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| The roots of
the Media Arts Center date back to 1992 when Karen Ishizuka and Robert
Nakamura first began producing film and video pieces for the Japanese
American National Museum. However, it was in January 1999 when the
National Museum opened its new 80,000 square foot Pavilion that the
Media Arts Center was officially inaugurated. The Media Arts Center
is now staffed with five accomplished media arts professionals and
equipped with state-of-the-art digital production and post-production
equipment capable of producing broadcast quality works from development
to production to post-production. |
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| Besides
its mission to share the experiences of Japanese Americans with a
broader audience, another important goal of the Media Arts Center
lies at the heart of one of their most widely-seen videos, SOMETHING
STRONG WITHIN—to be strong within "ourselves." While
building bridges to a broader community, the Media Arts Center strives
to give voice to not only the Japanese American community but also
the larger Asian Pacific American and other ethnic American communities. |
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| Established
in 1985 as a private, not-for-profit educational instution, the Japanese
American National Museum is the only museum in the United States expressly
dedicated to preserving and making known the experiences of Americans
of Japanese ancestry within the context of America's heritage. |
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