The late Filipino-American artist Pacita Abad (1946-2004)—whose 32-year career focused on marginalized people on the “periphery of power”—is having a major cultural moment. The Pacita Abad Exhibition opened at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN in 2023, as the largest museum exhibit in the U.S. devoted to an Asian American female artist.  The exhibition traveled next to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It is currently on view at MoMA PS1 in New York, then later this year, travels to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. During her career, Abad created over 4,500 artworks, adapting the trapunto technique which give her paintings a beguiling, sculptural appearance.  Her work—which has been exhibited in over 200 museums, galleries and other venues, around the world— is in public, corporate and private art collections in over 70 countries. Go behind the scenes of this ground-breaking exhibition:  Hear from Matthew Villar Miranda, Curatorial Associate at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in conversation with Lisa Boquiren.  Matthew—who as Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow worked on the Pacita Abad Exhibition at the Walker Art Center—will discuss the many references that for them informed the conceptual basis of the exhibition and catalog.  Other presenters TBA