Events
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Start: 5:00 pm
We begin this midsummer evening with a lively discussion of early (pre-1970s) Asian American artists living and working in the Seattle area, featuring a noted historian, artists, and critics. Stanford University professor Gordon H. Chang, with Mark Johnson and Paul Karlstrom, has edited and contributed to Asian American Art: A History (1850 - 1970) (Stanford University Press). This is the first comprehensive study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian ancestry active in the United States before 1970, and it features original essays by ten leading scholars, biographies of more than 150 artists, and over 400 reproductions of artwork. Here with Dr. Chang are Seattle writer Kazuko Nakane, author of a chapter on Seattle's Asian American artists (and, most recently, Nothing Left on My Hands) and a special appearance by renowned Seattle-born artist Roger Shimomura. Seattle writer/artist Alan Chong Lau will provide introductory remarks and moderate the discussion.
Start: 8:00 pm
Here from Portland is Robin Cody, long one of the Northwest's finest writers and one of its most acute observers. He is the author two time-tested books—Ricochet River and Voyage of a Summer Sun—that have both been selected for the Oregon State Library's "150 Oregon Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial." And, Robin Cody is here this evening with a collection of essay pieces, Another Way the River Has: Taut True Tales from the Northwest (Oregon State University Press). "Robin Cody populates his wonderful essays with compelling Northwest characters so vigorous and colorful they might have stepped from the pages of a Kesey novel. Powerful rivers surge through these pages, too, honoring the people who fathom their depths ... This collection illustrates that the most unforgettable character proves to be Cody himself—empathetic, clear-eyed, humorous. This remarkable Northwest book is a rare gift—worth owning and sharing." - Craig Lesley.
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