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11/01/2026

Open Call: Lunar New Year Arts Festival 2027

🎨 AAPI artists, we want to see what you’re working on! 🐐

We’re looking for Maryland-based AAPI visual artists to be part of NAAAP Baltimore’s 2027 Lunar New Year Arts Festival, in partnership with Towson University’s Asian Arts & Culture Center.

We’re accepting original 2-D and video artwork inspired by:

🐑 The Year of the Sheep, Goat, or Ram

🤝 Community, culture, connection, and belonging

🌿 The natural world

Selected artists will have their work featured at the Vollmer Center at Cylburn Arboretum from January 24 to February 7, 2027. Artists can also sell their work through the gallery and participate in the Artists Market on February 7.

📅 Application deadline: December 1, 2026

Maryland-based AAPI artists ages 18+ who live, work, or attend school in Maryland are eligible to apply.

🔗 Read the full call for artists: https://tinyurl.com/reqlny2027

Submit your application: https://tinyurl.com/LNYRFArtists

Know an artist who should apply? Send this their way!

10/30/2026

Any guesses to what is being depicted or expressed here?

Mountain I and II are ceramic sculptures made by Myungsook Ryu Kim. Inspired by murals from Korea's Goguryeo period (37 BC - 668 AD), these works express symbolic and complex ancient history.

These, and several other sculptures are currently on view in Encounter, AA&CC's fall 2026 exhibition. After you check out our main gallery, be sure to walk down the corridor right beside the Asian Arts Gallery to see vitrines filled with even more of Kim's work. It's where you'll find this piece!

Our gallery is open from 11am-4pm Monday through Saturday through December 12 (closed Nov. 25 – 29).

Images: Views of Mountain I and II, 2015 by Myungsook Ryu Kim.

10/28/2026

AA&CC is a proud partner of Goucher Art Galleries' Right and Wrong Undone, a solo exhibition by artist Xin Ni at the Bond Gallery, Goucher College.

Through a dynamic installation of brightly colored, translucent forms inspired by Chinese funerary traditions, Ni explores how what may carry recognizable cultural associations in one setting becomes strange, decorative, playful, or illegible in another. Suspended from the ceiling, they transform the gallery into a shifting environment of color, transparency, and light.

The exhibition opens with a live, improvised performance by Xin Ni, in collaboration with Japanese Shakuhachi player Hideo Rakudou. Through movement, sound, and the architecture of the gallery, the performance explores the tensions between visibility and exposure, familiarity and strangeness, and translation and misinterpretation.

📅 Exhibition Dates: November 5, 2026 – January 22, 2027
📍 Location: Bond Gallery, Goucher College
1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Baltimore, MD 21204

🎭 Opening Reception & Performance
Thursday, November 5 | 4–8 PM
Live performance featuring Xin Ni and Hideo Rakudou at 7 PM

10/26/2026

10/23/2026

What are your unique Thanksgiving stories and traditions? Do they differ from the typical turkey and mashed potatoes?

Come celebrate Thanksgiving and share with us on Thursday, November 19, from 6pm-8pm, at the TU Center for the Arts Atrium.

10/23/2026

Do these round white vessels remind you of anything? Do you think they resemble the moon?

These pots, created by Myungsook Ryu Kim, are inspired by a beloved Korean ceramic tradition: In the late 17th century, anonymous potters at the Bunwon kilns near Seoul crafted nearly spherical jars with a milky color glaze. They acquired the nickname, “moon jars,” in the 1950s.

Visit the Asian Arts Gallery to see Kim's contemporary twist on Korean moon jars and many other works that combine Korean culture with contemporary art techniques.

Our gallery is open from 11am-4pm Monday through Saturday through December 12 (closed Oct. 23 and Nov. 25 – 29).

Image: Detail of Thousand Rivers Moon Jars, 2017 by Myungsook Ryu Kim.

10/19/2026

AA&CC is proud to present Asian arts and culture at the Great Baltimore Lantern Parade & Festival: Cambodian, Indian, and Japanese cultural processions.

Visit AA&CC’s tent before the parade to make Japanese Obon lanterns between 4 and 7pm. The parade begins at 7pm!

DATE: Saturday, October 24 (Rain date: Sunday, October 25).

PLACE: Patterson Park

DETAILS: https://creativealliance.org/events/signature-the-great-halloween-lantern-parade/

See you there!

10/15/2026

This photograph shows Master Chum Ngek teaching a TU student how to play the kong thom, a semi-circle of sixteen low-pitched gongs. Kong thom is an important instrument in the Cambodian classical music ensemble known as pin peat. It works in tandem with the roneat aik, a high-pitched, wooden xylophone with twenty-one bars, as an ensemble leader.

Come listen to Master Chum’s Fall 2026 TU ensemble on November 23, and discover how all the pin peat instruments blend together to create an enchanting and meditative percussive soundscape.

📍 TU Center for the Arts, Kaplan Concert Hall
📅 Monday, November 23
🕕 6 PM
🎟️ Free event!

10/12/2026

Step into the Asian Arts Gallery and discover innovative fusions of East Asian and contemporary aesthetics, philosophy, and culture.

Works that celebrate nature, evoke memories and dreams, and incorporate symbols that resemble ancient pictographs invite you to slow down, look closer, and make connections across cultures, time, and traditions.

Our gallery is open from 11am-4pm Monday through Saturday through December 12 (closed Oct. 23 and Nov. 25 – 29). See you there!

10/08/2026

Come celebrate, eat, share, and connect with our community. Whether your favorite Thanksgiving dish is a family recipe, a cultural tradition, or something completely unexpected—we want to hear your story!

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7703 Osler Drive
Towson, MD
21252

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Monday	11am - 4pm
Tuesday	11am - 4pm
Wednesday	11am - 4pm
Thursday	11am - 4pm
Friday	11am - 4pm
Saturday	11am - 4pm

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+14107042807

Website

http://www.towson.edu/asianarts/

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