This summer, PhD student Asia Adomanis will be in residency at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) as a Predoctoral Fellow in Asian American Art. Asia’s fellowship is supported by funding from the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and the Big Ten Academic Alliance/Smithsonian Fellowship Program. As a SAAM Predoctoral Fellow, under the supervision of SAAM’s curator of twentieth century art, Melissa Ho, Asia will conduct research for a dissertation chapter entitled “Inscrutable Surfaces: Confronting Abstraction, Authenticity, and Cold War Racial (Il)legibility in Seong Moy’s Color Woodcuts, 1946-1965.”