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Event Archive
November 19, 2023
Still Making Waves: Charles Lang Freer and Sotatsu’s Waves at Matsushima
This programming honors the Detroit origins of the Freer Gallery of Art, National Museum of Asian Art on its centennial. This program will also highlights the Canon Tsuzuri Project, a Cultural Heritage Inheritance Project.
Frank Feltens, PhD, Curator of Japanese Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution Lecture: Sunday, November 19, 2:00 pm at the Detroit Institute of Arts
VIP Reception: Sunday, November 19, 3:30 pm at WSU, Freer House
This programming honors the Detroit origins of the Freer Gallery of Art, National Museum of Asian Art on its centennial.
Co-hosted by:
Japan America Society of Michigan and Southwestern Ontario
Freer House/Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute/Wayne State University
Friends of Asian Arts & Cultures, Detroit Institute of Arts
Edo Avant Garde
Film Viewing and Q&A with Filmmaker and Producer: Linda Hoaglund
Loaction: Detroit Film Theater, DIA
Moderators:
Elliot Wilhelm, Curator of Film, Detroit Film Theater
Katherine Kasdorf, Associate Curator of the Arts of Asia and the Islamic World, Detroit Institute of Arts
October 19, 2023
Seven Samurai
Film Viewing at Detroit Film Theater, Detroit Institute of Arts
October 20, 2023
Edo Avant Garde
K-12 Educators' Workshop at Detroit Institute of Arts
Presenter: Linda Hoaglund, Filmmaker and Producer
October 21, 2023
Charles Lang Freer, Chinese Art, and the Making of Global Detroit
Presenter: Dr. Ian Shin, Assistant Professor of History and American Culture, University of Michigan
Moderator: Katherine Kasdorf, PhD, Associate Curator, Arts of Asia and the Islamic World, Detroit Institute of Arts
March 23, 2023
Women of Ferry Street: Then and Now
December 8, 2022
Catherine Daligga, PhD, Independent Scholar and Activist
Cathy Selvius De Roo, PhD, Conservation Scientist, Detroit Institute of Arts
Yuriko Kuchiki, Author and Journalist
Anna O. Marley, PhD, Curator of Historical American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Yukio Lippit, PhD, Professor, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
In Attendance to the Realm Luncheon Program
and his Collection of Chinese Art
David Hogge, Head of Archives,Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian
Daisy Yiyou Wang, PhD, curator of Chinese and East Asian Art,Peabody Essex Museum
Debra Diamond, Phd,Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian
Jeffrey A. Cohen, PhD, Architectural Historian, Senior Lecturer and Chair, Growth of Cities Department,
Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, PA
Louise Allison Cort, Curator for Ceramics
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Carole McNamara, Senior Curator of Western Art,
University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)
A benefit concert event announcing the Freer House "Whistler Gallery" Restoration Project. The remarkable relationship of the famous American artist, James McNeill Whistler, and the Detroit industrialist and art collector, Charles Lang Freer, will be the focus of this special concert event.
Anna Wieck, PhD Candidate, History of Art, University of Michigan
Mei-Chen Pan, PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
Sarah Conrad, PhD Candidate, American Culture, University of Michigan
Ann Yonemura, PhD, Senior Associate Curator of Japanese Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian
Thomas W. Brunk, PhD, Indepent Art and Architecture Historian
A recreation of the historic first concert held at the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. on February 7, 1924 by the Library of Congress. Chamber music of diverse composers performed by the Scarab Club String Quartet.
Freer House Benefit Concert Program
Linda Merrill, PhD, Visiting Professor of Art History, Emory University Whistler scholar,
former Curator of American Art, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian
Dr. Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Dr. Ann C. Gunter, Professor, Northwestern University
Former Curator of Ancient Near Eastern Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian
Dr. Kenneth John Myers, Curator of American Art and Head of the Department of American Art,
Detroit Institute of Arts
Lee Glazer, Ph.D., Curator of American Art, Freer Gallery of Art Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian
Surface Beauty Presentation