2009 - MICHIGAN ORIENTAL ART SOCIETY - Our 38th Year
Sunday, February 1, 2009 • 1:30 pm
SITE: St. Johns Hospital – Oakland: Education Center
27351 Dequindre Rd; Madison Heights
North of 11 Mile Rd (across from Target store)
Conveniently located North of I-696 and East of I-75
Meeting Information: Patricia Beer @ 586-558- 9767
An Illustrated Lecture with Asian art images
2009 Celebrating
Year of the Ox (4706)
with Amelia Kit-Yiu Chau
Assistant Curator of Asian Art
Detroit Institute of Arts
Born in Hong Kong, Amelia attended college in California, where her family currently lives. She holds an undergraduate degree in Business: Marketing from Santa Clara University, and an MA in History of Art from the University of California, Riverside, where her thesis examined 20th-century Chinese painting in the context of traditional Chinese and Modern European painting theories.
Since arriving in Detroit in the summer of 1996, Amelia has helped install a number of rotations in the Asian galleries, including "Harbinger of Spring: The Flowering Cherry and Plum" in 1998, "Valor and Grace: Personal Artifacts from the World of the Samurai Warrior" in 1999, and "Points of Departure: Traditional and Contemporary Asian Art" in 2001. Amelia is currently working on the full reinstallation of the Asian collection in the expanded, renovated and technically upgraded Detroit Institute of Arts. Amelia was the organizing co-curator of the strikingly beautiful photographic exhibition “Kenro Izu: Sacred Places,” on display at the DIA in 2008.
Special Note: We will be collecting 2009 dues at this meeting, payment by check
preferred, please complete and submit 2009 form with your payment to assure proper credit. Members are encouraged to bring Asian artifacts depicting the OX to show and share.
People born in the Year of the Ox: A leader, are bright, cheerful and patient, speak little, and inspire confidence in others. They tend, however, to be eccentric, and bigoted, and they anger easily. They have fierce tempers and although they speak little, when they do they are quite eloquent. Ox people are mentally and physically alert. Generally easy-going, they can be remarkably stubborn, and they hate to fail or be opposed. They are most compatible with Snake, Rooster, and Rat people.
Guests Welcome
Note: Woodblock print exhibit at U of M-Dearborn thru March 6.
Next meeting: Sunday, March 1, 2009 - A documentary of the 16th and 17th Century Japan.
“Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire”
