September 20, 2025
Between August 20 and December 14, 2025, visitors to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive have the opportunity to learn from a new Teaching Wall exhibition put together by the Berkeley-Stanford Transpacific Asian American Art Histories Working Group. Titled Panther Meadows and Dangerous Worlds, the exhibition brings together works on paper by Asian American artists in the BAMPFA collection that explore different perceptions of the natural world: from direct observation of local landscapes, to translations of embodied experiences, meditations on how nature marks history and memory, and intersections between spiritual and natural worlds. The title references both Panther Meadows, the storied California site near Mt. Shasta that inspired Isho’s sketches (featured in the exhibition), and the surreal terrain of Rina Banerjee’s print (also featured). Participating members of the Berkeley–Stanford Transpacific/Asian American Art Histories Working Group include History of Art PhD students Elizabeth Fair, Piper Prolago, and Kimberly Yu, as well as Diane Ahn, Lena Chen, Claire Chun, Delaney Holton, and David Pham.