Upper Category Member Events
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Upper Category Member Events
Each year, the Upper Category Member Events Committee brings together a roster of special events for SAA members in the Contributor, Donor and Sponsor levels.
In 2023, we organized a variety of special events, including a virtual studio visit with artist Ala Ebtekar; a Society Conversation in a private home with LACMA Curator and Head of Art of the Middle East, Linda Komaroff; a Sponsor member event in a private home with the Asian Art Museum’s Barbara Bass Bakar Director and CEO, Jay Xu; a Sponsor and Donor member event at Iwasawa Oriental Art on the art of incense and calligraphy; a special viewing of Out of Place at ICA SF with artist Rupy Tut; a Sponsor member event on East Asian water droppers with SAA President Marsha Vargas Handley; and a Society Conversation in a private home with former Asian Art Museum curator Qamar Adamjee.
If you are not yet an Upper Category member, we invite your participation. Please contact the SAA Office Manager to upgrade your membership, or join as an Upper Category member.
Upcoming Upper Category Member Events
Check back soon for other upcoming Upper Category member events that are being planned. Thank you.
Society Conversation with Suzanne Lecht
Date: Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Place: Private residence in Mill Valley
Fee: $20 per person Society Upper Category members & guests
Advance registration must be received by SAA by Aug. 3, 2024.
Upper Category members will be invited to join a Society Conversation with Suzanne Lecht, a favorite SAA speaker, who is the founder and owner of the famous Art Vietnam Gallery in Hanoi. Suzanne will talk about favorite works in her collection and also about upcoming shows she’ll be curating in both Hanoi and the U.S.
Participants in the SAA’s 2023 Indochina trip will have a special interest in meeting Suzanne since they visited the stunning ethnic minority White Thai traditional house (formerly on stilts) that she brought down from Mai Chau, a White Thai village in the mountains of Vietnam with the help of her artist friend, Pham Quang Vinh. Vinh is one of the Gang of Five artists whose works compelled Suzanne to move to Hanoi in 1994. Suzanne currently lives in this house which has been adapted to showcase the contemporary Vietnamese art she collects while also functioning as a cultural salon for art-related events.
An email invitation with a registration link will be sent to Upper Category members in mid July. The exact address will be provided to registered attendees approximately one week before the event. Light refreshments will be served.
