Painter Gary Woo -- Oct 19 Talk By Yolanda Garfias Woo

Chinese Historical Society of America Museum & Learning Center 965 Clay Street • San Francisco, CA 94108 chsa.org | CivilRightsSuite.org

Come celebrate the life and work of the groundbreaking painter Gary Woo!

October 8—December 7, 2008 A Meeting of Two Souls: a special ofrenda for Gary Woo by Yolanda Garfias Woo at the Oakland Museum of California Días de los Muertos exhibition 1000 Oak Street at 10th St., Oakland, CA 94607 (one block from BART Lake Merritt station) Sunday October 19, 2008 2pm Gallery Talk Join Yolanda Garfias Woo as she shares about the deep connections between Chinese and Mexican traditional cultures, shown in her ofrenda for her husband, the painter Gary Woo. 3pm Illustrated Talk and Booksigning for A Meeting of Two Souls: A Tribute to Gary Woo, A Painter’s Painter by Yolanda Garfias Cultural Equity Grants of the San Francisco Arts Commission

Woo (San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America with Oakland Museum of California and City Lights Foundation, 2008) Gary Woo’s work featured in the new exhibition, Asian/American/Modern Art October 25—January 18, 2009 de Young Museum, San Francisco February 18—August 23, 2009 Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, New York In the new catalogs: Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900–1970 (University of California Press and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2008) and Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 (Stanford University Press, 2008)

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