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  • JANM to Celebrate Final Weeks of Core Exhibition Common Ground on November 23

    Nov 13, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will celebrate its longtime core exhibition, Common Ground: The Heart of Community, with an afternoon of festivities that highlight over 140 years of Japanese American history on Saturday, November 23, 2024, from 12 p.m.–5 p.m. PT. In honor of Common Ground, admission will be $6 ($5 seniors, $3 students and youth 6–17, free for JANM Members and children),...

  • JANM Questions the Rewriting of US History in National Archives Exhibition Plans

    Nov 04, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) questions the National Archive and Record Administration’s plan, as reported in the Wall Street Journal last week, to remove references to historical events—including Dorothea Lange’s photographs of Japanese American incarceration during World War II, the federal government’s displacement of indigenous tribes, and Martin Luther King Jr. marching for civil...

  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Chef Akira Hirose

    Oct 03, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA (October 3, 2024) – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of Chef Akira Hirose. Born and raised in Kyoto, Japan, Hirose trained in Azay-le-Rideau, France, as well as Maxim’s de Paris and under Joël Robuchon at the Nikko hotel. He first came to Los Angeles to work at the noted restaurant L’Orangerie. He and his wife Jo Ann Hirose opened a French restaurant in Kyoto, before ope...

  • 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...

  • Target Free Family Saturday: Wear This!

    Mar 13, 2010

    FREE ALL DAY! Enjoy a day of family fun at the National Museum. March’s theme is clothing. Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together. With additional support provided by the Mitsubishi International Corporation. ALL DAY CRAFT ACTIVITIES: Take a close look and explore the beautiful textiles in Texture...

  • 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...

  • Year of the Labbit Custom Show - Artist Interpretations

    In conjunction with the exhibition, Year of the Rabbit: Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo (July 9 – October 30, 2011), a gathering of artists (new and old friends of the Museum) worked their creative magic on Frank Kozik’s Happy Labbit toy. Check out the photos below to view the various artists’ interpretations. Usagi Yojimbo Stan Sakai Pasadena, CA Stan Sakai is best known as the artist creator of U...

  • Ireichō—Venues

    The Ireichō: Book of NamesTouring the United States 2025Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is honored to partner with The Irei Project and USC’s Duncan Ryuken Williams to travel The Ireichō: Book of Names in conjunction with pilgrimages to all ten former War Relocation Authority (WRA) concentration camps, to other Department of Justice (DOJ) and Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA) incarceration sites, a...