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Two-Day Workshop: Shibori On! Continuing Explorations in "Shibori" and Indigo

2018年03月24日 - 2018年03月25日

SOLD OUT Saturday–Sunday, March 24–25 11 a.m.–4 p.m. In this two-day workshop, continue working with indigo and shibori dyeing using a broad selection of beautiful fabrics, both vintage and unique. Shibori techniques of itajime, arashi, nui, and more will be practiced with both new and continuing students. Participants will also dye threads for stitching and explore some of the things that can ...

Author Discussion—"Taken from the Paradise Isle" by Heidi Kim

2016年01月09日

George and Tamae Hoshida and their children were a Japanese American family who lived in Hawai‘i. In 1942, George was arrested as a "potentially dangerous alien" and incarcerated in a series of camps over the next two years. Tamae sought to reunite with George, and was eventually sent to the Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas with her three of her daughters, including a newborn. She was forced to leave her handic...

Good-bye, "Hello!" Complimentary Breakfasts

2015年05月31日

Saturdays, May 9, 16, 23, 30 Sundays, May 10, 17, 24, 31 Make the most of your membership privileges! JANM members are invited to celebrate the final month of Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty with free light refreshments, served during exclusive members’ viewing hours.

"Lament in the Night" by Shoson Nagahara

2013年02月23日

This event is free! In 1925, writer Shōson Nagahara serialized tales of Japanese immigrants in the Rafu Shimpo. For the first time, Kaya Press has published an English translation of Nagahara’s stories about Little Tokyo’s down-and-out denizens. In Lament in the Night, we meet itinerant day laborer Sazuko Ishikawa as he prowls the back alleys and bathhouses of Los Angeles looking for a meal or a job, or just som...

"Honor Thy Children" by Al and Jane Nakatani

2011年09月24日

FREE! Al and Jane Nakatani, presently living in Maui, lost all three of their sons. In their book, Honor Thy Children, they tell the story of how two died of AIDS, and the other was murdered. They will relate their inspiring story of reconciliation.

So Easily Lost, Too Nearly Forgotten: Pre-War Japanese American Photographers

2010年10月23日

Little Tokyo was home to a group of art photographers whose works were exhibited and published worldwide during the 1920s and 1930s. Sadly most of their photographs were lost or destroyed during the forced relocation of Japanese Americans. Professor Dennis Reed began searching for these lost photographs 30 years ago, a hunt he detailed earlier this year on National Public Radio’s The Story. He will discuss the pho...

One Way or Another

2008年02月10日 - 2008年05月04日

One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, a traveling exhibition organized by the Asia Society, brings together seventeen artists from across the United States who challenge and extend the category of Asian American art. The title of the exhibition, drawn from the 1978 Blondie hit song, suggests a non-formulaic way of making or seeing art. The artists and their works characterize the freedom to choose, manipulate a...

Ansel Adams at Manzanar

2006年11月11日 - 2007年02月18日

Ansel Adams at Manzanar, organized by the Honolulu Academy of Arts, includes over 50 vintage prints from the collections of the Library of Congress, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and the Japanese American National Museum. From 1943 to 1944, Ansel Adams made a number of trips to Manzanar concentration camp, located in California's Inyo County to the east of th...

Behold The Many by Lois-Ann Yamanaka

2006年02月11日

Lois-Ann Yamanaka's new work melds culture and spirituality into the story of a young girl attempting to escape the haunting legacy of her two sisters. Acclaimed author of Father of the Four Passages (2001, Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Yamanaka illustrates a brutal tale of love and loss, life and death in the Kahili Valley on the island of O'ahu.

Lasting Beauty

2005年02月06日 - 2005年07月24日

Art teacher Mabel Rose Jamison wrote, “a good painting is a thing of lasting beauty” in testament to the ambitious mural project undertaken by eight of her students at Rohwer High School. At any school during any time period, such a project would require a teacher of immense dedication, and students with profound maturity and skill. What makes the story of these murals particularly extraordinary is that it took place...