Talk at the Denver Art Museum - Made in China: Islamic Art for Chinese Muslims

Tue Jul 26 2022 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

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Talk at the Denver Art Museum - Made in China: Islamic Art for Chinese Muslims
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Join us for this talk with Qamar Adamjee, a lecturer at Rutgers University, New Jersey and a former curator of Islamic and Indian art at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, where she will share her findings on a new research subject that explores objects made in China for local Muslim users.
Learn more and reserve your ticket here: https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/calendar/made-china-islamic-art-chinese-muslims
Qamar Adamjee is a lecturer at Rutgers University, New Jersey and a former curator of Islamic and Indian art at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Adamjee's research interests revolve around artworks produced in the interstices of cultural traditions and in the artistic and intellectual worlds of the people who made or used them. She has organized exhibitions and published on a range of subjects and artistic mediums, including Islamic, Hindu and Sikh art; Indian paintings and sculpture; 19th-century photography, painting, and prints.
Image: "Tripod Incense Burner with the Shahada," late 1700s. Cloisonné enamel on copper. Partial gift of Farrokh Faripour and museum purchase with funds from Bj Averitt and Mr. and Mrs. Todger Anderson, 1989.22.
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Denver Art Museum, 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, United States

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