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Join Huntington Library curators and members of the trade, library, and collecting communities for a panel discussion on individual and institutional collecting today. Moderated by Claudia Funke and Erin Chase—curators of the Huntington exhibition “What Now: Collecting for the Library in the 21st Century”—the conversation will address the significance of collecting in this unprecedented period and include perspectives from the Huntington, greater Los Angeles, and beyond.

Moderators
Claudia Funke, Avery Chief Curator and Associate Director of Library Collections, The Huntington
Erin Chase, Assistant Curator of Architecture and Photography, The Huntington

Panelists
Brad Johnson, Johnson Rare Books & Archives, and President, Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA)
Todd Lerew, Director of Special Projects, Library Foundation of Los Angeles (LFLA), and curator of the Los Angeles Public Library exhibition “21 Collections: Every Object Has a Story”
Miroslava Chávez-García, Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Huntington donor
Nancy Rosin, President Emerita, Ephemera Society of America, and collector, The Nancy and Henry Rosin Collection of Valentine, Friendship, and Devotional Ephemera at The Huntington
Joel Klein, Molina Curator for the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, The Huntington
Li Wei Yang, Curator of Pacific Rim Collections, The Huntington

This event is presented in partnership with the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America and the Library Foundation of Los Angeles as part of Virtual Bibliography Week.

Dr. Einor Cervone, the Mozhai Foundation Curatorial Fellow in the department of Chinese art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), explores the unlikely links between Ming dynasty (1368–1644) garden culture and waterborne culture. The talk showcases how refined activities like painting, calligraphy, and music were transformed when relocated to the waterscape.

Join Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, Made in L.A. 2020 assistant curator of performance, for this short and insightful discussion about artist Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, as part of the Lunchtime Art Talk series on the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.” The program is presented by the Hammer Museum.

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