JANM joins the California Community Foundation (CCF) and LA Plaza Cultura y Artes as participants in “Am I Next?” This public art campaign features images to confront attacks on civil liberties and the undermining of democratic norms that weaken civic life while raising the urgent question: If people are arrested without regard to constitutional rights, who is safe? 

At JANM, the images are projected onto the Museum’s Pavilion. JANM will intersperse images of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II with Angelenos standing against the ICE raids. The Museum’s Historic Building and Norman Y. Mineta Democracy Plaza is where more than 37,000 Japanese Americans from Los Angeles boarded buses bound for America’s concentration camps in 1942. View the projection anytime after dark at the Pavilion.

Along with JANM and CCF, participating organizations are LA Plaza de Cultural y Artes, the Museum of Latin American Art, and the Social and Public Art Resource Center. The images will appear in high-visibility areas in downtown Los Angeles, Long Beach, and the Westside.