Heritage Museum of Asian Art is the only museum in the Midwest exclusively dedicated to Asian art. Located in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood, the museum preserves and promotes the diverse traditions of Asian art through exhibitions, collections, and public programs that connect historical works with contemporary artists, communities, and cultural practices.
With a collection spanning from 4000 BCE through the nineteenth century, the museum is especially known for its Chinese and Japanese classical art. Through rotating exhibitions, artist talks, performances, workshops, and educational programs, HMAA creates opportunities for visitors to encounter Asian art as a living and evolving tradition.
HMAA is committed to preserving the stories and legacies of community artists, particularly those whose contributions to Chicago’s cultural life have been overlooked. Through oral histories, archival preservation, research, and exhibitions, the museum works with artists, families, and community partners to make these histories accessible to future generations.
Image: Eugene I-Peng Tang, Audience Viewing Ming Dynasty Chinese Glazed Pottery of a Funerary Procession, installation view, Heritage Museum of Asian Art.
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Their works begin with the calligraphic traditions of East and West Asia and take them somewhere distinctly their own. Both are interested in what happens when a word becomes an experience rather than a symbol, when calligraphy moves beyond representation and begins to embody concepts. Oda’s practice grows from Shodō, where brush, ink, body, and breath come together in a singular act. His work explores how written language can become a universal architecture of connection, while his engagement with natural phenomena transforms these words into states of movement, atmosphere, and presence. Panahi draws on the Persian tradition of Nastaliq, opening its forms toward abstraction, sound, and music. His concept of Musicalligraphy brings calligraphy and music into conversation, engaging words and ideas such as mehr—love, longing, and peace—not simply as subjects, but as ways of being. Though their vocabularies and cultural lineages are distinct, both artists treat the word as a portal into experience. Love, rain, water, and music can all become conditions of experience. The calligraphic act does not simply write the word, but becomes it.
The exhibition is accompanied by live performances by both artists on the reception night, where calligraphy unfolds as a singular act, made in the moment and impossible to repeat. Additional artist talks and workshops will take place on separate dates throughout the exhibition.
This exhibition is made possible through a collaboration between the Seldon Institute and the Heritage Museum of Asian Art, supported by the Research House for Asian Art.
Program Series: Opening Reception and Calligraphy Performance
October 16, 5 - 8 PM | $40
Research House for Asian Art
3217 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Artist-led Tour During Open House Chicago
October 17, 1 - 3 PM | free
Research House for Asian Art
3217 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Musicalligraphy: Immersive Workshop
October 18, 1 - 4 PM | General Admission $80
Seldon Institute Calligraphic Dialogues
October 18, 11 AM - 1 PM | free
Seldon Institute
Event registration: https://www.heritageasianart.org/2026becomingwords
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Bringing together art appreciation, history, tea ceremony, tasting, and live music, this program considers tea as both an everyday drink and an enduring expression of Chinese culture. Guests will view a special exhibition of Yixing purple-clay teapots from the Heritage Museum of Asian Art’s collection and the Grace Chun Collection at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago.
Celebrated for their distinctive material, craftsmanship, and close relationship to tea preparation, Yixing teapots reveal the artistry and cultural values embedded in the tea experience. Under guidance, guests will also have an opportunity to handle a few Yixing teapots.
The evening will include a lecture and conversation connecting tea to the museum’s collection and to the history of Chinese society. Learn about tea’s changing role through the centuries, its place in Chinese cultural life, and the ways Chinese herbal teas have been introduced and shared within American communities. A live tea-art demonstration and tasting led by Puremind Tea Culture Center will invite participants to experience the aromas, flavors, and attentive rituals of tea preparation firsthand.
Accompanied by live Chinese music, the program offers a welcoming space to savor tea, encounter art, and reflect on how cultural traditions continue to travel, adapt, and connect communities today.
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You will learn about the history and regional styles of this colorful art form, and create one Kurpie-style cutting and one Łowićz-style cutting in this 2-hour workshop.
With just paper and scissors, you'll be amazed at the vibrant beauty you can create.
No experience is necessary—just bring your creativity!
This workshop is part of the Cutting East to West exhibition.
Presented in collaboration with members of the Guild of American Papercutters (GAP), Cutting East to West invites visitors to discover the precision, imagination, and cultural stories held within a single sheet of paper.
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The Gala is designed as an immersive celebration of the living traditions of Asia. Guests will enjoy a exciting menu featuring Peking duck, fresh sushi, handmade Chinese potstickers, and other Asian-inspired dishes, along with beverages throughout the evening.
You'll also experience a wide range of interactive cultural activities, including Japanese whisky appreciation, Chinese traditional massage, Chinese fortune-telling, Chinese flower hairpin artistry, Kintsugi, Wagashi demonstrations, Chinese ceramic making, live gongbi painting, Chinese traditional medicine, and more.
August 15th 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Heritage Museum of Asian Art
3500 S Morgan St, 3F, Chicago
Chinatown's Renaissance Man: The Life and Art of Andy Hoi-Csiu Chan is not a retrospective in the conventional sense. It is an exhibition of discovery, an evolving presentation of an archive as it is being uncovered, organized, digitized, and understood.
Since 2025, the Heritage Museum of Asian Art (HMAA) has been working closely with Andy Chan’s family to preserve and study his extraordinary personal archive. Containing approximately 30,000 items, the archive includes photographs, documents, artworks, artist materials and tools, personal objects, and hundreds of hours of VHS recordings. The scale of the collection reflects the remarkable range of Andy’s life, but it also reveals something larger: a largely unknown history of Chinese American artistic and cultural life in Chicago. Andy was much more than an individual artist. His Chinatown art studio was a center for art education but also a gathering place where artists met, exchanged ideas, made work, and built friendships. Over the decades, he welcomed and hosted hundreds of artists visiting Chicago from China and elsewhere, becoming an important bridge between artists, generations, and communities. Through these encounters, his studio became an informal cultural center and a witness to a period of Chicago's Chinese American art history that remains largely unknown to the general public.
The exhibition opening on August 21, 2026, represents only the first stage of discovery. Rather than presenting the archive as something already researched and completed, HMAA is bringing the archival process directly into the gallery. Throughout the exhibition, museum staff and project participants will conduct live archiving, allowing visitors to observe how photographs are identified, documents are examined, VHS recordings are digitized, objects are cataloged, and stories are connected. As this archival work continues, the exhibition itself will remain in motion. A portion of the artworks on display will change approximately every week, bringing newly discovered or newly documented works into the gallery throughout the exhibition. Newly identified photographs, recordings, documents, objects, and stories may also be introduced as the research develops. Visitors who return from week to week may therefore encounter different artworks and discoveries. In this sense, the gallery becomes both an exhibition space and a working archive—a place where history is not simply presented, but actively reconstructed in public. This project also asks a larger question: How much of our community history remains hidden in studios, homes, closets, boxes, photographs, and videotapes? Andy Chan’s archive reminds us that history is not preserved automatically. Without the efforts of families, artists, community members, and cultural institutions, important stories can easily disappear.
For more information click here
Join us for the Mid-Autumn Festival Gathering in Memory of Andy Hoi-Csiu Chan
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Pay what you can
Heritage Museum of Asian Aart
Join us for an evening of food, memories, and discovery honoring Chicago artist Andy Hoi-Csiu Chan. For more than fifty years, Andy was one of the few masters of traditional Chinese painting, who has inspired hundreds of students and helped introduce Chinese painting to wider audiences.
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