UACA Friends Society

From the Director: Welcome Back!

Dear Members & Friends,

I hope that you have all enjoyed a happy and healthy summer! As you can see we have a series of exciting events in store for you for the new season. We are also happy to welcome the new Dean of the College of Fine Arts & Communication, Susan Picinich. I am previliged to working with Dean Picinich, whose inspired vision and dedication to the arts will be wonderful for the future of the Center.

Marking the 40th Anniversary of the Center, we have made a focus shift of our programs from introducing artists of Asian background and how they respond and adopt the new ideas and new expressions in the West while still keeping their traditions, to recognizing non-Asian artists and how they connect with their experiences of Asia in their creations. In this new perspective, we have planned an "Asian Connection Series" starting with the exhibition of "Art in a Global Age," followed by Scott Prairie and his music group, A Moving Sound, Tim Hoffman and Asian Classical Crossover, Elaine Hamilton's exhibition of Unbound Energy and Color, and culminates in an extraordinary exhibition featuring Iona Rozeal Brown in the Spring. I am sure you would be fascinated by their inspired syntheses of East and West.

Please join us in the celebration of each memorable cultural connection that brings the world closer together.

Suewhei Shieh

Director

THANK YOU

Opening of Art in a Global Age 9/10/2011

Thanks to our members who have renewed their support for 2012 and to all who have contributed to the Gilbert A. Brungardt Endowment Fund. Your continued support allows us to fulfill our mission and bring traditional and contemporary Asian arts, music, dance, and philosophy to the community.

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