JASA: Japanese Art Society of America
The Japanese Art Society of America offers lectures and discussions by eminent figures in the world of Japanese art and culture, covering a wide range of topics. Members are able to go “behind the scenes” to visit museum storage areas, private collections and leading galleries.
JASA communicates with an increasing national and international audience through its newsletter and its annual journal Impressions, recipient of the 2009 Donald Keene Prize for the Promotion of Japanese Culture, awarded by the Donald Keene Center, Columbia University. Both publications are free to paying members.
JASA also sponsors important exhibitions, such as Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680–1860, shown at Asia Society in New York City, Spring 2008.
Japan’s Manga Revolution: From Painted Scrolls to Comic Books (Lecture by Dr. Andreas Marks)
Exploring the Art of Manga (Dr. Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere)
Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road (Dr. Alfred Haft)
In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan (Lecture by Alicia Volk)
The Three Perfections: Japanese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting (Lecture by John T. Carpenter)
Pictures of a Changing Japan: The Evolution of Shin Hanga (Fiona Collins-Rosedahl)
Birds, Diplomacy and Painting in 16th-Century Japan (Dr. Matthew McKelway)
Meiji Kabuki: Japanese Theatre Through Foreign Eyes (Dr. Samuel Leiter)
Contemporary Japanese Metalwork from the Shirley Z. Johnson Collection (Lecture by Dr. Sol Jung)
New Horizons for Japanese Art at the Princeton University Art Museum (Dr. Kit Brooks)
An Introduction to Bunraku: The Puppet Theater of Japan (Dr. Claudia Orenstein)
Pigments of the Imagination: Woodblock Prints by Paul Binnie
Exceptional Japanese Houses: Residential Design From 1945 to the Present (Naomi Pollock)
Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (Dr. Andreas Marks)
Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo
When Zen Becomes Political: Zen and Soft/Hard Power (Dr. Frank Feltens)
Anxiety and Hope in Japanese Art: An Exhibition Talk with Dr. Aaron Rio
Seeing the Trees: Ecology and Imagination in Japanese Art (Dr. Rachel Saunders)
Introduction to The Montgomery Collection: Jeffrey Montgomery in Conversation with Luigi Zeni
Lecture: The Material Culture of Noh (Dr Thomas Hare)
Lecture: Philadelphia Museum of Art Japanese Collections (Felice Fischer and Xiaojin Wu)
Art Across Borders: Japanese Artists in the United States (Lecture by Dr. Ramona Handel-Bajema)
The Five Directions: Lacquer Through East Asia (Dr. Einor K. Cervone)
Lecture: Clay as Soft Power: The Rise of Shigaraki Ware in Postwar America (Dr. Natsu Oyobe)
Industry and Institutions: Woodblock Prints and the Meiji Cultural Imagination (Alison J. Miller)
Postwar Japanese Photography from 1945–1980 (Dr. Maggie Mustard)
Kimono Style (Lecture by Dr. Monika Bincsik)
Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists