First Saturday PDX and Northwest China Council ​are pleased to co-sponsor a visit to the Betty and John Soreng Gallery of Chinese Art in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR.

We will tour the exhibition "Collecting Stories - Chinese Art Through the Historian's Lens" with Anne Rose Kitagawa, Chief Curator of Collections & Asian Art and Director of Academic Programs, and Ina Asim, Associate Professor of History.

The exhibition is the result of the Spring 2024 History through Chinese Art and Material Culture course taught by Professor Asim in which undergraduate students focused on artworks from the museum’s permanent collection as primary research materials to study social history, art symbolism, technological innovation, and the history of collecting. Each object tells multi-layered stories, reflecting the passions of its makers and subsequent generations of admirers. Selected ceramics, metalwork, sculpture, paintings, and textiles ranging in date from the fifth millennium BCE through the present are on view with explanations based on students’ original research.