Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, 11 miles (18 km) northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is the most populous city and the primary cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. Old Pasadena is the city's original commercial district.
ArtCenter College of Design is a private art university in Pasadena, California.
The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, known as The Huntington, is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Huntington in San Marino, California. In addition to the library, the institution houses an extensive art collection with a focus on 18th and 19th century European art and 17th to mid-20th century American art. The property also has approximately 120 acres (49 ha) of specialized botanical landscaped gardens, including the "Japanese Garden", the "Desert Garden", and the "Chinese Garden".
The Norton Simon Museum is an Art Museum located in Pasadena, California. It was previously known as the Pasadena Art Institute and the Pasadena Art Museum and displays numerous sculptures on its grounds.
The Wing Luke Museum is a museum in Seattle, Washington, United States, which focuses on the culture, art and history of Asian Pacific Americans. It is located in the city's Chinatown-International District. Established in 1967, the museum is a Smithsonian Institution affiliate and the only pan-Asian Pacific American community-based museum in the country. It has relocated twice since its founding, most recently to the East Kong Yick Building in 2008. In February 2013 it was recognized as one of two dozen affiliated areas of the U.S. National Park Service.
The Pasadena Society of Artists is a nonprofit arts organization in southern California, United States. It holds annual art exhibitions of its members' art works.
Greene and Greene was an architectural firm established by brothers Charles Sumner Greene (1868–1957) and Henry Mather Greene, influential early 20th Century American architects. Active primarily in California, their houses and larger-scale ultimate bungalows are prime exemplars of the American Arts and Crafts Movement.
Beniamino "Bene" Bufano was an Italian American sculptor, best known for his large-scale monuments representing peace and his modernist work often featured smoothly rounded animals and relatively simple shapes. He worked in ceramics, stone, stainless steel, and mosaic, and sometimes combined two or more of these media, and some of his works are cast stone replicas. He had a variety of names used and sometimes went by the name Benvenuto Bufano because he admired Benvenuto Cellini. His youthful nickname was "Bene", which was often anglicized into "Benny". He lived in northern California for much of his career.
LA Freewaves, also known as Freewaves, is a Los Angeles–based nonprofit organization that exhibits multicultural, independent media and produces free public art projects to engage artists and audiences on current social issues. It was founded in 1989 by Anne Bray, the organization's executive director. With the support of others in the arts community, Freewaves presented its first exhibition of independent, multicultural video art at the November 1989 American Film Institute's (AFI) National Video Festival.
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California is an historical society and organization based in Los Angeles Chinatown, California. There are monthly meetings, field trips, archive and library collections, oral history projects, scholarships, and publications.
Beverley Jackson was an American writer on Chinese culture and fashion, as well as international travel, polo and style. Her published works cover life in 1920s and 1930s. She published a book called Dolls of Spain in 2017. As a freelance writer, her articles were published in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Vogue Paris, British Vogue, US Vogue, and Time. Jackson lectured around the world, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Art Shanghai, and Civilization Museum Singapore. She was a featured speaker at the Shanghai International Writers Conference 2006. Jackson was a curator of Chinese textiles at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum for 20 years, and was a collector of Chinese imperial robes since 1975. She wove pine needle baskets exhibited at Casa Gallery and her collages had three major exhibitions in Santa Barbara galleries. Jackson also wrote a weekly column for The Voice.
Elizabeth Keith was a Scottish artist and writer. She was a print-maker and watercolorist whose works were significantly influenced by her travels to Japan, China, Korea and the Philippines.
Lilian May Miller was an American painter, woodblock printmaker and poet born in Tokyo, Japan. In the world of art she marked her place with imagery, while she attended presentations in traditional kimonos, and signed her paintings with a monogram.
Dominic Ng is an American banker. He has served as CEO of Los Angeles–based East West Bank since 1992, and chairman and CEO since 1998. In 2023, Ng served as chair of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council.
Grace Nicholson was an American art collector and art dealer, specializing in Native American and Chinese handicrafts. The space she originally designed for her shop is now home to the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California.
Soo Kim is a Korean-born American visual artist, and educator.
Gilbert Lester Leong (1911-1996) was a Chinese-American architect who designed churches and public buildings in the Los Angeles area. He was the first Chinese-American to graduate from USC with a degree in architecture. His designs helped shape the architecture of postwar Los Angeles and Chinatown. Leong was also a co-founder of the East West Bank in 1973. The bank was set up to serve the Chinese American community in Southern California.
John O'Shea was a California impressionist painter known for his landscape, marine, figure, and portrait paintings. He was one of the major artists in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California between 1917-1945, and resident of Carmel for 36 years. His works are held in the permanent collections of several locations, including the Harrison Memorial Library, Monterey Museum of Art, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, and the Bohemian Club.
Grace Aiko Nakamura was a Japanese American educator and the first Japanese American teacher to be hired in the Pasadena Unified School District.
