75vD2DK6vKGIRI8Pln65Qz284WivvFyQ7I/edit#gid=0

We will not be accepting credit card payments. Send check or money order to: SAAH, P.O. Box 240721, Honolulu, HI 96824.

Mahalo for your support!

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The 7th Meeting of the 2023-2024 Season 

(Revised)

Date & Time: Sunday, April 7

12:30 pm – Tour of EWC Gallery guided by SAAH scholarship recipient Jane Traynor

14:00 pm – Kabuki Demonstration by Japanese Masters at Imin Conference Center

The program: 

Come spend an afternoon immersing yourself in the world of kabuki, a traditional form of Japanese theatre! Feel free to attend all or parts of the program. For reservation of spaces, please sign up here. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1syXvmLw7gqzzuXzyoahBzCicwoM4H12En7krfKTEi7g/edit#gid=0 

Meet at 12:30 pm at the East West Center Gallery to enjoy the exhibition "Kabuki in Hawai‘i: Connections through Time and Space." The exhibit seeks to showcase the rich history of kabuki in Hawai'i, particularly the century-long history of kabuki in English - a tradition unmatched elsewhere in the world. Our scholarship awardee and exhibit research assistant, Jane Traynor, will guide us through the EWC Gallery, highlighting notable points in the timeline, material objects, and intergenerational connections. After the tour, we will make our way to the IMIN Conference Center where we will experience kabuki up close with a demonstration from guest kabuki artists and a few student members of the cast from the upcoming kabuki production. The demonstration will begin at 2pm* and will include a dance number performed by Ichikawa Monnosuke VIII and Ichikawa Komazo XI, a tachimawari ("fight scene") performance by Ichikawa Takisho and Ichikawa Utaki, a demonstration of the shichi-go-cho ("7-5 syllable vocal rhythm") in both Japanese and English, as well as a costuming and makeup demonstration.

If you enjoy the tour and demonstration, you can purchase tickets for the upcoming kabuki production, The Maiden Benten and the Bandits of the White Waves, which will be performed in English, April 19th, 20th (Sat), 26th, and 27th (Sat) at 7:30pm and April 28th at 2:00pm, with pre-show chats starting at 6:45pm on the Saturday shows. Tickets may be purchased online or via the Kennedy Theatre Box Office (in person from 11am - 2pm the weeks of the performances). Buying tickets online in advance of the show is highly encouraged as the show is expected to be popular. For more details regarding dates and ticket prices please check out the website (https://manoa.hawaii.edu/liveonstage/benten/) or call the Box Office (808-956-7655). 

Please thank Jane Traynor for curating and writing up this month’s program! 

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Date & Time: Mon, Feb 12, 2024, 6:30 p.m. Registration at 6 p.m.

Venue:  Jade Dynasty Seafood Restaurant. 1450 Ala Moana Blvd. Fl 4. (808) 947-8818.

Cost:  $60 per person (corkage fee included). Scholarship students gratis courtesy of SAAH. Signup Deadline: Thurs. Feb 8.  BYOB. 

Menu: 1. Deep fried oyster with roasted garlic wrapped in lettuce; 2. Winter melon soup; 

3. Steamed fish filet with ham, mushroom & bok choy; 4. Peking duck in two ways - with bun and in lettuce wrap; 5. Honey walnut shrimp; 6. Eggplant with tofu; 7. Steam white rice; 8. Mochi balls with sweet ginger soup. 

The Program: The Explosive Art of Cai Guo Qiang

To celebrate the auspicious year of the Dragon, a 24-minute film on artist Cai Guo Qiang will be streamed while dessert is being served. 

Gun powder is Cai Guo Qiang's world recognized signature work, as the artist behind the fireworks displays of the Beijing Olympics, winner of the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale, Cai Guo-Qiang is literally a rock-star in the world of art. From his "Extend the Great Wall” in Gobi Desert explosions to his colossal installations, his unique art once seen is never forgotten.

​Based in New York, Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957, Quanzhou, China) was trained in stage design at the Shanghai Theatre Academy from 1981 until 1985. His work has since spanned multiple artistic mediums including drawing, painting, installation, video, and performance art. Cai began to experiment with gunpowder painting in his hometown Quanzhou and continued exploring the practice while living in Japan from the end of 1986 to 1995. He continued to evolve the scale and form of these gunpowder works, which eventually led him to develop his signature outdoor explosion events. Drawing upon Eastern philosophy and contemporary social issues as a conceptual basis, his site-specific artworks often respond to the local culture and history and establish a dialogue between viewers and the larger universe around them. 

A Heads-up on April 7th program by Jane Traynor, Dept of Theater and Dance Ph.D. candidate and SAAH Scholarship Awardee, 2021-2022 & 2023-2024

To make this evening a joyous soiree, wear your ethnic attire!

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The 3rd Meeting of the 2023-2024 Season

Date & Time: Friday, November 10, 2023
Venue: Honolulu Museum of Art
Parking: Museum parking lot behind Linekona Art School
5:30 pm – Dinner at HoMA Café
7:00 pm – Tour of Sullivan Gallery

Menu: https://honolulumuseum.org/app/uploads/2023/01/HoMA-Cafe-%E2%80%93-Night-Bar-Menu.pdf  Please decide on your choice beforehand if possible.Pay individually at the Café. *You may sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1syXvmLw7gqzzuXzyoahBzCicwoM4H12En7krfKTEi7g/edit?usp=sharing

Sign up Deadline: Wed. Nov 8.

*Note: Due to the Gallery’s limited capacity of max 20 people, Shawn is willing to repeat the tour later, if 15 or so members are interested.

The Program: An Evening with Dr. Shawn Eichman, HoMA Curator of Asian Art

It is a pleasure and honor to have Dr. Shawn Eichman back as our speaker. After dinner, he will give us a tour of the paintings by the Eight Eccentrics at the Sullivan Gallery. The Eight Eccentrics were a group of unconventional artists during the mid Qing period, who worked in the prosperous coastal city of Yangzhou in Jiangsu province, famous for its gardens, canals, trade, literati art & crafts.

Prior to his current position, Shawn worked at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Nelson-Atkins Museum and The Art Institute of Chicago. He has a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University, master's degrees from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Waseda University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He participated in the seminal exhibition Taoism and the Arts of China organized by The Art Institute of Chicago and was co-author of the exhibition catalogue. Other projects include Lacquer and Clay: Okinawan Art and an exhibition on the contemporary Chinese landscape painter Li Huayi in 2019.

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The 2nd Meeting of the 2023-2024 Season

Date & Time: Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Dinner: 6:00 pm. Program: 7:00 pm.

Venue: upstairs private room of Gyotaku Japanese Restaurant on S. King Street. Employees will help you walk the stairs if needed. We apologize for the inconvenience. Address: 1824 S. King Street. https://www.gyotakuhawaii.com/locations-south-king-street

Parking: ample spaces on the premises.

Menu: 3 bento entrees: Teriyaki Chicken, Nishime (braised vegetables & chicken), Misoyaki Salmon, each comes with rice (white or brown), miso soup, salad, veggies, soft drink (regular iced tea, coke, diet coke, sprite, fruit punch or root beer), and ice cream. Cost: $26 (incl. tax & tips). *Cost of wine: $6.75 to $8.25 per glass. Pay directly to the restaurant.

You may pay with a credit card to SAAH Treasurer at the restaurant, or mail a check to: P.O. Box 240721, Honolulu, 96824. Deadline: Oct 19. (Checks preferred.)

Sign up and place your order at This Page. Max 40.

If you wish to participate from home, please Click on Zoom link.

The Program: Gazing at Sanxingdui--Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan, China is an exhibition to open in late September 2023 at the Hong Kong Palace Museum. Our guest speaker, Dr. Tianlong Jiao, Head Curator of HKPM, will speak via Zoom about the discovery of this astounding culture and its significance in the art history of China as well as the world.

Dr. Tianlong Jiao is no stranger to SAAH or Hawaii. He was the Chairman of the Department of Anthropology at the Bishop Museum from 2003 to 2013 and curated the pathbreaking exhibition, Lost Maritime Cultures: China and the Pacific, in 2007. Specializing in Chinese archaeology and art history, Dr. Jiao has over twenty years of curatorial experience. He served as the Josef de Heer Curator of Asian Art at the Denver Art Museum from 2015 to 2021, the Head and Curator of Chinese Art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco from 2014 to 2015, Chief Curator of Hong Kong Maritime Museum from 2013 to 2014. He has conducted archaeological projects in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Hawai’i and Honduras and has authored/co-authored seven books and more than ninety research papers both in Chinese and in English. His book, The Neolithic of Southeast China, (Cambria Press 2007) was the winner of the 2007 Philip and Eugenia Cho Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Asian Studies.

Dr. Jiao received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Peking University and his PhD from Harvard University.

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The 1st Meeting of the 2023-2024 Season

Date & Time: Wednesday, September 6 at 7:00 pm (Door opens at 6:30 pm.)

Venue: EWC Gallery, UH Manoa campus, paid parking available.

The Program: Hawai’i Watercolor Society’s Juried Show

As usual, we kick off the fall season at the East-West Center Gallery, thanks to the generosity of our hosts – Director Eric Chang, Curator Annie Reynolds and staff members. Before we take a guided tour, President, Dr. James Langworthy will greet members and address a few housekeeping items, followed by Scholarship Chair Dr. Cyndy Ning’s announcement and presentation of awards to five recipients. Lastly, a quick heads up on programs by Li Lundin.

*Please renew your membership by card or check at the meeting if you haven’t yet. Recently enrolled new members do not need to renew until September 2024. If your email or address has changed, please fill out the printable membership form on the SAAH website and submit it.

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Additional event: Artist/Architect Bonhui Uy’s Studio Visit

Where: 60 N. Beretania St, Apt 3701,  (Across from Chinese Cultural Plaza.) Max 30.

Parking: Chinese Cultural Plaza garage.

Meet: 10am, in front of the bldg, president and vice president will guide you upstairs.

Visit length: no more than 2 hours.

Sign up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zxn1g2T75v_D2DK6vKGI_RI8Pln65Qz284WivvFyQ7I/edit?usp=sharing.

About the artist: Born in the Philippines, Bonhui earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Architectural Engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan and obtained his graduate degree from Pratt Institute, New York. From 1978-87, he did architectural drawings for Philip Johnson, I.M. Pei, David Childs, Edward Larrabee Barns, Richard Meier (in the late 1960’s) and Samuel Brody. After moving to Hawai’i, while continuing his architect’s career, he began to explore other media such as painting, collage, printmaking, digital drawing and sculpture. He often uses recycled materials to create whimsical sculptures and turn his home into a world of wonders. His art is eclectic, spontaneous, and masterful. Now in his 80s, Bonhui is still keeping his mind and hands busy with no sign of slowing down. He has graciously opened his home studio to local art groups. SAAH is among the fortunate ones. His publications include three books of Architectural Drawings & Leisure Sketches (1978, 1980, 1990), Artworks 1981-1993 (1993), and PEEK-A-BOO! SAYS WHO? (2016, co-authored with Bernard Uy) His work has been exhibited at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, UH School of Architecture Gallery, Taipei Xue Xue Foundation White Gallery, Manila CKSC & Davao CHHS, Philippines, Honolulu Printmakers and most recently Downtown Art Center, Honolulu.
After the visit, members may choose to have lunch at one of the restaurants inside the Chinese Cultural Plaza together or separately.

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SAAH 2023-2024 Programs

1. Wed. Sept 6, EWC Gallery: honoring the scholarship recipients, followed by Curator Dr. Annie Reynolds’ introduction of the new exhibition - Hawai’i Watercolor Society’s Show

   
   

2. Additional program: Sun. Sept 17, artist Bonhui Uy’s studio visit in Chinatown

   
   

3. Tues. Oct. 24 program at Gyotaku Japanese restaurant on S. King St, private room on the 2nd fl. Gazing at Sanxingdui--Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan, China by Dr. Tianlong Jiao, Head Curator of Hong Kong Palace Museum.

   
   

4. Fri. Nov. 3, Fri, meet at HoMA Café, dinner and tour of paintings by the Eight Eccentrics at the Sullivan Art Gallery with Asian Art Curator Dr. Shawn Eichman.

   
   

5. Jan. 4th or 5th, 2024, tour of the largest contemporary Hawaii art collection in a Waikiki hotel and dinner or pupu at the hotel.

   
   

6. Mon. Feb. 12, Chinese Lunar New Year Banquet at Jade Dynasty.

   
   

7. March program (TBA).

   
   

8. Apr 7, celebrating Dept of Theater and Dance 60th anniversary, a public lecture, This is Kabuki, Sun. Apr. 7 at Burns Hall in Imin Center, along with many activities from February to April, 2024.

   
   

9. Mon. May 13, Annual Meeting.

Prepared by Li Lundin, program chair

P.S. All programs are subject to change. I will do my best to notify you as soon as I can.

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2023 Annual Meeting / Banquet
Date:  Monday, May 15, 2023 

Venue: Jade Dynasty Seafood Restaurant, Ala Moana Shopping Center
              4th Fl. #1450 Ala Moana Blvd. Tel: (808) 947-8818.       

Time: 6:00 pm Registration
          6:30 pm Dinner

Menu: 1. Pomelo chicken salad with roasted pine nuts. 2. Honey walnut shrimp.   3. Chrysanthemum smoked chicken. 4. Sizzling tofu and eggplant. 5. E-mien with assorted mushrooms. 6. Steamed island fresh whole fish Uhu. 7. Osmanthus flavored Goji berry gelatin.

Cost:    $60 per person, $20 tax deductible donation to SAAH scholarships; BYOB. $20 corkage fee per table included.

Deadline:      Check to be received by Wed, May 10 (Please sign up as early as you can.

                          Invite friends or family. The meeting room sits comfortably with 4 tables.   

Payment:    Please mail your check to:

                         SAAH, P.O. Box 240721, Honolulu, HI 96824.  Mahalo!

Agenda

6:00 pm Registration
6:30 Dinner
7:15 Business
-Approval of minutes of 2022 annual meeting           
                 -Reports by President, Vice President, Treasure
                -Reports by chairs: Scholarship; Membership; Program
-Election of officers and directors (by show of hands) (Candidates to be announced later.)
-Election results

8:00 -Presentation by 2022-23 Scholarship awardee Mariah Massengill         
               -Presentation by 2022-23 Scholarship awardee Jordan Peterson

8:30 New Business. Meeting adjourned.

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The 6th Meeting of the 2022-2023 Season 

Date & Time: Monday, April 3, 5:30 p.m. 

Venue: Chopsticks & Rice, Hawaii Kai Town Center, kitty-corner of City Mill - https://chopstick-and-rice.business.site/ 

Please study the menu and be ready to order when you arrive. Pay individually. Free seating at any of the reserved tables. Program starts after orders are taken. BYOB, no corkage fee. 

Parking: Free, at Hawaii Kai Town Center parking lot in front of the restaurant

The Program: The Belitung Shipwreck as presented in exhibition Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia 

In 1998, fishermen looking for sea cucumbers accidentally stumbled on a shipwreck in Indonesian waters 3 km off the island of Belitung. Around 60,000 pieces of cargo (55,000 ceramics) produced in various parts of China, including gold and silver objects and bronze mirrors were salvaged from the shipwreck, the earliest vessel of Arab origin ever found in Southeast Asia dated 826 A.D. Global trade is an old concept and practice, with a well-developed commercial network going back a thousand years.  

Among the astonishing findings was the three intact porcelain dishes painted in cobalt blue pigment on white in Iranian Abbasid style, confirming that blue and white had already existed in the 9th Century. The Singapore Government acquired the entire Tang shipwreck treasures in 2005, against strong competition from museums in China and the Middle East. In 2017, the New York Asia Society, City University of New York, the Asian Civilizations Museum in Singapore co-organized an exhibition to showcase representative pieces and to reveal the significance of the Belitung Shipwreck. 

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5th Meeting of the 2022-2023 Season

Date & Time: Monday, March 6, 7:00 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.)

Venue: Art 101Auditorium, UH Art Department, next to the main auditorium.

Parking: $1 per hour payable at the parking stations near the Art Building on Correa St. Only credit cards are accepted.

Speaker: Janani Lakshmanan, Ph.D. candidate in the Mathematics program at UH, Manoa; student instructor with Sampradaya Dance of India and an active member in collegiate Indian classical art groups

The Program: A Mirror of Emotion: Bharatanatyam as Theatre, Worship, and Reflection

We are so fortunate to have this very special opportunity to pigeonhole a slice of Indian culture through classical Indian dance! Janani Lakshmanan began studying the oldest, most widely performed Bharatanatyam at the age of five and has been considered a senior performer since 2014. She was recognized by the Government of India’s cultural arts bureau, Doordarshan, with a Professional Artist’s Grading in March 2019. As a doctoral student of Mathematics, she is researching integrating classical dance and pure mathematics.

What is Bharatanatyam? The components of the name – Bhava-Raga-Tala-Natyam – refer to emotions, musicality, rhythm, and performance. These combine to create a captivating storytelling artform with emphasis on agility, grace, and expression.

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2023 Chinese New Year Banquet & Special Program

Gong Hey Fat Choy!  恭喜發财！ 

Date & Time: Wed, Feb 1, 2023, 6:30 p.m. Registration at 6 p.m.

Venue:  Jade Dynasty Seafood Restaurant. 1450 Ala Moana Blvd. Fl 4. (808) 947-8818.

To get there:  Located in the Ala Moana Shopping Center on the 4th Floor, the Ho’oikipa Terrace. Park on top level mauka lot. Take the central stairs to the left of Pearl Night Cub. 

Cost:  $60 per person (corkage fee included. $20 tax deductible). Current scholarship students free of charge.
Deadline: January 25, 2023. *Free seating at any SAAH reserved tables. BYOB.

Menu: 1. Shredded whole chicken & pomelo salad; 2. Braised mushroom & fungus topped with steamed winter melon dome; 3. Stir fried beef with snow pea greens; 4. Peking duck with pancakes; 5. Steamed fish filet with mushrooms, ham & vegetables; 6. Fried noodles with assorted veggies; 7. Honey Walnut Shrimp; 8. Dessert: Silken tofu with sweet ginger syrup.

Please fill out the form below and mail it with check payable to: SAAH, P.O. Box 240721, Honolulu, HI 96824

The Program:

“Heavy is the head that wears the crown.” -- Shakespeare

“I use the weight of dress, height of shoes and layers of skirt to represent women’s inner strength and confidence.” – Guo Pei

To embrace the year of the Rabbit, SAAH will host the banquet at Jade Dynasty’s main dining area and present a selection of short videos on the world’s first native Chinese haute couturiere.* We hope that her incredible life story, theatrical sculptural forms, sumptuous 3-D surfaces, intricate craftsmanship, infused with embroidered fantasy, myths, historical and cross-cultural references, and labor of love will uplift you and your guests to a great start for the year! *Individually tailored dress with the highest level of craftsmanship and creativity.

Born in 1967, Guo Pei lived through the hardships of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Before she became internationally known, she had been a premier fashion designer in China, dressing rich celebrities and social elites for two decades. 2015 was a pivotal turning point when pop singer Rihanna appeared in Guo Pei’s Yellow Queen cape at The Met’s gala to inaugurate the Fashion Institute’s exhibition, China: Through the Looking Glass.  The cape, weighing 25 kgs with 50,000 hours’ worth of embroidery and two years to create, bedazzled the fashion world. Invitations from major art museums, fashion and crafts institutes landed on Guo Pei’s doorstep. In late 2016, she won the title as an “invited member” of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture,* the highest honor an haute couturiere can ever hope for. *The governing body of the high fashion industry,

The 2016 Time 100 named Guo Pei as one of the most influential artists. What sets her apart from the rest of the haute couturiers? San Francisco Legion of Honor Museum textile curator Jill D’Alessandro sums it up: “This global worldview manifiests itselft in her designs, which draw equally from Asian and European aesthetic traditions to occupy a space between fashion, theater, performance, and sculpture.”

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The 4th Meeting of the 2022-2023 Season

Date & Time: Monday, January 9, 2023, 7:00 PM

Venue: Art 101Auditorium, UH Art Department

Parking: $1 per hour payable in the parking machines behind the Kennedy Theater or the Art Building. Only credit cards can be used (not cash).

Speaker: Stephen Marvin, SAAH member, scholar, art collector and former investment banker. He holds a B.A. in Asian Studies from Stanford University, an M.A. in Art History from UH Manoa. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at UH Manoa.

The Program:

After working for an insurance company in Hawaii and at the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry in Tokyo, Stephen (Steve) Marvin began a career in corporate finance and investment banking that spanned 30 years, from 1985 to 2015. He spent most of this period in Tokyo and Seoul in the employ of major European and Korean financial institutions and as a partner at a large hedge fund based in Hong Kong. After retiring from his investment career, he went back to school and earned an M.A. in Art History at UH Manoa in 2021.

In this presentation, Steve will discuss Korean Hyper-realism painting as an artistic expression  and genre.

Korean Hyper-realism is often lumped together with Trompe-l'œil in general and American Photo-realism in particular. These latter two genres seek to replicate reality perfectly and thus fool the eye. Born out of the extreme political turmoil of South Korea under military dictatorship during the 1970s and 1980s, Hyper-realism developed as a medium for artists to euphemistically express political dissent, comment on the loss of traditional society, and blend realism with surrealism. It is thus very different from American Photo-Realism and remains an under-appreciated artform even in Korea. 

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The 3rd Meeting of the 2022-2023 Season

Date & Time: Monday, November 7 at 7 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30)

Venue: UH Manoa Art 101 auditorium, next to the big auditorium. Look for SAAH signs on the door and pillars.

Parking: $7 per night. Take the 1st left turn past EWC Gallery on Correa St., park anywhere by the Art Department building.
*After 4:00 pm, parking is permissible in any non-reserved stall. Payment is made at the Pay Stations located near the stalls in each lot. These Pay Stations accept credit cards; Discover, Master and Visa. No refunds are issued for these machines. Carpool / invite friends!

Speaker: Tom Klobe, Emeritus Professor of Islamic art and founding director of University of Hawai’i Art Gallery, Manoa 

The Program: The Art of Display: presenting art objects with tips on living with and enjoying your collection

A nationally recognized exhibition designer and art professor, Tom Klobe organized numerous international shows and designed over 200 exhibits, five of which received the prestigious Print Casebook Award for Best in Exhibition Design in competition with major museums in the US and abroad. He taught Islamic and medieval art, as well as courses in Museum Studies during his 29-year tenure at UH (1977-2006). Since retirement, he has authored a number of books, including Exhibitions: Concept, Planning and Design, published by the American Association of Museum Press, 2012, which is now a collectors item.

His most recent book, The Islamic Ceilings of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo: Other Views, offers a nuanced view of issues surrounding the attributions and meanings of the paintings on the ceilings, while highlighting the brilliance of the Muslim and Normandy periods in Sicily.      

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The 2nd Meeting of the 2022-2023 Season

Date & Time: Monday, Oct 3, 2022, 7 PM (Doors open at 6 PM)

Venue: UH Manoa Art 101, parking spaces behind Art Dept available, $7 per night.

*After 4:00 pm, parking is permissible in any non-reserved stall. Payment is made at the Pay Stations located near the stalls in each lot. These Pay Stations accept credit cards; Discover, Master and Visa. No refunds are issued for these machines. Carpool / invite friends!

Speaker: Amber McClure, independent documentary producer, filmmaker, genealogist, and a yonsei (4th generation Japanese) from Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi.

The Program: Screening and talk of her documentary Finding Dohi

FINDING DOHI is an intimate portrait of a woman separated by culture, language, and thousands of miles from a family she has never met. Daphne, a 3rd generation Japanese American, holds on to letters sent to her mother long ago. The contents of the letters are written in Japanese, which she cannot read or understand the language. Thus begins her decades-long pursuit to fill in the scant details she knows about her Grandfather Dohi, who immigrated to Hawai'i from a rural Japanese village in 1891. 

Amber McClure served for six years as Digital Engagement Manager and Program Manager for Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC) - a member of the National Minority Consortia - supporting filmmakers with the distribution of films for national broadcast. While at PIC, she worked on the first four seasons of the PACIFIC HEARTBEAT anthology public television series distributed by American Public Television. She received her BA in Cultural Anthropology/Japanese from Western Washington University and MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London. She is currently enrolled in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Museum Studies certificate program. FINDING DOHI is her first film.

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The 1st Meeting of the 2022-2023 Season

Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Venue: East West Center Gallery, UH Manoa
Time: 7 PM (opens at 6:30; to comply with Covid-19, scan EWC QR code at entrance with your cell phone. Assistance available.)

The Program: A multi-faceted celebration – honoring three scholarship awardees; video screening and talk on “Weaving a Net(work) of Care for Oceanic Collection” by Curator Dr. Anna Reynolds; and Mid-Autumn Festival moon cake tasting!

We are very fortunate to be able to hold the first meeting of the fall season in the East-West Center’s Burns Hall again. The evening program will begin with a warm introduction to welcome three scholarship recipients, followed by a 20-minute video screening of the current exhibition and a brief gallery tour by Dr. Anna Reynolds.  The exhibition is an outcome of a collaborative effort between Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander museum professionals to conserve and maintain their cultural heritage.  The twenty participants across the Pacific each brought something to share, which formed the core body of the display.

Dr. Reynolds is currently the Curator of the EWC Gallery. She earned her PhD in Theatre and MA in Asian Studies from UH Mānoa and her BM in Music from San Francisco State University. She and her husband, I Made Widana, have been leading the Honolulu-based Balinese gamelan music and dance ensembles. They have offered numerous educational outreach programs across Hawai‘i through the auspices of the UHM Outreach College, UHM Department of Theatre and Dance, Arts Focus Southeast Asia, and the East-West Center.  She was a 2015-16 SAAH scholarship recipient.

Lastly, a time for celebration! Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is right around the corner! A symbol of togetherness and unity, it is especially meaningful after two years of Covid-19.  There will be moon cakes and other refreshments provided.  Come enjoy!

A hui hou!

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May 30, 2022 Annual Banquet/Meeting/Election

 
Date:  Monday, May 30, 2022 
Venue Maple Garden Main Dining Room,
Time: Registration 6:30 PM (Door opens at 6 PM)
Dinner at 7 PM

Cost:      $45 per person, $20 tax deductible; students are free.
Payment method: Credit cards and checks are accepted at the door.

To reduce wait time at the door, mail check to:
                             SAAH, P.O. Box 240721, Honolulu, HI 96824

Deadline:          May 26, 2022

Menu: 1. Winter melon soup; 2. Beggar's chicken; 3. Salt & Pepper fried fish filet; 4. Dried tofu slice stir-fry with Chinese celery (no meat); 5. Stuffed eggplant with taro (no meat); 6. Dessert, lychee sorbet or green tea ice cream.

May 30, 2022 Annual Meeting Agenda

6:30 – 7:00 Registration (doors open at 6 pm)

7:00 – 8:00 Dinner. President welcome remarks

8:00 – 8:30 2019-20 Scholarship awardee Marina George reports
(Topic: Carving Kingship: Royal Art from South India)

2021-22 Scholarship awardee Jane Traynor reports
(Topic: Kyogen: Embodied Learning, my Kyogen training experiences in Kyoto)

 8:30 – 9:00 Business Meeting
-Approval of May 3, 2019 minutes  
-Reports by President, Vice President, Treasurer 
-Reports by chairs: Scholarship; Membership; Program  

ELECT OFFICERS & DIRECTORS by SHOW OF HANDS

The following officers served from 2019 up to 2022.  In 2020, they were re-elected for the 2nd term. (Note: Each officer’s term is for 1 year and can serve a maximum of 2 years.) Due to the pandemic, their 2nd term was voluntarily extended to 2022.  

Officers:

President: Li Lundin
Vice President: Roberta Sullivan
Program Secretary: Didi Lau
Treasurer: Carolyn Haik

Directors:

The following directors served from 2019 up to 2022. Their term officially ended in 2021. (2010 revised bylaws stipulates that each term is for 2yrs vs. 2008 version for 3 yrs. The discovery was just before the most recent board meeting. Board voted to follow the 2010 stipulation.) Ray, Charlie, Cyndy and Geri are willing to serve another term to 2024. Dr. Earnest Lee and Roberta Sullivan are willing to serve from 2022-2024.   

James Brow       2019-2021 (Board secretary)
Amb Ray Burghardt 2019-2021 (Scholarship Committee)
Amb Charlie Salmon 2019-2021 (Director at large)
Dr. Cyndy Ning 2020-2022 (Scholarship Committee)
Geri Ferrer-Chan 2020-2022 (Membership Chair)
Dr. Ernest Lee 2022-2024
Roberta Sullivan 2022-2024 

2022-2023 Officers Nominees

President: ?
Vice President: ?
Program Secretary: ?
Treasurer: Carolyn Haik

2022-2024 Directors Nominees:

Dr. Ernest Lee 2022-2024 
Roberta Sullivan 2022-2224

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The 4th Meeting of the 2021-2022 Season

Date: Monday, April 4, 2022 
Venue & Time: Maple Garden Front Room, 7 PM (registration 6:30 PM)
The Program: Celebrating Persian New Year's at Persepolis
Guest Speaker: Tom Klobe, Peace Corps volunteer to Iran, professor of Islamic art and Director Emeritus of UH Art Gallery, Manoa 

Persepolis was built in the 6th and 5th centuries BC as a ceremonial city for the first great empire of recorded history. Dignitaries and their entourages from throughout the empire processed to Persepolis at Nowruz (New Year's) on the first day of spring bearing tribute and gifts for the king. Within the reliefs at Persepolis, we see those processions coming from as far away as the western edges of China, India, the Nile valley, the islands of Greece, and the Balkans.

In 1964, as a college graduate from UH Manoa, Tom Klobe joined the Peace Corps in response to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. It began his 2-year long journey as a Volunteer of Community Development in a remote Iranian town, Alang, near the Caspian Sea.  That experience, he said, was life changing. 

He eventually returned to UH and became the founding director of the Art Gallery and taught Islamic art from 1977-2006. During his tenure, he curated more than 200 art exhibitions and did innumerable installations for the school and art community. Prof. Klobe was named a Living Treasure of Hawai’i in 2005 and received the University of Hawaii Robert W. Clopton Award for Distinguished Community Service in 2003.  In 1999 he was honored by the Republic of France as a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts in France and Hawai’i.

In 2021 he was honored by Hawaii Arts Alliance and was presented the Preis Award.  

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The 3rd Meeting of 2021- 2022 Season

Date & Time: Monday, March 7, 2022, 7 PM
Venue: Zoom
Topic: China Past and Present: What does China’s past tell us about China today

We are hugely honored to have Professor Dame Jessica Rawson’s blessing to feature this online presentation that she gave to the Merton College of Oxford University in November 2020. Drawing from imperial artifacts, belief systems, culture specifics, archaeological finds, geographical and environmental differences, she presents many stimulating food-for-thought illustrations and comparisons between China and the West, past and present.  

An erudite art historian, educator, curator and dynamic administrator, Prof. Rawson served for 26 years at the British Museum and retired as the Keeper of the Department of Oriental Antiquities. She then became the first woman to be the Warden of Merton College. She has taught at Oxford, Cambridge, University of London and held visiting professorships at the universities of Heidelberg, Chicago, Peking, and Hangzhou. She is best known for her research on the interaction of the peoples of Central China with those along the borders of northern Eurasia, which resulted in major innovations, such as the introduction of metallurgy to China. She has organized visits with Chinese colleagues to Mongolia, Siberia and Central Asia to explore these important developments.

During her long and distinguished career, she has received many honors, including her appointment as a Fellow of the British Academy in 1990, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, and her receipt in 2017 of the Charles Lang Freer Medal from the Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. She was made an Honorary Fellow of Merton following the end of her Wardenship in 2010 and an Honorary Professor at Peking University in 2019. She has been recognized multiple times on the Queen’s Honors lists. Professor Rawson was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1994 and was awarded the title of Dame Commander in 2002 for services to oriental studies.

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The 2nd Meeting of the 2021-2022 Season

Date & Time: Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 7 PM

Link to Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87463780823
Speaker: Mr. Stephen Marvin, collector, former investment banker, B.A. in Asian Studies, Stanford University; M.A. in Art History, UH Manoa 
The Program: The Iconography of Noh Masks

Stephen (Steve) Marvin led a successful career in corporate finance and investment banking in Tokyo, Korea and Hong Kong that spanned 30 years, from 1985 to 2015. He retired in 2016 and received his M.A. in Art History at UH Manoa in May 2021.  We are delighted and honored to have him as a new member. 

This evening Steve will enlighten us on the iconography of Noh masks, a topic he presented to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney in conjunction with the exhibition “Theater of dreams, theater of play” in 2014.  Noh masks employ highly developed and sophisticated iconography to project the personae of characters to the audience. This symbolism allows for subtle differentiation of personality traits and emotional states among masks that, at first glance, appear very similar, affording Noh actors the ability to convey nuanced interpretations of standard characters.

Aside from research papers published in academic journals and conferences, Steve was invited to give a lecture at The Rubin Museum of Art in New York for the 2016 exhibition “Becoming Another – The Power of Masks.”  He is the author of Heaven Has a Face, So Does Hell: The Art of the Noh Mask, which was hailed as an in-depth study that “brings a comprehensive treatment of the art of the Noh mask to an English language audience for the first time.” Steve is fluent in spoken and written Japanese. Presently, a new exhibition at a museum in Kyoto is showcasing a significant portion of his Noh mask collection.  

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The 1st Meeting of 2021- 2022 Season

Date & Time: Monday, January 10, 2022, 7:00 PM
Venue: Zoom
The program: Integrating Architecture with Landscape: My Design Experiments in China  
Guest Speaker: Dr. Pu Miao, Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture, University of Hawaii at Manoa

An acclaimed architect and scholar, Dr. Pu Miao will speak about his approach to create modern architecture in China that reflects local culture. He believes that one must go beyond imitating traditional forms or copying Western fashions and instead search for spatial patterns corresponding to the unique needs of local users today. He will use his built designs to illustrate four modes to integrate buildings and landscape: outdoor spaces as alternative places for indoor activities, architecture and landscape each playing a unique role in a functional pair, architecture partially taking the form of landscape, and gardens as urban public spaces in a building.

Dr. Miao earned a BA from Tongji University, Shanghai and received his M.Arch and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. He started teaching at UH School of Architecture in 1994 and retired last year. He is based in Honolulu and Shanghai. His designs have won awards and have been published in international journals, exhibitions and other media. Most recently his designs were featured in Chris van Uffelen, ed., China: The New Creative Power in Architecture (Salenstein, Switzerland: Braun, 2021). Dr. Miao authored the book Public Places in Asia Pacific Cities and many research papers on architecture and urban design in Asia and China. This presentation is based on Miao’s new book A Dialogue between Architecture and Landscape: Pu Miao’s Architectural Design (Shanghai: Tongji University Press, 2021).  

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An Interview with Artist Kamran Samimi by Li Lundin Oct. 23, 2021

L: As an artist, you have navigated through the Covid-19 turmoil remarkably well. Your 2019 art residency at the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design was extended from 6 months to 15 months. What was your initial state of mind when the pandemic first broke out in Hawaii? 

K: To be honest, the early days of the pandemic are kind of a blur, and hard to remember with any sort of precision -- So much has happened both within myself, and in the world around me.  It was a very multi-layered response: Confusion, disbelief, optimism, depression.  At first, I was most worried for the older folks around the world who were really impacted, and dying from Covid. On a more personal level, I was frustrated by the cancellation of several projects I was planning, not to mention economic and health-related concerns. Overall, I’m very fortunate that I was able to remain here in Hawai’i, relatively distant from the epicenter(s) while people around the world experienced incredible hardships.

Despite it all, I was very grateful for my residency at Shangri La, which started before the pandemic. During lockdown, the staff were really supportive and dropped off art supplies, books for me to read, etc. When the lockdown was lifted, I spent a lot of time by myself on site. Shangri La became an anchor in the storm, and provided an outlet for me to express and explore my complicated feelings of grief and gratitude.

L: So during the 15 months, you created a rich body of works in a wide range of materials.  Starting with the in-situ Ascendants around the fountain, it’s an enigmatic combination as a whole in terms of material, scale, form and concept. Can you tell us about the impetus for this work?

K: The Ascendants sculptures pay tribute and connect to the countless human beings whom I descend from, on both my mother’s and father’s sides. But another important facet of this is the fact that all humans can trace back our DNA to Mitochondrial Eve in Africa approximately 200,000 years ago. So in that sense, these sculptures honor your ancestors too.

You’ll notice that each one is made from a different material - some ancient and some modern.  Collectively, these are the materials that our species has used to create the world we know today: natural materials like Marble, Granite, Basalt, wood, but also manufactured materials like plexiglass, aluminum, and Corten steel.  By keeping the materials austere and minimally altered, I honor mankind’s material ancestors and their ultimate source: The earth itself. Additionally, the granite, white marble, and monkeypod wood sculptures were all sourced from Shangri La’s architecture and landscape.

L: Another Ascendants related question is: Others might have created this site-specific on a wide-open lawn by the sea.  Did you choose the fountain courtyard for a reason?

K: The courtyard was selected for several reasons: Before Covid, and at the beginning of my residency, my dad visited Shangri La with me for the first time.  He was born in Tehran, Iran, but left when he was 6 years old.  However, as soon as he saw the mosaic panel from Isfahan, he was captivated by the colors and patterns, saying it reminded him of his childhood -- a place long ago and far away. Watching him connect with that past was really meaningful for me, and I wanted to commemorate that significant moment of intergenerational transmission. 

Another reason for the placement: in Persian traditional architecture, many homes have a hayat, or courtyard within the house. This is typically a social space, where one would visit with their grandparents or family members. I never met my grandparents, but I like to think that perhaps the sculptures could become spiritual objects in which they could inhabit, where I could physically meet them for the first time.

L: Your intense exploration of material strikes a chord with Confucius’ Great Learning, ge wu zhi zhi -- the investigation of things for attaining knowledge of the universe with sincerity and good conscience.  For instance, your narrative about the Dark Matter paintings is a good example.  Can you tell us how you approached each of the triptychs to reveal the “matter?” 

K: I really like the connection you’ve drawn there. I think many cultures know the myriad unseen ways in which the material and spiritual worlds overlap.  In the same vein as Confucius’ Great Learning, I spend a lot of time studying and “listening” to my materials, especially stone. If one takes the time to listen, each stone tells an incredible story - of its dynamic past, its quiet present, and its immaterial future.  I wanted to pay tribute to this ancient material --literally the foundation of all we know -- by creating three paintings which visually tell the stones’ story, and each one focuses on a different facet of the stones’ reality or truth.  To create the artworks, I draped each stone with an unstretched piece of canvas and used oil-paint sticks to trace the surface of the stone, giving a visual form to the unseen essence within the stones.

L: I found  Of Stone and Sea intriguing. First, the white cement you used as the sole pigment, which is very unusual and exciting. I surmise it is the Stone.  The black and white with ink flowing and dripping is the Sea? There’s a spirit of “anything goes” and “go with the flow,” which resonates with Daoism. What struck you to conceive these two works? 

K: I’ve had an interest in Zen and Daoism for many years now, and continually find that practicing detachment and mindfulness is a more sensible approach to living in this uncertain world. These paintings are a self-portrait: Seeing within myself both stone-like structure and water-like fluidity.  In short, the white cement foundation is the stone, and its production was very methodical, structured, meditative, solemn.  The paint which I poured over the surface is my way of channeling water - letting go, flowing, spontaneous, the paint following its liquid nature and forging its own path.

Incidentally, one of the things that Shangri La (and Covid) has taught me is that I need to loosen up, and give up some of the control which I have always believed I needed.  I don’t have to be so systematic and contrived with my approach to art-making.  In fact, the more I relax, the more natural and expressive my artwork becomes.  The beginnings of this more fluid approach can be seen in the calligraphy brushwork paintings which I showed at HoMA, but it is now a big part of my practice and is especially evident in the Dark Matter paintings discussed above.

L: How did these 15 works evolve in such a way that they are conceptually cohesive and at the same time express your multi-faceted quest for materiality, identity, and spirituality? 

K: The extended duration at Shangri La gave me a lot more time to sit quietly and observe the landscape around me, and more importantly, within me. The work that was exhibited had been slowly growing inside of me my entire life, but it really needed the extra year to come to fruition.  I had a lot of great conversations with Dr. Leslee Michelsen (Shangri La’s curator) about ancestry, earth, material, and spirituality. These discussions helped reframe and connect with my complicated artist identity: the Persian/Norwegian heritage I grew up with in the countryside of Hawai’i Island, influenced by philosophies from Central and East Asia. 

All of the exhibited artwork reflects different aspects of these themes, and I created all of it simultaneously. When I work in this way, I find that the different materials teach me about each other. For example: the wood grain will teach me about painting brushstrokes. Grinding a stone teaches me patience - to not rush my process, and take time to study, sit and listen, and then visually articulate what is within me. Ultimately, all of the artwork that comes out of me expresses what I feel it means to be alive at this moment in time, and this point in space.

L: Thank you so very much for sharing the inner dynamics of your art project. The Museum’s wise decision and your artistic endeavors worked out beautifully. It’s worth celebrating when something good comes out of the gloom and doom. 

K: It’s truly my pleasure to chat and speak a bit more about my exhibition. I wish it had been more accessible and easier to visit during Covid-19, but videos and images can be found on my website here: www.kamransamimi.com/sanctuaries and Shangri La’s website here: www.shangrilahawaii.org/visit/exhibitions/kamran-samimi-sanctuaries/

All images are courtesy of Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Honolulu, Hawaii and © 2021 Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, photographers: David Franzen and Elyse Butler.

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The 6th Meeting of the 2019-2020 Season

Date & Time: Monday, March 2nd, 2020, 6:30 PM
Venue: Linekona Art School Room 101 (street & paid parking available)
The program: Member’s Talk Story
Guest Speakers: Li Lundin, Kamran Samimi, Karl Cheng

This month we're excited to have three of our members presenting about topics which they know well. Read below for details:

Kamran Samimi, contemporary artist, will talk about his artist practice and current artist residency at Shangri La. Focused on revealing the underlying framework within his materials, Kamran abstracts, reduces, and distills objects down to their raw essence.

Karl Cheng, retired engineer, will be discussing thoughts that he had gained in appreciating Chinese antique work as well as that for some of Japanese, and some pointers he learned from others in identifying Chinese antique porcelains.

Li Lundin, program chair, will talk about her solo adventure from Guangzhou (Canton) to Xi’an in 1980’s and show the stele rubbing replicas of master calligraphers she acquired at the famous Museum of Stone Steles. She will focus on a few works and comment on the making of rubbings, love, regret and friendship she gleaned from the calligraphy.

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Date & Time: Thursday, January 30, 2020, 6:30 p.m. Registration begins at 6 p.m.
Venue: Maple Garden, 909 Isenberg Street. Tel: 941-6641.
Parking: Restaurant parking lot, or First Hawaiian Bank. Bank closes at 4 pm on Thursdays.
Cost: $60 per person ($25 tax deductible). Please fill out the form at the bottom and mail it in your check, payable to SAAH or pay at the door with Credit Card. Scholarship students free.

You must RSVP and specify the names of your guests and your payment method.

Deadline: January 27, 2020. Free seating. Max 60 persons. BYOB!

The Menu: 1) Dry Scallop Fish Maw Soup; 2) 4-Cup Chicken; 3) Steamed Garlic Shrimp with Luk Fen; 4) Smoky Tea Duck; 5) Taro Pork Belly; 6) Steamed Whole Seasonal Fish; 7) Chive Flower with Shredded Pork and Dry Tofu; 8) Stir- fried Garlic Snow Pea leaves; 9) Desserts. Vegetarians/Vegans: Please contact Vice President Roberta Sullivan (C: 561-5882)

Guest speaker: Dr. Kate Lingley, Associate Professor of Art History; Chair of Department of Art and Art History, UH Mānoa  
Topic: Ruins, Traces, and Pathways: Contemporary Art and the Chinese City

One of the defining experiences of contemporary life in Sinophone East Asia has been rapid urbanization, most dramatically in the People’s Republic of China, but also in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore. While the premodern Chinese painting tradition, in foregrounding landscape painting above other subjects, has focused on remote mountain landscapes and unspoiled wildernesses, these spaces are rapidly disappearing from many parts of the Chinese cultural sphere today, thanks to the growth of cities and industrial landscapes. As a result, contemporary artists’ response to urbanization has become a major theme in the contemporary art of the region. This talk will explore some of the ways in which contemporary artists in Chinese cities have used their work to respond to the changing social, aesthetic, political, and physical environment they occupy, with special attention to Beijing and Hong Kong. 

Professor Kate A. Lingley has a B.A. from Harvard-Radcliffe College, M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on Buddhist votive sculpture of the Northern and Southern Dynasties period, with a particular interest in the social history of religious art in medieval China.  Her articles in this area have been published in Asia Major, Ars Orientalis, Early Medieval China, and Archives of Asian Art, among others. A book project related to her research interest is underway.

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The 4th Meeting of the 2019-2020 Season

Date & Time: Monday, January 6th, 2020. 6:30 PM
Venue: Linekona Art School Room 101 (street & paid parking available)
The program: “Ash is Purest White”—A Study of Constancy in a Time of Upheaval
Guest Speaker: Cyndy Ning, Associate Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Jia Zhangke (49) is widely acknowledged as the best known of China’s “Sixth Generation” filmmakers. Some critics have called him one of the most important directors in the world today.

His 2018 film Ash is Purest White is Jia’s twelfth feature, and continues his exploration of the effects of globalization on individuals in contemporary China. Its protagonist is a steely-eyed young woman named Qiao, played by Zhao Tao, the wife of the director. Qiao is devoted to a small-time hoodlum, but she must forge her own path when he betrays her. Traversing time (over a decade) and space (by bus, train and boat from Datong to Fengjie on the Three Gorges Dam to the far west), the film depicts one marginalized woman’s journey through a China transformed by the rapid pace of modernization.

Cyndy Ning is Associate Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She has written series of textbooks for learning Chinese language and culture, and teaches an undergraduate course on contemporary Chinese cinema.

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The 3rd Meeting of the 2019-2020 Season

Date & Time: Monday, Nov 4, 2019, 6:30 PM
Venue & Parking: Linekona Art School Room 101, street & paid parking available  
The program: The State of Chinese Art in America
Guest speaker: Mary Ann Rogers, scholar of Chinese art history, teacher, museum adjunct, Kaikodo gallery owner

Since her university student days and then as a professional in the field of Asian art, Mary Ann Rogers has seen immense changes in the world of Chinese art in America.  The materials that she had access to in American museums during the 1960-70s were a godsend.  The early 20th century activity that built those collections, and led to critically important literature in the field, have either slowed immensely, stopped altogether, or shifted from the hallowed traditional arts that were at the core of her education to photography and contemporary painting.  Collecting Chinese art in America, in fact, has experienced a seismic disruption, most intensely felt during the last decade.  This talk will try to elucidate the background and developments that brought us to where we are today in this engaging field.

A highly respected expert in Chinese art, Mary Ann received her BA in Art History from the University of California at Berkeley; an MPhil in Chinese Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; and worked toward a PhD in Chinese painting at UC Berkeley.  In 1993, her PhD work informed the seminal essay she wrote for the exhibition catalog on early Ming dynasty painting, shown at the Kimbell Art Museum in Texas and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.  A frequent contributor to journals of Asian art and culture, exhibition catalogues and conferences, she also taught Chinese art both in the States and Japan.  She worked for the Idemitsu Museum of Arts in Tokyo for a decade and during that time, in 1983, she and her husband Howard established a company, Kaikodo, in Kamakura.  In 1996, they opened their gallery in New York City and themselves relocated to the Big Island. Today, they travel back and forth between Hawai'i, New York and Japan, while presenting several exhibitions a year in NYC and producing the gallery’s Kaikodo Journal.

A rare opportunity! We look forward to seeing you!

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The 2nd Meeting of the 2019-2020 Season

Date & Time:   Monday, October 7th, 2019, 7 PM
Venue:  Linekona Art School Room 101 (street & paid parking available)
The program: India and its Horizons: Material Culture and Trans-Indian Ocean Collaborations in Women’s Clothing
Guest Speaker:  Prof. Ned Bertz, Associate Professor of History, UH Mānoa

‘I Shall Partake of My Neighbor’s Coconut’

Expand your horizons! In this presentation, Professor Ned Bertz will speak about artistic and cultural exchanges across the Indian Ocean world. The rich and vibrant cotton textile industry of India historically has clothed residents of the vast and interconnected world of Indian Ocean. While colonial oppression significantly deindustrialized India, patterns of textile exchange across the ocean persisted in altered form. The quotidian kanga – colorful and ubiquitous garments worn by women in East Africa – is a perfect example. To the present, much of the market share of kangas belongs to entrepreneurs based in India, who influence fashion styles and print Swahili proverbs on garments that have tremendous cultural value for East African women.  In this relationship of commerce and collaboration, we see an important form of daily material culture complicate categories like ‘Asian’ and ‘African’ art.  Instead, this talk will suggest that conceiving of western India and eastern Africa as historical neighbors reveals items like the kanga, which symbolizes the shared production and consumption of art and culture across the western Indian Ocean.    

Prof. Ned Bertz, author of Diaspora and Nation in the Indian Ocean: Transnational Histories of Race and Urban Space in Tanzania (2015), was awarded the Kenneth W. Baldridge Prize for 2014-2016 and was shortlisted for the International Convention of Asia Scholars Africa-Asia Book Prize for 2015-18. His research interests include the circulation and meaning of Indian popular culture, notably cinema. He teaches a class on film in history about Bollywood, and has written on the history of Indian movies throughout Africa. He offers other courses involving the history of South Asia, Africa, and the Indian Ocean, world history, sports history, history and literature, and historiography. In 2010, he was awarded the University of Hawaiʻi Regents Award for Excellence in Teachin

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The 1st Meeting of the 2019-2020 Season

Date & Time: Tues, September 3, 2019, 7 PM
Venue & Parking:  East-West Center Gallery; paid parking available  
The program: We have a two part program:
I. SAAH scholarship awards to two graduate students: Mary Kim and Marina George 
II. Inside Out – A talk and highlight tour by Dr. Michael Schuster, Curator of EWC Gallery 

Inside Out is a retrospective of the East-West Center Gallery’s visual presentations of the past 15 years, curated by Dr. Michael Schuster and designed by Lynne Najita, highlighting the diverse cultures, customs, art, crafts, geography and social issues of the Pacific and Asia region. Following its guiding principle – to promote better relations between America and Pacific Asia – the Gallery has presented over 50 exhibitions with aesthetic beauty and quality. It has served as a bridge, a window to the cultures and social conditions in the region and provided immeasurable visual and learning experiences to the local community. 

Dr. Schuster, an expert in Pacific Asia theater and folk arts, has served as folk arts coordinator for the State of Hawai’i, and as folklorist for the National Organization for traditional artist exchange. He will share his insight in the curatorial process to reveal the intrinsic values of the selected objects and the people who produced them. 

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May 3, 2019 Annual Meeting and Banquet

Date:         Thursday, May 3, 2018
Time:        Registration: 6:30~7:00 PM.  Dinner at 7pm.
Venue:    Maple Garden

Schedule
6:30 – 7:00 Registration
7:00 – 8:00 Dinner served. Opening remarks by President Bill Zanella
8:00 – 8:20 Scholarship recipients’ reports: Taylor Twadelle, Mary Kim,Bianca Rajan
8:20 – 9:00 Business meeting:President’s report; Vice President’s report, Treasurer’s report
Chairs’ reports: Scholarship; Membership; Program; Venue
ELECTION OF OFFICERS; DIRECTORS BY SHOW OF HANDS
Announcement of election result by Vice President
Remarks by New President and Vice President
9:00 --9:15 New business

May 2019 Slate of Directors, Officers, Chairs

Current Directors:
Dr. Don Hibbard          2017-2020
Dr. Diane Perushek     2017-2020
Dr. Ernest Lee 2018-2019 (term ends )
Dr. Cyndy Ning 2018-2019 (term ends)
Dr. Bill Won          2017-2019 (term ends)

Officers:
President: Dr. William Zanella
Vice-President: Dr. James Langworthy
Co-Secretaries: Deidre Lau; Sanna S. Deutsch
Treasurer: Carolyn Haik
Venue Co-Chairs: Vivien Stackpole, Darryl Wong
Membership Chair: Chih Chen
Program Chair: Li Lundin
Scholarship Committee Chair: Dr. Don Hibbard

Nominees:
President: Li Lundin
Vice-President: Roberta Sullivan
Co-Secretaries: Didi Lau
Treasurer: Carolyn Haik

Chairs:
Venue Co-Chairs: Dana Yee, Darryl Wong
Membership Chair: Chih Chen
Program Co-Chairs: Li Lundin, Dr. Bill Zanella, Roberta Sullivan
Scholarship Committee Chair: Dr. Don Hibbard

2019-2020 Directors:
Diane Perushek    2017-2020
Don Hibbard         2017-2020
James Brow 2019-2021
Amb Ray Burghardt 2019-2021
Amb Charlie Salmon 2019-2021

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The 7th Meeting of the 2018-2019 Season

Date & Time:  Monday, April 1, 2019, 7 PM
Venue:  Linekona Art School Room 101 (street & paid parking available)
The program: The program: Ancient Bronzes and Ceramics of Vietnam
Guest Speaker:  Mr. James Brow

Mr. James Brow, who retired from U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2018 and moved to Honolulu recently, will discuss his research based on his family collection of ancient Dong Son culture bronzes and Vietnamese ceramics.

 From about 700 BCE to 100 BCE, a wide variety of bronzes were produced in Viet Nam, which included weaponry, household implements, farm tools, decorative objects and drums.  In 1924, bronze artifacts were discovered in Dong Son village along the bank of the Ma River in Thanh Hoa province in north-central Viet Nam by French government officials.  Subsequent archaeological work conducted revealed an existing Bronze Age culture.  The Dong Son culture flourished until the colonization of Viet Nam by the Chinese Han Dynasty in 111 BCE. Bronze production continued but with distinctive Chinese designs and decorations.

 Ceramic production has an even longer and equally rich history in Viet Nam. Since the discovery of 10,000-year-old pottery shards in mountain caves of northern Viet Nam, ceramics took its place as one of Viet Nam’s most important artistic expressions.  Mr. Brow will discuss the evolution of Vietnamese ceramic production through the major dynastic periods.

Mr. Brow and his wife Betty spent 24 years working in Asia, including Mr. Brow’s 12 years in Viet Nam as CEO/part owner of a foreign-invested company. They collected and researched objects that reflect the broad range of Vietnamese art.

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The 6th Meeting of the 2018-2019 Season

Date & Time:  March 4, 2019, 7:00 PM
Venue:  Linekona Art School Room 101 (street & paid parking available)
The program:  Wabi Sabi: The Aesthetics of Spirituality
Guest Speaker:  Gregory Pai, Ph.D

Dr. Gregory Pai will talk about the history and meaning of wabi sabi as a way of seeing the world, its basis in the Buddhist contemplative tradition, and its relevance for our everyday experience of the world.

Dr. Pai has studied and practiced meditation since the mid-seventies in the Tibetan Buddhist, Zen Buddhist, and Vipassana or Insight Meditation traditions. He was also trained at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California and has taught meditation at Hawaii State Hospital, Kahi Mohala, Queens Hospital, the Institute for Human Services, Tripler Hospital and the Center for Alternative Medicine of the University of Hawaii School of Medicine. He currently teaches a public meditation class every Saturday afternoon at the Broken Ridge Korean Temple in Palolo Valley. He is a practicing artist and performing jazz percussionist. His paintings are exhibited at the Manoa Gallery and Nohea Gallery in Kahala Mall.

While pursuing a spiritual life, Dr. Pai also served in the administrations of Governor Benjamin Cayetano and John Waihee, as well as Commissioner for the Hawaii State Public Utilities Commission and Chief Economist for the First Hawaiian Bank. 

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Chinese New Year’s Banquet: Year of the Boar

Sunday, Feb. 3 2019
House of Wong Restaurant, 477 Kapahulu Ave. Honolulu, HI
Doors open at 6 pm, Dinner - 6:30-7:15 pm, followed by guest talk

Map, directions, photos etc.:
https://www.yelp.com/biz/house-of-wong-restaurant-honolulu

Price: $60 per person for members and guests; $15 is tax deductible (cancelled check or credit card statement is your receipt).

Menu: rainbow appetizer combination platter, sautéed fresh scallops & chicken with greens, rice paper-wrapped shrimp rolls, dried scallop soup with enoki mushrooms, Maine lobster in ginger & green onions, sliced abalone with black mushrooms in King oyster sauce, golden crispy chicken, steamed whole fish, house e-mein and red bean soup with lotus seeds for dessert.

Parking: Free at First Hawaiian Bank parking lot or $2 validation at Hee Hing building underground lot.

Guest speaker: Dr. Christian E. Peterson, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Archaeology at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa; Topic: “Understanding Hongshan Society: Two Decades of Archaeological Research in NE China”

Abstract: Hongshan period (4500-3000 BCE) societies of northeastern China's Western Liao River Valley are well known for their ritual architecture and burials accompanied by jade artifacts carved in supernatural themes—including so-called "pig-dragons." Over the past two decades, systematic regional-scale settlement surveys and intensive surface collection of ancient household garbage have provided new information about the social, economic, and ritual organization of the Neolithic communities that made and used Hongshan ritual monuments and paraphernalia.

In this presentation, Dr. Peterson will summarize and compare the results of these surveys, surface collections, and other research, and discuss its relevance to understanding the emergence, organization, and development of Hongshan period society.

Prof. Peterson has helped design, direct or implement most of the Hongshan settlement survey and surface archaeology of the past twenty years. He specializes in Chinese prehistory, the comparative study of early complex societies, regional settlement patterns and demography, household archaeology, and in quantitative and spatial analysis. Some of his most recent publications include: "A Place of Pilgrimage? Niuheliang and its Role in Hongshan Society," 2017; "Hongshan Households and Communities in Neolithic Northeastern China," 2017; and "Comparative Analysis of Neolithic Household Artifact Assemblage Data from Northern China," 2016.

Reservation deadline: Friday, Feb. 1 (only 70 seats available; 7 tables seating 10 each) , BYOB—plastic cups will be provided.

 Note: this is the first time for the Society to use this venue. A portion of the restaurant will be screened off for our group and regular patrons will be in the other part of the restaurant.

Reservation Payment Procedure

 1. Mail check, made out to SAAH, Inc., to treasurer’s residence. Contact us for more info.

 Indicate separately your name and the names of any guests for whom you are paying. If you prefer to sit with someone, list the names. Seating requests will be handled on a first come, first reserved basis.

   2.   Pay by check or credit card at the door, night of the banquet

If you choose this option, you are still required to email Carolyn and state the same information as requested above. This is needed in order to confirm attendance for the restaurant.     

 IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU MAKE YOUR RESERVATION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO THE RESTAURANT KNOWS HOW MANY GUSETS TO PLAN FOR.
BEST WISHES FOR 2019!

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The 4th Meeting of the 2018-2019 Season

Date & Time: Monday, January 7, 2019, 7 PM
Venue & Parking: Linekona Art School, Room 101; parking available  
The program: Member’s Talk Story
Guest Speakers: Gene Doo, Chih Chen, Millie Liu,

 This meeting will revolve around an informal talk-story session with three of our members presenting different topics:

• Gene Doo will be sharing a painting by Qi Baishi, one of the most famous and influential Chinese modern painters of the 20th Century. 

• Chih Chen will be showing a documentary that was created by the Taiwan government about her father, Chen Chi Kwan, esteemed artist and architect.

• Millie Liu will be showing her Mandalay style 19th Century Buddha Head from Myanmar.

 Happy New Year and Hauʻoli Makahiki Hou!

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The 3rd Meeting of the 2018-2019 Season

Date & Time: Monday, November 5th, 2018, 7 PM
Venue & Parking: Linekona Art School, Room 101; parking available  
The program: The Feel of Heaven – Jades of China and the Pacific
Guest Speaker: Tusha Buntin, Co-owner and director of Robyn Buntin of Honolulu Gallery

Tusha Buntin, son of Judy and Robyn Buntin, original founders of the elegant and prestigious antique store on S. Beretania Street, will present a talk on Chinese and Maori jade toggles and ornaments. Treasured as the Stone of Heaven, Jade has one of the longest histories of the world's precious gems.  The Chinese have been carving Jade for over 6000 years. In Polynesia, the Maori grew to appreciate and revere it for its “Mana” and energy. Emphasizing its feel, Mr. Buntin will invite the audience to handle and examine the jade samples he brings to help illustrate the essence they epitomize. Please look forward to a sensory and interactive evening with jade!  

Tusha Buntin grew up on the Big Island, Japan, and Honolulu. At the age of 12, he entered Japanese public school in Fukuoka and his experiences in Japan changed his life. He learned another culture, its art forms and its history which has inspired a lifelong pursuit.

Tusha's father Robyn is an artist and sculptor who founded the art and antique gallery that Tusha and his sister Aisha run today, the Robyn Buntin of Honolulu Gallery. Watching the family antique store from the age of 10, he has been immersed in the world of art and antiques.  He studied at the University of Hawaii for Fine Arts and Asian Art History. Over 30 years of practice and study of the Japanese martial art of Kendo has led to a deep personal passion and appreciation of many traditional arts and philosophies.  His favorite areas of specialty include Chinese jade carvings, Polynesian weapons, Maori greenstone and adzes, as well as Japanese paintings and calligraphy.

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The 2nd Meeting of the 2018-2019 Season

Date & Time: Monday, October 1st, 2018, 7 PM
Venue & Parking: Linekona Art School, Room 101; parking available  
The program: The Art of Daoism
Guest Speaker: Dr. Shawn Eichman, Curator of Asian Art, Honolulu Museum of Art

During its long history, Daoism has had a pervasive influence on Chinese material culture. This is perhaps nowhere more evident than in ceramics, where Daoist motifs abound. The golden age of ceramics during the Ming dynasty saw an especially strong presence of Daoist inspired decorations, which reveal not only a great deal about the roles of Daoism in Chinese culture during the time, but also about interactions between Daoism and other spiritual traditions, from Buddhism to various regional movements. In this lecture, Dr. Eichman will trace the evolution of a specific Daoist artistic subject, that of the Eight Immortals, from their early origins; through their emergence as a group connected with the Quanzhen sect of Daoism and the rise to power of this sect in the Mongol Yuan dynasty; to the spread of the Eight Immortals throughout all levels of Chinese culture during the following Ming period. The lecture will emphasize ceramics, but will also include examples of painting, sculpture, architecture and textiles.

Shawn Eichman is Curator of Asian Art at the Honolulu Museum of Art. Prior to this, Dr. Eichman worked at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Nelson-Atkins Museum and The Art Institute of Chicago. He has a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University, master's degrees from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Waseda University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Dr. Eichman participated in the seminal exhibition Taoism and the Arts of China organized by The Art Institute of Chicago, and was co-author of the exhibition catalogue. Recent projects include Lacquer and Clay: Okinawan Art currently on display, and an upcoming exhibition on the contemporary Chinese landscape painter Li Huayi in 2019.

Come enjoy an evening of intellectual food for thought and celebrate the beginning of a new year!

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2018 Fall – 2019 Spring Programs

Sept. 4 - Dr. Michael Schuster: Lost and Found: Jewish Communities of India; SAAH scholarships awards; EWC Art Gallery

Sept 23 - Zen Buddhist Monk-artist Hetang Kongyi talk& demo 2-3 PM, Moore Hall #112

Oct. 1 - Dr. Shawn Eichman: Daoist Subjects in Ming Ceramics, Linekona Art School Rm101

Oct. 5 - Tour of Liljestrand House, 3 PM

Nov. 5 - Tusha Buntin: The Feel of Heaven - Jades of China and the Pacific,
Linekona Art School Room 101

Dec. Holiday Break

Jan. 7 - Members’ Talk Stories, Linekona, Room 101

Feb. 3 - Chinese New Year Celebration. Prof. Christian Peterson: Jade Pig-Dragon, Hongshan Culture of Liaoning & Inner Mongolia, House of Wong

Mar. 4 - Dr. Greg Pai: Wabi Sabi - Essence of Traditional Japanese Aesthetics,
Linekona Art School Room 101

Apr. 1 - Prof. Ned Bertz (topic TBA), Linekona Room 101

May 4 Annual Meeting (Venue TBA)

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2018 Annual Meeting & Banquet

Date:         Thursday, May 3, 2018
Time:        Registration: 5:30~6:00 PM.  Dinner at 6:30pm. Please arrive on time.
Venue:    Jade Dynasty Restaurant, 3rd Floor, Ala Moana Center
Cost:        $60 ($20 tax deductible). BYOB. The restaurant has a per table corkage charge.         However, SAAH will absorb this fee so please bring your own wine, if desired.

Tentative Menu:
1. shredded chicken and pomelo salad with roasted pine nuts
2. Jade Dynasty minced fish soup
3. honey and garlic ribs
4. braised black mushrooms and Shanghai boy chow
5. “pei par” roasted duck
6. pan-fried noodles with assorted meats and seafood
7. deep fried prawns with salty egg yolk
8. mochi balls
9. goji berry gelatin

Price: $60 per person for members and guests; $20 is tax deductible (cancelled check or credit card charge is your receipt).
Your donation helps fund the Society’s annual scholarships. Reservation deadline: Monday, April 30 (only 70 seats available)

RESERVATION PAYMENT PROCEEDURE

1. mail check, made out to SAAH, Inc., to treasurer

• Carolyn Haik.

Indicate separately your name and the names of any guests for whom you are paying. There is no reserved seating so please come early to claim a table.

2.   pay by check or credit card at the door, night of the banquet.

If you choose the credit card option, you are still required to email Carolyn and state the same information as requested above. This is needed in order to confirm attendance for the restaurant.

• Email: haik.carolyn@gmail.com

Note: all reservations MUST be submitted directly, in advance, to Carolyn in order for us to get an accurate account of persons planning to attend and record payments.

As of April 19 we have about 40 reservations so please make reservations for yourselves and guests as soon as possible.

EVENING'S AGENDA:

a. Welcome Remarks by president, Dr. William Zanella

b. Election: introduction of voting procedures, announcement of candidates for next term (2018-19) and distribution of ballots.

Nominations for all positions are accepted from the floor—president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer.
Board members Roberta Sullivan’s term is expiring and she declines to be re-nominated., and Millie Liu also will not stand for re-election.
Therefore two new Board members need to be elected.

Note: The 2017-18 SAAH officers listed below have all agreed to stand for re-election and this slate will be presented for nomination. Additional candidates are, of course, welcome to be nominated.

c. Dinner, ballot collection and bidding on Silent Auction Items

SILENT AUCTION INSTRUCTIONS - Since we need to plan for auction space and prepare bid sheets, those bringing items are requested to complete the information below for EACH and email this to the president at: kamaaina001@yahoo.com

Donor name:
Contact address, phone, email:
Estimated value of item:
Suggested starting bid amount:
Country of origin:
Item description:
Additional relevant information:

NOTE: to date we have verbal commitments from donors who will bring Items for the auction, however, none have yet submitted  the requested descriptions. Therefore we may not know until the banquet date what specific items will be available for bidding, creating some logistical problems. Therefore please help out by submitting your descriptions ASAP.

Even if you do not submit the above-requested information, PLEASE bring your item(s) to the event and fill out a description/starting bid sheet available that night.

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d. Reports:

Scholarship students, Yuanhsin Tung & Yunshan Feng
Officers: president, vice-president, treasurer
Committee chairs: Scholarship (Zanella, outgoing), Program (Li Lundin), Membership (K.T. Yao, outgoing), Venue (Vivien Stackpole) et al.

e. Announcement of election results

f. New business

g. Auction conclusion—payments, item removal etc.

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Current Directors, Officers & Chairs,  2017-2018

Officers
President: Dr. William Zanella
Vice-President: Dr. James Langworthy
Co-Secretaries: Diedre Lau; Sanna S. Deutsch
Treasurer: Carolyn Haik

Chairs
Venue Co-Chairs: Vivien Stackpole, Darryl Wong
Membership Chair: K.T.Yao, to be replaced by Chi Chen
Program Chair: Li Lundin
Scholarship Committee Chair: William Zanella, to be replaced by Don Hibbard

Board of Directors
Diane Perushek     2017-2020
Don Hibbard         2017-2020
Millie Liu              2017-2018
Roberta Sullivan   2015-2018
Dr. Bill Won         2017-2019

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2015 Annual Meeting/Banquet

Date: Saturday, May 2, 2015
Time: 5:00 P.M. Please arrive on time.
Venue: KCC Ka’Ikena Dining Room (Ohelo Building)
4303 Diamond Head Road, Honolulu, HI 96816 (Please see map)

Cost: $65 per person ($20 tax deductible). BYOB. (Corkage fee included)  Please make your check payable to SAAH and mail to Treasurer Zhou Ning by April 20 at: 1010 S. King Street, #804, Honolulu, HI 96814.

Please let Venue Chair Karl Cheng know before April 20th if you have a special request regarding food, or plan to invite guests or wish to sit with friends. He can be reached by email at karlscheng33@yahoo.com.

Menu: Entrees: Chinese Style Steamed Snapper with Ginger Sauce;
Chicken Marsala; Eggplant Parmesan;
Salads: Hawaiian Caesar Salad; Nitsuke Salmon Tofu Salad;
Veggies: Sauteed or steamed seasonal vegetables;
Starches: Japanese Style Vegetable Rice; Roasted Potato Medley;
Desserts: Fresh Hawaiian Fruit Platter; Haupia Bread Pudding,
Iced Tea, Coffee, Decaffeinated Coffee, Hot Tea and Water

Please invite your friends and help make this a successful fund-raiser for the SAAH scholarships this coming 2015- 2016 season!
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Number of people attending_______x $65.00 pp = $________________(check payable to SAAH)

Your name, names of guests and/or other comments:

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I,_____________________, am unable to attend, but wish to donate $_____________(payable to SAAH) for the Scholarship Fund.

PROGRAM:

5:00 – 5:30 Registration
5:30 – 5:45 Presided by outgoing director Millie Liu - Introduction of Annual Meeting, Candidates for next term and Distribution of Ballots.
5:45 – 7:00 Dinner and collection of ballots.
7:00 – 8:00 Scholarship recipients’ presentations
Business Meeting:
Treasurer’s Report
Chairs Reports: Membership; Program; Venue
Announcement of New Officers
Remarks by incoming president and vice president.
8:00 – 9:00 Clean up.

NOMINATIONS FOR 2015-2016 SEASON:

Officers:
President: Li Lundin
Vice President: Dr. William Won
Secretary: Susan Burghardt
Treasurer: Leona Hee
New Directors:
Roberta Sullivan, William Zanella, Darryl Wong 2015-2018

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The 7th Meeting of the 2014-2015 Season

Date: Monday, April 6, 2015
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: The Honolulu Museum of Art School (Formerly Linekona)
1111 Victoria St, Honolulu, HI 96814
Parking available behind the art school

The Program: A Heritage of Ruins: The Ancient Sites of Southeast Asia and Their Conservation
Guest Speaker: Dr. William Chapman, Professor of Preservation and American Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa

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