Anderson Japanese Gardens' monthly lecture features Kendall Brown, Professor of Asian Art History at California State University Long Beach. Very few pre-modern Japanese paintings show gardens. But a major subject is human interaction with idealized nature. This lecture explores those images to see what they suggest about the activities that maximize our experience of natural settings. Kendall Brown has published a widely on Japanese-style gardens in America, on diverse topics in Japanese art, and his first book was on Japanese paintings of hermits in nature. This talk brings together some of his earliest interests in medieval Japanese art and his enduring fascination with Japanese gardens in the modern world.

Location: Anderson Japanese Gardens

318 Spring Creek Road, Rockford, Illinois 61107

Hours: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Admission: Garden members free; nonmembers $5

Link: https://andersongardens.org/cultural-educational/monthly-lecture-series/