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  • Members Only Exhibition Tour: "hapa.me – 15 years of the hapa project"

    Jul 07, 2018

    SOLD OUT Join exhibition creator Kip Fulbeck for a gallery tour of hapa.me. Space is limited to 25 participants. This tour is sold out. To be placed on a waitlist, please contact memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.

  • Community Day of Remembrance—Is It 1942 Again? Overcoming Our Fears and Upholding Constitutional Rights for All

    Feb 20, 2016

    PAY WHAT YOU WISH On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, making it possible for the U.S. military to forcibly remove and incarcerate 120,000 Japanese Americans solely on the basis of race. Each year, communities across the country hold Day of Remembrance programs to recall this shameful chapter in U.S. history and honor the courage and perseverance of the Japanese A...

  • From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami. A Lecture by Robert Lang

    May 26, 2012

    This program is FREE! The last decade of this past century has been witness to a revolution in the development and application of mathematical techniques to origami, the centuries-old Japanese art of paper-folding. The techniques used in mathematical origami design range from the abstruse to the highly approachable. In this talk, I will describe how geometric concepts led to the solution of a broad class of origami...

  • Exhibition and Performance: Visual artist Mineko Grimmer and music of composer John Cage

    Mar 03, 2012 - Mar 04, 2012

    Saturday, March 3 at 8 PM Sunday, March 4 at 5 PM Each of the works, entitled One6 and One10, is an extended composition for solo violin. Written to be performed with a specific kinetic sound sculpture created by the visual artist. Part of Southwest Chamber Music’s Cage 2012, a three-year centennial celebration of the work of this seminal Los Angeles-born composer, whose music and thought were highly influential i...

  • A Reading of "No-No Boy " by Ken Narasaki

    Oct 31, 2009

    Playwright and actor Ken Narasaki adapts John Okada’s story of Ichiro Yamada as he returns home from prison and struggles to come to terms with his decision to not join the U.S. Army. Read "Tackling No No Boy" by Ken Narasaki on DiscoverNikkei.org to learn more about this play >>

  • Summer Film Festival: "Bento to Mixed Plate: Politics of Plate Lunch"

    Jul 02, 2009 - Jul 12, 2009

    To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, the National Museum will continuously screen Bento to Mixed Plate: Politics of Plate Lunch. Politics of Plate Lunch is a penetrating yet tender look beneath the “island paradise” stereotype to explore the inter-ethnic and generational complexities of contemporary Hawai‘i. 20 min. This special showing will be screened at the Tera...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM PRESENTS TOSHIKO TAKAEZU: THE ART OF CLAY AUG. 6-NOV. 27

    Aug 04, 2005

    The Japanese American National Museum presents Toshiko Takaezu: The Art of Clay beginning August 6, 2005, the first solo exhibition of an artist known for delving into the expressive nature of clay, explorations of closed forms, and innovative painterly glazes. The exhibition features recent works by Takaezu including her signature creation of closed-mouth "pots" which act as three-dimensional canvases; spherical Moo...

  • Fresh Words and Action: "The Abduction of Lady Wen Chi"

    May 22, 2003

    Performing Arts Series Held Every Fourth Thursday Text, lyrics and music by Mimi Seton; additional music by James Peterson The Abduction of Lady Wen Chi is Mimi Seton's imaginative re-working of a Chinese tale of an upper-class girl, educated in Confucianism, but still unworldly, who is violently kidnapped by H'siung Nu nomads at the end of the Han Dynasty. Her journey through 15 years in the desert—from naive gi...

  • Boyle Heights: The Power of Place—Stories

    Explore accompanying materials produced for the exhibition: Watch a documentary produced by JANM’s Watase Media Arts Center for the exhibition. Watch a retrospective Q&A presented virtually in 2020, with exhibition/documentary producers and curators Sojin Kim and Claudia Sobral; along with Chicano Artivista Quetzal Flores; musician, writer, and producer Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara; and JANM VP of Exhibitions and...

  • The Life and Work of George Hoshida: A Japanese American’s Journey—Jerome

    1943–1944 The concentration camp at Jerome had no guards in the watchtowers because, unlike most of the other concentration camps, it was surrounded by swamps infested with poisonous snakes. Hoshida’s wife, Tamae, had “voluntarily evacuated” to the mainland with the hope that she could be reunited with her husband. In the middle of winter, two months after the birth of their youngest daughter, Tamae traveled from ...