Educator Virtual Curator Talk: “奪天工 Growing and Knowing” with Phillip Bloom

Join us for a virtual talk about the exhibition “Growing and Knowing in the Gardens of China” with curator Phillip Bloom. Journey back in time to the Ming and Qing dynasties and discover how gardens were transformative spaces intended to delight, nourish, and inspire.

Talk Schedule

4:30 p.m. Program begins
4:35 p.m. Talk by Phillip Bloom
5:05 p.m. Classroom connections with Education staff
5:15 p.m. Q&A
5:25 p.m. Wrap-up

About the Speaker

Phillip E. Bloom is the June and Simon K.C. Li Curator of the Chinese Garden and Director of the Center for East Asian Garden Studies. He seeks to shape the Chinese Garden’s intellectual and cultural life by interpreting it through tours, lectures, and exhibitions and by enlivening it with public programs, concerts, and an annual artist’s residency. Bloom is a specialist in the history of gardens, designed landscapes, and Buddhist art and ritual of China’s Song dynasty (960–1279). He received his Ph.D. in Chinese art history from Harvard University in 2013. Prior to joining The Huntington in 2017, he served as assistant professor of East Asian art history at Indiana University Bloomington and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Tokyo.

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