Asian Centennial Artist Talk: Roberto Jamora

Roberto Jamora is a Filipino-American Richmond-based artist and educator. He holds an MFA from Purchase College, State University of New York, and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. The Asian Centennial committee chose Jamora to be the inaugural Asian Centennial Distinguished Fine Arts Fellow at William & Mary. During this talk, Jamora presented his vision for artistically expressing the Asian Pacific Middle Eastern experience and history at William & Mary on September 28 at the Muscarelle Museum of Art. His recent work includes The Sound of Fate Knocking at the Door 2, which the Muscarelle Museum of Art acquired in honor of the Asian Centennial. The painting is part of a series called An Inventory of Traces. Jamora says that the purpose of the series is to “commit important events in my life to memory via painting. I mine color from memory, photos, interviews, and artifacts from my family.”

This lecture was co-sponsored by the Asian Centennial Committee and the Muscarelle Museum of Art.

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