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Textiles Madness

2019年05月11日 - 2019年05月12日

Saturday–Sunday, May 11–12 • 11 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE* Just in time for Mother’s Day textiles that spark joy! This year for our May Member Appreciation Days weekend we are bringing in a very special trunk show. We will be featuring handmade wearable art by Anne McCaddon of COATZ, made from re-purposed indigo art fabrics, and a fabulous selection of handwoven and hand-dyed art textiles and scarves from Mimbres: Art i...

Member Appreciation Days

2019年05月10日 - 2019年05月12日

Friday–Sunday, May 10–12 Members enjoy a 20% discount at the JANM Store and janmstore.com, plus free admission and a 20% discount at other SoCal institutions, including the California Science Center, Fowler Museum, USC Pacific Asia Museum, and more. Visit janmstore.com/membershopping in May for details, restrictions, and a complete list of participants.

Film Screening, Q&A, and Reception—"Masters of Modern Design"

2019年05月09日

FREE From the hand-drawn typeface on the cover of The Godfather to Herman Miller’s biomorphic coffee table, the work of Japanese American designers including Ruth Asawa, George Nakashima, Isamu Noguchi, S. Neil Fujita, and Gyo Obata permeated postwar culture. While these second generation Japanese American artists have been celebrated, less-discussed is how their World War II incarceration—a period of intense hard...

"Common Ground" Exhibition Tour in Japanese

2019年05月05日

日系移民と日系アメリカ人の歴史を紹介する常設展「コモン・グラウンド」を日本語でご案内します。 ツアーは無料（入館料のみ）、予約不要です。

C3: Conference for Creative Content

2019年05月04日

The C3: Conference for Creative Content brings together the foremost media professionals in film, television, cable, digital, and transmedia to create a dialogue on the ever-changing media industry, share best practices, network, and to celebrate and build a collective vision. Presented by Visual Communications, the first non-profit organization in the country dedicated to portrayals of Asian Pacific American...

35th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

2019年05月03日 - 2019年05月05日

Friday, May 3 – Sunday, May 5 Visual Communications, the nation’s premier Asian Pacific American media arts center, once again brings the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF) to JANM for a series of screenings. LAAPFF is the largest film festival in Southern California dedicated to showcasing films by and about Asians and Pacific Islanders from around the world. Established in 1983 by Visual C...

ZÓCALO—How Does Community Conflict Turn Into Genocide?

2019年05月02日

The Ninth Annual Zócalo Book Prize Lecture at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy History often blames genocide solely on murderous demagogues and military campaigns. But more often than not, the forces that unleash ethnic cleansing arise slowly and during peacetime, and stem from seemingly everyday interactions in places that are home to diverse peoples. What sorts of exchanges...

Little Tokyo Walking Tour

2019年04月27日

Learn about past and present-day Little Tokyo on a walking tour led by an in-the-know JANM docent. From murals to monuments, explore both the popular and lesser-known gems of this bustling neighborhood. $12 members, $15 non-members. Museum admission included. Comfortable walking shoes recommended. Weather permitting. Limited to 20 participants.

Contested Histories at Nihon Matsuri (Salt Lake City, UT)

2019年04月27日

TRAVELING DISPLAYNihon MatsuriSalt Lake City, UT10 a.m.–5 p.mFREE and open to the publicnihonmatsuri.com Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentration camps. It was one of the first books to exami...

TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE FOR JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL GALA DINNER

2014年03月27日

Tickets for the Japanese American National Museum’s 2014 Gala Dinner, Silent Auction & After Party at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, on Saturday, April 12, are still available, as are tickets for the event’s accompanying Lexus Opportunity Drawing for a 2015 Lexus RC F. The dinner’s theme, “Evolving Pastimes: Connecting Communities & Generations through Sports,” will celebrate athletes and sp...