Voices: Art Linking Asia and the West
December 4, 2018–December 21, 2019
This exhibition is part of the Beach Museum of Art’s yearlong program Silk Road through Kansas. 
A section of the permanent collection galleries will highlight the exchange of aesthetics and ideas between East and West through objects made by artists who traveled between the two regions. This project is a collaboration between curator Aileen June Wang and University of Kansas art history professors Sherry Fowler and Maki Kaneko. Area museums are participating in “Silk Road through Kansas” with similarly themed exhibitions! Check the websites of the following museums for dates and details: Spencer Museum of Art, Mulvane Art Museum, Ulrich Museum of Art.
Top image: Imari Charger (Dutch Merchants and Ship), 19th century,
porcelain, 2 x 16 in., bequest of John H. Kohn, 1989.38
Bottom image: Roger Y. Shimomura, Martin Cheng: Painter and Fisherman, from Return of the Yellow Peril, 1991, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 in, Friends of the Beach Museum of Art purchase, 2002.480