Deputy Director & Chief Curator
Departments: Director's Office and Asian Art
Current MIA Projects
Shinhuaga from the Wells Collection for exhibition opening in the Fall of 2013
Education
MA and PhD, University of Kansas;
BA, Trinity University in San Antonio
Background/Work History
Minneapolis Institute of Arts since 1990
Specialty/Area of Interest
Japanese and Korean art with particular emphasis on Edo period painting and Zen painting
Honors and Professional Associations
- Arts Dialog Committee, CULCON (United States-Japan Conference on Cultural & Educational Interchange)
- Association of Art Museum Curators
- Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Research Fellow, 1987
Selected Exhibitions and Projects
- “Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints,” October 30, 2011 through January 8, 2012
- “Untamed Beauty: Tigers in Japanese Art,” 2005
- “Sumptuous and Sublime: Two Japanese Rooms,” 2001
- “A Japanese Legacy: Four Generations of Yoshida Family Artists,” 2001
- “The Tokaido Road: Ando Hiroshige and Gus Foster,” 1998
- “Netsuke: The Japanese Art of Miniature Carving,” 1998
- “First Fire: Richard Bresnahan & New Pottery from Saint John’s,” 1996
- “Otsu-e: Japanese Folk Painting from the Collection of Harriet and Edson Spencer,” 1994
Publications
- Worldly Pleasures, Earthly Delights: Japanese Prints from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2011)
- Stoked: Five Artists of Fire and Clay (Liturgical Press, 2010)
- Untamed Beauty: Tigers in Japanese Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2005)
- “Looking to the West: The Meiji Era and Yoshida Kasaburo,” in A Japanese Legacy: Four Generations of Yoshida Family Artists (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2002)
- Body of Clay, Soul of Fire: Richard Bresnahan and the Saint John’s Pottery (Afton Historical Society Press, 2001)
- Netsuke: The Japanese Art of Miniature Carving (Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Art Media Inc., 1998)
February, 2013
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