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"Sugar/Islands" Panel Discussion and Reception

2015年07月11日

Sugar/Islands: Finding Okinawa in Hawai‘i—The Art of Laura Kina and Emily Hanako Momohara curator Krystal Hauseur, PhD, and artists Laura Kina and Emily Hanako Momohara discuss the ideas, histories, and inspirations behind their exhibition. Light reception to follow. This program is free, but RSVPs are strongly encouraged.

Museums Free-For-All Weekend

2009年10月03日

It’s National Arts Month! Celebrate the arts by visiting local LA-area museums for FREE (days and hours vary per museum). Visit www.museumsla.org/news.asp for a complete listing of participating museums.

Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata: Sumi-e Scenery

2006年01月28日

Create simple landscapes in the style of sumi-e. $8 for National Museum members and $15 for non-members, includes supplies and Museum admission.

"Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata

2005年06月04日

Ms. Kadohata will read excerpts from Kira-Kira, a children's novel and winner of the 2005 John Newbery Medal. Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem kira-kira, the Japanese word for "glittering". When the Takeshima family moves from a Japanese community in Iowa to Georgia in the 1950s, it's Lynn who explains to Katie why people stop them on the street to stare. And it's Lynn who, with her special way ...

Taiko Jam Session with Hydaiko Taiko

2003年05月18日

Participants will have an opportunity to play taiko and learn about the origins and traditions of the big drum.

Taiko Jam Session with Hydaiko Taiko

2003年02月16日

Participants will have an opportunity to play taiko and learn about the origins and traditions of the big drum.

Taiko Jam Session with Hydaiko Taiko

2003年01月19日

Participants will have an opportunity to play taiko and learn about the origins and traditions of the big drum.

Cold Tofu Improv

2000年09月21日

Join the Museum for an evening of laughs with the multi-talented and entertaining improv group Cold Tofu.

Collections Access

Accessing the Permanent Collection The over 150,000 objects that comprise the JANM permanent collection chronicle the Japanese American experience in its entirety from early immigration to the present. Artifacts related to early immigration to the United States at the turn of the 20th century, early life in Japanese American communities, and the World War II incarceration experience and military service are streng...

Hisako Hibi Collection

(96.601, 98.138, 99.63) Includes sixty-three oil paintings painted by artist Hisako Hibi at Tanforan Assembly Center in California and Topaz concentration camp in Utah from 1942 to 1945. Subjects include various daily activities, still lifes, and landscapes. Born Hisako Shimizu in Fukui, Japan in 1907, Hibi came to the United States in 1920 with her parents. In 1925, when the rest of her family returned to Japan, ...