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  • VC Film Fest at JANM

    May 01, 2024 - May 08, 2024

    Celebrate with Visual Communications as they present the 40th edition of the VC Film Fest (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival) from May 1 – 10, 2024. The festival is the premier showcase for the best and brightest of Asian Pacific cinema and has presented over 5,000 films, videos, and digital mediaworks by Asian and Pacific Islander artists since 1983. The 40th edition will feature a robust lineup of in-pers...

  • JANM Congratulates the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation on Being a New Smithsonian Affiliate

    Apr 09, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) congratulates the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation (HMWF) on being a new Smithsonian Affiliate. Established in 1996, the HMWF preserves the original site of the Heart Mountain concentration camp in northwestern Wyoming and tells the stories of over 14,000 people who were unjustly incarcerated there during World War II through its world-class museum, the ...

  • Author Discussion—"Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II" by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams

    Mar 03, 2018

    Featuring rarely seen photographs by Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Japanese American photographers employed by the US government, Un-American is an extensive documentation of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. The authors used key images from the National Archives and Library of Congress, and then tracked down many of the people in those photographs so that the subjects could share thei...

  • "Above the Fold" Artist Lecture: Origami as a Language of Contemporary Design

    Aug 20, 2016

    Exhibiting artist Paul Jackson will discuss the growing influence of origami in contemporary design practice, from fashion to architecture. Using examples from around the world and from his many years of teaching design, Jackson will demonstrate how, in recent years, origami principles have been applied to materials other than paper, such as fabric, leather, plastic, and wood. He will offer reasons for this interes...

  • Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty"

    Dec 06, 2014

    Join Christine Yano, PhD, co-curator of Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, for this exclusive gallery tour. Limited to 20 participants. RSVP to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646. This event has reached capacity; no additional reservations can be accepted.

  • Legacy of Japanese American Activism: Building an Intergenerational Community Movement

    Nov 05, 2011

    An intergenerational conference of Nikkei activists to take action around critical issues in the Japanese American community. Pre-registration & lunch (by Oct 31) is $5 and onsite registration & lunch is $10. To register or for more information, visit jalegacy2011.wordpress.com.

  • Point of Departure: Yuriko in Conversation with Mindy Aloff and Bonnie Rychlak

    Mar 12, 2006

    Isamu Noguchi and Martha Graham shared a respect for aesthetic clarity--organic movements, direct gestures--and their partnership resulted in Noguchi designing twenty-one sets for Graham's company. As one of Graham's principal dancers for over two decades, Yuriko has a degree of knowledge about Noguchi and Graham's collaborative efforts possessed by few others. Writer, scholar, and educator, Mindy Aloff, and the ...

  • "Letters to the Valley: A Harvest of Memories" by David Mas Masumoto

    Mar 20, 2005

    Sparked by an editor's comment that "creating a good column is like writing a letter to a friend," farmer and award-winning author David Mas Masumoto's column for the Fresno Bee is written in the form of letters. From the unique perspective of a farmer on a working farm, he talks about the deep concerns we all share dealing with change and trying to protect and preserve a way of life. Masumoto's farming and his commu...

  • Conscience, the Constitution and the Japanese American Draft Resistance of World War II

    Oct 27, 2001

    The emotion surrounding the issue of the Japanese American draft resistance during World War II may be better understood and appreciated by joining us in confronting a controversy that time has not put to rest. A panel moderated by Professor Arthur Hansen that includes Frank Abe, producer of the film Conscience and the Constitution; Professor Eric Muller of the University of North Carolina School of Law, author of Fr...

  • An Afternoon of Nagauta Shamisen Music and Dance

    May 19, 2001

    Featuring: Lillian Nakano, Fujima Ryusei, Tom Kurai and the Sanmi Ensemble (National Museum's shamisen class) The National Museum presents the eighth in a series of shamisen performances by California Arts Council recipients and National Museum resident artist Lillian Nakano. This program is made possible through funding from the California Arts Council. Free with National Museum admission.