East of the Pacific: Making Histories of Asian American Art explores how the migration of people across the Pacific Ocean, from Asia to the United States, has profoundly shaped our nation’s cultural and artistic landscape. Drawing primarily from the collection of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, the exhibition features ceramics, drawings, paintings, photographs, and prints by more than thirty Asian American artists, including Ruth Asawa, Bernice Bing, Dong Kingman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Chiura Obata, Roger Shimomura, and Toshiko Takaezu.
Work on the exhibition included layout, casework design, graphic identity, and interpretive activity station.
This exhibition is organized by the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University as part of the museum's Asian American Art Initiative and curated by Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander, Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Co-Director of the Asian American Art Initiative.
The presentation at the Columbus Museum of Art is organized by Molly K. Eckel, Shackelford Family Assistant Curator of American Art, with Grace Tran, Art Bridges Fellow.
Photography by: Luke Stettner