Our November monthly meeting is a joint dinner/program co-sponsored with the China Society of Southern California. It features Michelle Bailey, Assistant Curator, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Her talk will center on the current exhibit entitled “Paintings in Print: Studying Art in China”. it will be on Monday, November 6, 2023. The dinner and program are at the Golden Dragon in Chinatown. Dinner starts at 6:00pm and the program is at 7:00pm. Buy your tickets, $40/person, at https://chssc.org/event/paintings-in-print/.

Description of the Exhibit at Huntington Library

In the 16th century, Chinese publishers began creating educational manuals filled with colorful prints of paintings and texts on the history and methods of brush arts. The manuals were unprecedented because they taught aspiring painters and collectors from the growing merchant class how to create and appreciate literati art—a combination of painting, calligraphy, and poetry long practiced by elite scholars. This exhibition at The Huntington, which runs from October 7, 2023 to May 27, 2024, explores the ways these manuals used innovative printing methods to introduce the techniques, history, and appreciation of painting to widening audiences in early modern China.

About Michelle Bailey

As assistant curator for the Center for East Asian Studies, Michelle assists with interpretation of the Chinese and Japanese Gardens, exhibition planning, and educational programming. Prior to joining The Huntington, she served as curatorial assistant for Chinese and Korean art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 2000 to 2010. She received her M.A. in Art History from the University of California, Riverside, and B.A. in International Relations from the University of Redlands.