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NUNO Textiles and Sherry Remez Trunk Show

2024年11月16日 - 2024年11月17日

Shop this season’s essentials during this special textile celebration featuring clothing and accessories from NUNO Textiles and handmade jewelry by Sherry Remez.Saturday, November 16: NUNO Textiles and Sherry RemezSunday, November 17: NUNO TextilesHours: 11 a.m.–4:30 p.m. (both days)NUNO combines traditional weaving technologies with state-of-the-art materials to produce unique fabric and apparel that reflect centuri...

"Vanished: Lompoc’s Japanese, Of One Hundred Families Only Two Returned "by John V. McReynolds

2011年06月18日

The story of tiny Lompoc, California, where a vibrant and varied Nikkei community with 40 year roots was dispossessed in 1942 and denied return, it was pieced together from interviews with more than 80 survivors, uncommonly candid reports by a War Relocation agent on the scene, and from local newspaper accounts. “There are threats about burning my house if I have any more Japanese in my home,” wrote George Kimbel, a ...

"Transforming the Commonplace": Curator Daniell Cornell talks about the life and legacy of Ruth Asawa

2007年03月11日

Organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air is a brilliant retrospective of the artist's richly varied career. A Nisei who was incarcerated in Rohwer Concentration Camp, Asawa went on to become a highly influential figure in the history of American modernism and is recognized nationally for her activism in arts education. Daniell Cornell, Associate Curator of ...

Members' Reception for "Drifting: Nakahama Manjiro's Tale of Discovery"

2003年10月10日

National Museum Members at the Annual Giving Levels ($1,000 and above) are invited to join us for a private preview of the exhibition. RSVP required. For more information, please contact Theresa Hashimoto at 213.830.5655.

Opening of "From Bento to Mixed Plate" at Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum

2002年05月24日

Opening of the exhibition, From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i

The Forgotten War: The Impact of the Korean War on Japanese Americans and their Community

2000年04月29日

Featuring: Hiroshi "Hershey" Miyamura, Charles Kubokawa, Norman Y. Mineta, Vince Okamoto, Judge Taketsugi Takei, Robert Wada, and host Mitchell T. Maki The Korean War is often referred to as the "Forgotten War" and yet its impact upon Japanese Americans would change the community forever. This discussion will explore the complicated issues associated with the Korean War and its social impact on society, sp...

"Kenjiro Nomura: An Artist's View of the Japanese American Internment" exhibition opens October 4, 1997

1997年09月25日

The Japanese American National Museum opens a new exhibit, Saturday, October 4, 1997. Kenjiro Nomura: An Artist’s View of the Japanese American Internment highlights the images created by artist Kenjiro Nomura while he was incarcerated in the Minidoka concentration camp in Hunt, Idaho. Already an established and prolific artist when he and his family were forcibly removed from their home in Seattle and placed in Mi...

Whispered Silences: Japanese American Detention Camps, Fifty Years Later Photographs Document Remains Of Wartime Experience

1997年05月03日

Whispered Silences: Japanese American Detention Camps, Fifty Years Later, opens Saturday, May 3, 1997 at the Japanese American National Museum. Part of the Shithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service (SITES), the Museum is one stop in the exhibit’s North American tour. Fourty-four contemporary platinum-palladium prints were taken by photographer Joan Myers and evoke the wartime experiences of Japanese ...

Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty! - Press

For press inquiries, email mediarelations@janm.org or call 213.625.0414. Media access to Hello! is by advance arrangement only. Please contact at least 2 business days in advance of your intended visit. Press Photo Gallery (Password Access Only—contact mediarelations@janm.org for access.)

Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty - Venues

Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty originated at the Japanese American National Museum and was on display October 11, 2014 – May 31, 2015. TRAVELING EXHIBITION Past Venue EMP Museum November 14, 2015 – May 15, 2016 Seattle Center 325 5th Avenue N Seattle, WA 98109 Web: empmuseum.org Phone: 206.770.2700