The Annual Terry Smith Lecture in Contemporary Art: Marci Kwon, Making San Francisco Chinatown

The Annual Terry Smith Lecture in Contemporary Art  honors the namesake emeritus professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Museum of Art advisory board member, and advances the critical mission of art history to generate a healthy discourse in the contemporary moment.

This year’s lecturer, Marci Kwon, is an award-winning art historian, writer, and teacher. Kwon will present a lecture titled Making San Francisco Chinatown. Her work explores alterity, minorness, value, and the ethics of relation in art and material culture, with a special focus on the history of Asian American/diasporic artists and makers.  She is Assistant Professor of Art History at Stanford University, and co-director of the university’s Asian American Art Initiative.