Asian Arts & Culture Center

09/05/2026

09/05/2026

Opening Reception & Artist Talk
Myungsook Ryu Kim: Encounter
Wednesday, September 9, 7:00pm
Asian Arts Gallery & Center for the Arts Atrium, Towson University

1 Fine Arts Drive, Towson, MD 21204

Join artist, Myungsook Ryu Kim, to explore the Encounter exhibition together and gain insights into how she creates art that pulsates with energy and harmoniously juxtaposes Eastern philosophies with Western media techniques.

Images clockwise: Breath, Encounter with God, Forgotten Forest III, Floating Cloud, Tideless Love, Fog, Silent Friends I. Center: Myungsook Kim.

08/31/2026

Celebrate the release of Meghana Mysore's new story collection, Let All Our Ghosts Depart! Meghana will be in conversation with Baltimore author Marian Crotty.

Tuesday, September 8 at 7 p.m.
Greedy Reads. 320 W 29th St, Baltimore, MD 21211

REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meghana-mysore-presents-let-all-our-ghosts-depart-tickets-1995529369061

About Let All Our Ghosts Depart:

In Meghana Mysore's debut short story collection, present-day women and girls of the South Asian diaspora grapple with belonging and are haunted by intergenerational inheritances. Mysore, herself the daughter of Indian immigrants, spins her stories around narrators struggling to assimilate into the surreal world around them. In the world of these stories, ghosts are real--in “Repair Shop,” dead mothers reappear as chiding, broken-down cars; in “Hoarder,” the narrator’s ex-lovers transform into scarves that won't let her go. In another story, a daughter, trapped inside her grief, spends her days Face Timing with her dead father, watching him become a young man she never knew.

At turns absurd and darkly humorous, and sometimes speculative, Mysore’s stories touch on real-life experiences of intergenerational trauma, womanhood, the fluidity of desire and longing, and coming home to one’s body. Her characters have faced violences small and large, holding losses that bind them to their pasts and weigh them down in daily life. Each of these stories contains an experience of transformation, be it small or monumental for these women, who find spaces of freedom and delight within their circumstances.

08/09/2026

SAVE THE DATE: Opening on September 9!

Exhibition
Encounter 해후(邂逅) by Myungsook Ryu Kim 류명수 (柳明秀)
September 9 – December 12 (closed October 23 and November 25-29)
Monday – Saturday 11 am – 4 pm
Asian Arts Gallery, Center for the Arts, Towson University. 1 Fine Arts Drive, Towson, MD 21204

Myungsook Ryu Kim reveals a world of harmonious connections across cultures, art, and life. She brilliantly merges classical East Asian art and philosophy with media techniques of the West. Through a profusion of colors, textures, and dimensions, the works explore change and impermanence, illuminate the interdependence of heaven and earth and humans and nature, interpret experience and spirituality, embrace the juxtaposition of poetry and painting, and celebrate Korean history.

Image: Forgotten Forest III by Myungsook Ryu Kim.

07/10/2026

Be Moved to Tears by Hirokazu Kore-eda's Multi-Award Winning Film

Like Father Like Son (そして父になる,Sosh*te Chichi ni Naru )
Saturday, July 18, 1pm
Towson University Art Lecture Hall, CA 2032
FREE Registration Required: https://www.bkscc.org/events/japan-film-program

A ten-minute standing ovation followed the premiere of Like Father Like Son at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Two couples—from different classes and with contrasting parenting styles—discover that their six-year-old sons were switched at birth and embark on journeys of soul-searching, impossible decisions, and coming to terms with the meaning of family. (color) Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. 120 minutes.

Hosted by and from the private collection of Reed Hessler, longtime host on WBJC.

Co-presented by the Baltimore Kawasaki Sister City Committee,
TU College of Fine Arts and Communication Dean’s Office, and TU Asian Arts & Culture Center.

06/30/2026

Now on AA&CC's Greater Baltimore Asian Community History online resource: Updated Korean American Community History.

Watch/Hear/Read the Stories: https://www.towson.edu/campus/artsculture/centers/asianarts/collection-resources/baltimore-asian-community-history/korean-american/

Image: Tae Soon Lee talks to Der'eek Fields’ girlfriend, who is on speaker phone, as Fields checks out at Lee's Mini Market. (Jessica Gallagher/The Baltimore Banner)

06/20/2026

Now on AA&CC's Greater Baltimore Asian Community History online resource: Indian American Community History.

Watch/Hear/Read the Stories: https://www.towson.edu/campus/artsculture/centers/asianarts/collection-resources/baltimore-asian-community-history/indian-american.html

Image: Shaalini Desai of Laasya Academy. Photo by Siva Sottallu.

06/10/2026

Now on AA&CC's Greater Baltimore Asian Community History online resource: Updated Chinese American Community History.

Watch/Hear/Read the Stories: https://www.towson.edu/campus/artsculture/centers/asianarts/collection-resources/baltimore-asian-community-history/chinese-american.html

Image: Jerry Tsang, owner of Baltimore's Po Tung Oriental Grocery. Photo by Mike Morgan.