In August 2022, graduate students Yifan Li and Keyu Yan and PhD Alumna Effie Yin (2019) joined the Mellon Chinese Object Study Workshop Convening at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington DC. Launched in 2013 with support from the Mellon Foundation, Chinese Object Study Workshops seek to provide graduate students in Chinese art history with an immersive experience in the study of the object. A number of graduate students and alumni of the department attended past workshops.

This 3-day event brought together over 50 professors, curators, and graduate students based in North America and Europe. Highlights of the program included a keynote lecture delivered by Jonathan Hay (IFA), object-based study sessions centering around such themes as connoisseurship, color, and conservation, and a symposium.