AntingAnting Project Convening

Celebrating Culture with Sensitivity: Community Partner Conversation
With Alleluia Panis, AAM Curator Natasha Reichle, Deborah Clearwaters, and special guests.

Saturday, March 25, 2023
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin Street, SF

AntingAnting Project Convening is a partnership with KULARTS, Asian Art Museum’s Re-History Project, and Margaret Jenkins Dance Company’s Encounters Over 60

This convening is part of the Panis’ AntingAnting Project, in part, a response to the current ethical discourse on museums' responsibility to repatriate objects acquired through colonization, war, or theft in an effort to correct history. In this discussion and community workshop, participants will learn about museum practices and share their opinions and emotions around artworks at the Asian Art Museum. Panis hopes for Bay Area Asian communities to share their thoughts and views on sacred and ritual items as museum exhibits of beauty and interest but stripped of their original intent. She will share aspects of her artistic process including a conversation with museum staff, curator Natasha Reichle and educator Deborah Clearwaters on our work together to examine and discuss the complexities of having objects of worship, ritual, and ceremonies in the museum. We'll also respond to the question of how a community artist can be a catalyst for change within a major San Francisco arts institution.

Participants will be invited to respond to specific questions and have an open discussion.

• How should the museum exhibit sacred and ritual items?

• How can we honor AAM’s collection of sacred and ritual objects?

• How can the museum correct the history of acquiring objects through colonization, war and theft?

The convening will inform the outcome of Panis’ commissioned work Anting Anting Project.
*Anting-anting is the Tagalog word for sacred power/energies in objects, places or persons