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Two Day Workshop: Practical Cloth Making

2025年01月25日 - 2025年01月26日

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT! Discover the creativity and fun in making your own cloth for a wide variety of projects. Taught by Glennis Dolce, this workshop will explore how to use boro techniques and sashiko stitching to make whole cloth from scraps. Learn how to sew, appliqué, and more to create cloth for pillows, wall pieces, clothing, and bags.This workshop is limited to fifteen participants and is open to all levels ...

JANM Members Only: Coffee and Community

2024年12月14日

Enjoy great coffee and be in-the-know of the big changes coming to JANM.Find out more about the major renovation of JANM’s Pavilion that will start in early 2025 and JANM on the Go, a series of programs and events that will engage communities in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo and beyond. The morning will also include insights into the design and development of our new core exhibition and self-guided or docent-led tours o...

The Art of Movement and Coalition Building: Learning from Yuri Kochiyama

2020年07月23日

FREE This discussion centers on the inspiring force of activist Yuri Kochiyama (1921–2014), whose work to build community and solidarity across racial and generational lines in the decades after World War II is a timely model for today’s movement building and efforts toward meaningful allyship. In the 1960s, the Harlem apartment of Yuri and Bill Kochiyama was a hub of community service and social justice mo...

Two-Day Jewelry Workshop: The Wonderful World of Washi

2020年02月22日 - 2020年02月23日

SOLD OUT Saturday, February 22: 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Sunday, February 23: 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Learn how to make your own gorgeous jewelry! Washi is a traditional Japanese handmade decorative paper made from the inner bark of plants such as mulberry, bamboo, and wisteria. The intertwining fibers result in a durable paper that can decorate any surface, including wooden and metal beads. In addition to making a unique wa...

A Celebration of Life: Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga

2018年09月02日

Join family and friends as they gather to celebrate the life of Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga: warrior, activist, researcher, friend, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother. Details and RSVP on Facebook.

Legacies of Postwar Japan’s “War Bride” Era

2018年06月30日

FREE During and shortly after the US-Allied Occupation of Japan, the Japanese women who fraternized with soldiers often met opposition from their families and were shunned by other Japanese. Many mixed-race children faced severe prejudice for being “impure” and born from the former enemy. This symposium brings together various stakeholders to tell the stories of the war brides and their children. By focusing on...

The Community Day of Remembrance

2009年02月21日

FREE ALL DAY! The Day of Remembrance is held each year to commemorate President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. EO 9066 authorized the unconstitutional forced removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans from the west coast and Hawai'i during World War II. Mass incarceration of Japanese Americans was accepted by the majority of US Citizens because of the racial prejud...

The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa

2007年03月10日 - 2007年05月27日

This exhibition represents a retrospective of this Nisei artist's enduring and richly varied career. Born on a truck farm in Southern California, Asawa was incarcerated at Rohwer concentration camp in Arkansas during World War II. In the 1940s, she attended Black Mountain College, the famous experimental art school in North Carolina. The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa begins with her earliest sculptures, drawings, and pa...

Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations (2025)

Learn about the intersection of history, culture, and community through a workshop from JANM and the National Endowment for the Humanities: “Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations."

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