Lectures

Join us for lectures from artists, experts, and other compelling voices on wide-ranging topics. Check back for upcoming events and purchase tickets online.

From Fuji to Rainier: Pacific Northwest Artists and the Legacy of Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints

Thursday, April 23rd, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

This talk explores ukiyo-e woodblock prints from Japan’s Edo period (1603-1868) and considers their significance for avant-garde artists within the broader phenomenon of Japonisme in Europe and the United States from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. Presented in conjunction with Cascadia Art Museum’s Influences: Japanese Prints and Northwest Art, this lecture provides historical perspective on the print artists featured in the exhibition.

About the Speaker

Carl Gellert is an art historian based in Seattle who specializes in Japanese art and archaeology. Since receiving his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018, Carl has taught courses in art history and museology at Western Washington University and Seattle Central College. Beyond the classroom, he has worked with museums and arts and culture nonprofits throughout the region, including as Director of Education at the Bellevue Arts Museum.

Image Credit:

  • Hiroshige Andō (1797-1858), No. 14, Famous Places of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (GojūSanTsugi-MeishoZu’e). Hara. Color woodblock print. Mt. Fuji and Mt. Ashitaka from Hara, 1855 (late 20th century printing) 

Cascadia’s Curator Presents at

Smithsonian American Art Museum

David Martin, curator at Cascadia, discussed his work recovering histories of Asian American Artists of the Pacific Northwest as part of a panel discussion at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) on March 14, 2025. The program, Rediscovering Asian American Art Panel Conversation, brought together three scholars who have worked to illuminate the contributions of twentieth-century Asian American artists.

More About David Martin
Martin is the leading authority on early Washington state art and artists. Many of the artists he has chosen to highlight are women, Japanese and Chinese Americans, gay, lesbian and other minorities who had established national and international reputations during the period 1890-1960.

Rediscovering Asian American Art Panel Conversation video courtesy of Smithsonian American Art Museum (March 14, 2025)