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  • Two Day Workshop: Practical Cloth Making

    Jan 25, 2025 - Jan 26, 2025

    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 ...

  • Honoring Common Ground

    Nov 23, 2024

    Enjoy an afternoon of celebration and activities honoring JANM’s core exhibition, Common Ground: The Heart of Community, that highlights over 140 years of Japanese American history. The afternoon will feature natsukashii (nostalgic) music, a souvenir photo booth, docent-led tours, and a chance for visitors to contribute to our community memory archive booth. The core exhibition has been the center of the Museum for t...

  • ARTIST RUTH ASAWA, WHOSE LIFE, WORK RECOGNIZED BY JANM, HONORED BY U.S. POSTAL SERVICE WITH STAMPS OF HER WIRE SCULPTURE

    Aug 10, 2020

    Los Angeles, CA – The late artist Ruth Asawa, whose work and life have been documented by the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), will be recognized by the United States Postal Service (USPS) by presenting her distinctive wire sculpture on a series of Forever stamps at a special virtual unveiling on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. EDT. The virtual stamp event will be hosted on the USPS Facebook and Twitte...

  • YASUO KUMODA, KNOWN AS 'MR. TOFU', TO DISCUSS CHALLENGE OF POPULARIZING TOFU IN U.S.

    Mar 10, 2012

    Yasuo Kumoda, whose autobiography is entitled They Call Me Mr. Tofu, will make a presentation on the challenges of convincing Americans on the health benefits of eating tofu at a free Tateuchi Public Programs set for the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, March 17, beginning at 1 p.m. Besides the presentation, there will be a product demonstration and free samples will be provided. Kumoda had started a...

  • Fred T. Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution: Forum for Educators

    Jan 06, 2011

    California Assemblymembers Warren Furutani and Marty Block authored Assembly Bill 1775, which establishes January 30 as Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution to encourage schools across the state to teach students about Fred Korematsu’s story and its relevance in today’s post-9/11 environment. The first Fred Korematsu Day will be celebrated on January 30, 2011, on Fred Korematsu’s birthday. Ka...

  • Fresh Words & Actions: Cold Tofu's The Soy of Sex

    Feb 26, 2004

    Is there really a weaker sex? Why can't people commit to relationships? Why is dating and finding love so difficult? Join us as Cold Tofu searches for the answers to these questions and more at The Soy of Sex. It's the show where Cold Tofu explores love, relationships, and the opposite sex through improvisation. Cold Tofu is dedicated to promoting diverse images of Asian Pacific Americans through comedy and to dev...

  • Sights Unseen: The Photographic Constructions of Masumi Hayashi, May 31 - September 14, 2003

    May 31, 2003

    The Japanese American National Museum will present the first survey of the work by Japanese American photographer Masumi Hayashi in the exhibition Sights Unseen: The Photographic Constructions of Mayumi Hayashi, opening May 31, 2003. The exhibition includes 30 photographs that explore bucolic landscapes, and the unseen reality just below the surface. The photocollages come from five bodies of Hayashi’s work—abandon...

  • UCLA Extension One-Day Program: Boyle Heights: The Power of Place

    Oct 05, 2002

    This one-day program brings together a panel of curators, designers, educators, and scholars to discuss the history and transformation of Boyle Heights, a longtime gateway for newcomers to Los Angeles. In addition, curators guide students through the exhibit's artifacts, photographs, original artwork, and interactive environments which present a multivocal interpretation of the neighborhood. Participants will also vi...

  • From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai`i

    Oct 28, 1997

    The exhibition explores the evolution of Japanese American identity in Hawai`i from the first to the present generation. Through personal artifacts, family photographs and first-person accounts, the role of Japanese Americans in sports, labor, education, religion, politics, and business is explored as arenas of sharing and adaptation in our Island society. When Japanese immigrants first worked on Hawai`i’s sug...

  • Institute Of Museum Services Awards $112,500 Grant To Japanese American National Museum

    Apr 24, 1997

    The Japanese American National Museum was awarded a $112,500 General Operating Support Grant by the Institute of Museum Services (IMS), a Federal agency that strengthens museums to benefit the public. The Museum was one of 953 institutions nationally to apply for grant money. Out of those applicants, 192 received awards totaling over $15 million. Those institutions that qualified have demonstrated outstanding pe...