*UPDATE: 

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the conversation between Erika Chong Shuch and Trisha Lagaso Goldberg scheduled for Monday, May 4^th from 6-8 PM will be postponed. 

The Anderson will make an announcement and update this listing with the new event date within the next few weeks. 

In the meantime, you can learn more about 1,000 Ways to Hold in these recent articles: 

'1,000 Ways to Hold': Erika Chong Shuch creates community through ceramics at the Anderson in the Stanford Daily

and here

New exhibition asks, ‘What have you held?’ in the Stanford Report. 

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Join artist Erika Chong Shuch in conversation with Trisha Lagaso Goldberg, Director of Programming & Engagement at the Anderson Collection, as they discuss 1,000 Ways to Hold. Rooted in conversation and clay, the exhibition brings people together to shape bowls while reflecting on the question, “What have you held, and what has held you?” The artist will share insights into the project’s development and the collective stories that form this archive of connection.

The exhibition will be on view in the Wisch Family Gallery from April 2 – August 17, 2026.

Panelists

Erika Chong Shuch is a choreographer, director, and performance maker whose work bridges experimental performance and social practice through inventive forms of audience engagement. Centering people and labor often overlooked, her projects reimagine where and how art-making begins. She is the founder of For You, a performance group that brings strangers together through experiences ranging from intimate encounters to large-scale public gatherings. Erika has been commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Court Theatre (Chicago), The Momentary, Cantor Arts Center, and Edge on the Square (San Francisco). Her work has been supported by Creative Capital, New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Gerbode Foundation. She was a 2022–23 Bay Area Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts and is currently co-creating The Table with Mei Ann Tao and the San Francisco Civic Theater Project with Jonathan Moscone.

Trisha Lagaso Goldberg is an educator, public art consultant, and curator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her curatorial practice amplifies artists historically excluded from dominant narratives, including Indigenous artists, artists of color, and members of queer and trans communities, with a particular focus on Asian and Pacific Islander diasporas. Born and raised in Hawai‘i and shaped by two decades in San Francisco, she piloted the commissioned works branch of the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts’ public art program and was the founding gallery director of thirtyninehotel in Honolulu. She is currently Director of Programming & Engagement at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University and is developing the exhibitions Remittance (2026) and Noguchi + Hawai‘i (2027).