Asian Arts & Culture Center at Towson University
PERMANENT
COLLECTIONS
The Asian
Arts & Culture Center was created in 1971 when local
businessman Frank Roberts donated his collection of
Chinese and Japanese
ivory sculpture to the university. In the same year, a matching grant
from the National Endowment for the Humanities supplemented Mr. Roberts'
gift and enabled the Center to purchase additional works of art. The
Roberts' gift prompted many other collectors to make art donations to Towson University.
The Center now owns, or has on long-term loan,
approximately 1,000 art objects from China, Korea, Japan, India,
Tibet,
Nepal, Cambodia, Indonesia and Thailand. The collection includes ceramics,
paintings, wood-block prints, textiles, carved ivories, wood, metal and
stone sculpture, cloisonné enamels and furniture.
Selected objects are
displayed in the Asian
Arts Gallery throughout the academic year
.
God of Longevity, stone, China.
Gift of Howard & Deborah Chasanow
,