25 mented reality for her Museums Concentration senior capstone project. Student Museum Educator Natalie Sandstrom ‘19J created “Discovery Cards” for family audiences to engage them in various activities with objects in the exhibition. The programs offered the opportunity to ex- pand on themes in the exhibition and present different voices and ideas. Collaboration was key, and helped strengthen our relationship with the East Asian languag- es and literature department and the East Asian studies program, connect with relevant student organizations and engage the community with this collection through various learning strategies. The lecture “Bodies in Earth: Postwar Japanese Ceramics, Photography and Installation Art” by Bert Winther-Tamaki, chair of the art history department and professor of visual studies at the University of California, Irvine, was co-sponsored by the Five College History of Art Faculty Seminar and the East Asian Studies Program at Smith College. A Multidisciplinary Five College Symposium revealed faculty interests and scholarship through responses to objects in the exhibition. For many of the 13 faculty participants, their interactions with works of art in class visits with students informed their presenta- tions. The teaching and learning that occurs through working with Asian art in the collection is varied and crosses disciplines. Not surprisingly, though, East Asian languages and literature and East Asian studies courses used the exhibition the most, including History 222: The Place of Protest in Early Modern and Modern Japan, EAL 245: Writing, Japan and Otherness, and EAL 281: Revising the Past in Chinese Literature and Film. The faculty for these and other classes that visited the exhibition participated in our symposium, having engaged in close looking and interpretation of works of art with their students. Artist Mina Cheon’s extended time on campus provided various levels of engagement beginning with her public performance of UMMA’s Cleaning Lesson II in the role of Kim Il Soon, a North Korean mother figure, which took place in the gallery where 体 Modern Images of the Body was on view. As the speaker for the 15th annual Miller Lecture in Art and Art History, she discussed her intellectual and artistic interests and practice in her lecture “North Korean Awareness and Global Peace Projects.” Mina Cheon also conducted critiques with senior studio art majors, talked with local middle and high school teachers and met students for conversation in the galleries which continued over tea as she shared her video projects. “The 体 Modern Images of the Body from East Asia exhibition provided an excellent opportunity for students in my EAL 245 class (Writing, Japan and Otherness) to engage with photographic images of Japan from the late 19th century. Students enjoyed working with these images and discussing ideas about the photographic gaze, power and “otherness.” In their final project for the course, students were tasked with re-envisioning works we had discussed in the course, and several students used the photographs as inspiration for their own photographs revisiting ideas of identity and otherness in the 21st century. The exhibition also introduced me to a number of works which I had not realized were in the Smith collection, and I hope to integrate them into other classes in the future.” — Professor Kimberly Kono, associate professor of East Asian languages and literatures