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JANM Supports Legislation to Recognize Civil Rights Activist Fred Korematsu

2025年03月06日

Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) supports efforts to recognize civil rights activist Fred Korematsu with the reintroduction of legislation for the Fred Korematsu Congressional Gold Medal Act, which would posthumously award a Congressional Go...

LITTLE TOKYO-ALIGNED GROUPS UNITE IN OPPOSITION TO USE OF FORT SILL AS DETENTION CENTER

2019年06月21日

Los Angeles, CA—Representatives of several community organizations located in or aligned with Little Tokyo will protest the White House’s plans to use Fort Sill in Oklahoma as a detention center for immigrant children and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention practices in general on June 27, 2019, at 7 p.m., on the plaza of the Japanese American National Museum. The groups are demanding an end to the inhuma...

Members Only Exhibition Tour: "hapa.me – 15 years of the hapa project"

2018年07月07日

SOLD OUT Join exhibition creator Kip Fulbeck for a gallery tour of hapa.me. Space is limited to 25 participants. This tour is sold out. To be placed on a waitlist, please contact memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.

CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE TO COMMEMORATE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF WWII JAPANESE AMERICAN 100TH INFANTRY BATTALION/442ND RCT

2018年06月13日

Los Angeles, CA—The nonprofit Go For Broke National Education Center (GFBNEC) and the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) today announced that the California State Senate plans to adopt a resolution commemorating the 75th anniversary of the formation of the 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, the venerable Japanese American World War II unit. The resolution, to be presented by California State...

From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami. A Lecture by Robert Lang

2012年05月26日

This program is FREE! The last decade of this past century has been witness to a revolution in the development and application of mathematical techniques to origami, the centuries-old Japanese art of paper-folding. The techniques used in mathematical origami design range from the abstruse to the highly approachable. In this talk, I will describe how geometric concepts led to the solution of a broad class of origami...

Exhibition and Performance: Visual artist Mineko Grimmer and music of composer John Cage

2012年03月03日 - 2012年03月04日

Saturday, March 3 at 8 PM Sunday, March 4 at 5 PM Each of the works, entitled One6 and One10, is an extended composition for solo violin. Written to be performed with a specific kinetic sound sculpture created by the visual artist. Part of Southwest Chamber Music’s Cage 2012, a three-year centennial celebration of the work of this seminal Los Angeles-born composer, whose music and thought were highly influential i...

JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM PRESENTS TOSHIKO TAKAEZU: THE ART OF CLAY AUG. 6-NOV. 27

2005年08月04日

The Japanese American National Museum presents Toshiko Takaezu: The Art of Clay beginning August 6, 2005, the first solo exhibition of an artist known for delving into the expressive nature of clay, explorations of closed forms, and innovative painterly glazes. The exhibition features recent works by Takaezu including her signature creation of closed-mouth "pots" which act as three-dimensional canvases; spherical Moo...

Fresh Words and Action: "The Abduction of Lady Wen Chi"

2003年05月22日

Performing Arts Series Held Every Fourth Thursday Text, lyrics and music by Mimi Seton; additional music by James Peterson The Abduction of Lady Wen Chi is Mimi Seton's imaginative re-working of a Chinese tale of an upper-class girl, educated in Confucianism, but still unworldly, who is violently kidnapped by H'siung Nu nomads at the end of the Han Dynasty. Her journey through 15 years in the desert—from naive gi...

The Life and Work of George Hoshida: A Japanese American’s Journey—Jerome

1943–1944 The concentration camp at Jerome had no guards in the watchtowers because, unlike most of the other concentration camps, it was surrounded by swamps infested with poisonous snakes. Hoshida’s wife, Tamae, had “voluntarily evacuated” to the mainland with the hope that she could be reunited with her husband. In the middle of winter, two months after the birth of their youngest daughter, Tamae traveled from ...

Boyle Heights: The Power of Place—Stories

Explore accompanying materials produced for the exhibition: Watch a documentary produced by JANM’s Watase Media Arts Center for the exhibition. Watch a retrospective Q&A presented virtually in 2020, with exhibition/documentary producers and curators Sojin Kim and Claudia Sobral; along with Chicano Artivista Quetzal Flores; musician, writer, and producer Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara; and JANM VP of Exhibitions and...