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  • 2025 Benefit & Online Auction

    Apr 12, 2025

    Celebrate our critical past, dynamic present, and ambitious future in the heart of downtown Los Angeles at Unlocking the Future, JANM’s 2025 Benefit and Online Auction. Embark on a major renovation with us to amplify our stories, inspire a more just future, and honor the legacy of the Japanese American community.Enjoy a special live performance by Judith Hill and celebrate the legacies of inspirational community lead...

  • Defining Courage at UC Berkeley

    Apr 04, 2025

    Friday, April 4 • 8 p.m.University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley, CA Defining Courage is a journey into the legacy of the Nisei Soldier—Japanese Americans who served in the segregated units of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service, and 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. Produced and narrated by ABC7-Los Angeles news anchor and filmmaker David Ono, Defining Courage h...

  • JANM Announces Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Events

    Apr 18, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) welcomes Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a lively roster of events and exhibitions. Event details and tickets are available at janm.org/events and janm.org/democracy. Giant Robot Biennale 5 and J. T. Sata: Immigrant Modernist as well as the ongoing exhibitions Common Ground, and The Interactive StoryFile of Lawson Iichiro Sakai...

  • NCPD@JANM Announces the Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship for Emerging Writers of Color

    Mar 27, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy at the Japanese American National Museum (NCPD@JANM) announces the Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship (Yamamoto Fellowship). The Yamamoto Fellowship will be awarded to two emerging writers of color who have demonstrated commitment to writing about the art of communities of color and whose unique perspectives or points of view contribute to...

  • Two Day Workshop—The Wonderful World of Washi

    Oct 01, 2022 - Oct 02, 2022

    $64 members, $80 non-members. Plus $25 materials fee due to the instructor at the beginning of class (cash only). Limited to 12 participants. Explore the wonderful world of washi! In this class, participants will create unique washi and chigirie beads using a variety of Japanese paper craft techniques. Participants will then craft a necklace that combines their highly decorative washi beads with the subtle, monoch...

  • JANM PARTNERS WITH CONSULATE GENERAL OF JAPAN IN LOS ANGELES TO PRESENT THREE ‘A TASTE OF HOME’ PUBLIC PROGRAMS BEGINNING NOV. 15

    Nov 05, 2020

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum and the Consulate General of Japan in Los Angeles announced the introduction of a series of collaborative programs starting with a three-part series, “A Taste of Home,” with monthly online presentations focused on Japanese American food and its history. The inaugural program, “A Taste of Home: Building the Flavors of Japanese America,” is scheduled for Sunday, Nov...

  • Isamu Noguchi: Sculpture and the Elusive Sense of Belonging

    Feb 28, 2004

    Bert Winther-Tamaki will explore the specific sculptural initiatives at various points along Isamu Noguchi’s career—such as his portrait busts of New Yorkers in the 1920s, Japanese clay work in the 1950s, design of plazas for postwar American cities, and the rock abstractions of his late years—and look at them as a laboratory for mediating personal and cultural affiliations that were alternatively inspired and inhibi...

  • MOVING PICTURES: Toyo Miyatake

    Nov 24, 2002

    Little Tokyo's favorite son and legendary photographer Toyo Miyatake is the focus of this special program featuring the award-winning documentary, Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray, produced by the National Museum's Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, a screening of never-before-seen home movies taken by Miyatake and the opening of a new exhibit of Miyatake vintage prints. 2:00 pm: Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shad...

  • Masters of Modern Design

    The Art of the Japanese American Experience From the hand-drawn typeface on the book cover of The Godfather to Herman Miller’s biomorphic coffee table, the work of Japanese American artists/designers including Ruth Asawa, George Nakashima, Isamu Noguchi, S. Neil Fujita, and Gyo Obata permeated American postwar culture. While these second generation Japanese American artists have been celebrated, less-discussed is ...

  • Transpacific Borderlands Artist Profiles

    Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo examines the experiences of artists of Japanese ancestry born, raised, or living in either Latin America or predominantly Latin American neighborhoods of Southern California. In this series of short videos, artists featured in the exhibition discuss their work, their backgrounds, and their identities as Nikkei i...