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  • The American War Experience Through California Voices: World War II

    Nov 14, 2019

    FREE JANM is pleased to partner with the Cal Poly Pomona Veterans Resource Center to present the second of two discussions about World War II as part of their special series, The American War Experience through California Voices. (Click on the RSVP link for details about the first discussion at Cal Poly Pomona on October 30.) These will be reading-based discussions based on Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D....

  • Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Live!

    Sep 23, 2017

    Free admission to JANM all day! In the spirit of the Smithsonian Museums, which offer free admission every day, JANM is once again offering FREE admission all day as part of the annual Museum Day Live! event.

  • Members Only Learning at Lunch: The George & Brad Takei Collection, Part 2

    Jun 03, 2017

    In September 2016, JANM was gifted with the George & Brad Takei Collection, a small portion of which formed the basis of the New Frontiers exhibition, on view through August 20. Bring your lunch and join JANM collections staff as they look at a selection of artifacts that did not make it into the show. Get an exclusive peek into George Takei’s remarkable life! Space is limited; RSVP by May 31 to memberev...

  • Staged Reading—"Nisei"

    May 27, 2017

    Created by Richard Allen and Eliot John Hagen and developed with the assistance of Koji Steven Sakai and Tim Southam, Nisei is a new TV pilot that follows Kenji Takagi, veteran of the WWII 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and his family after they’re released from the Tule Lake concentration camp in 1946. Join us for a staged reading in advance of the pilot’s production. Free with museum admission. RSVPs are reco...

  • JANM National Conference -- Speaking Up! Democracy, Justice, Dignity

    Jul 04, 2013 - Jul 07, 2013

    July 4-7, 2013 Join us in Seattle, WA for a National Conference commemorating the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 Online registration is now available. Check janm.org/conference2013 for information

  • kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa at Asia Society Texas Center (Houston, TX)

    Nov 09, 2012 - Apr 14, 2013

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION Asia Society Texas Center Houston, TX kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa is an exhibition of portraits by artist Kip Fulbeck, who traveled the country photographing more than 1,000 Hapa of all ages and walks of life. Originally a derogatory label derived from the Hawaiian word for half, the word Hapa has been embraced as a term of pride by many whose mixed-race heritage includes ...

  • A Vision Shared: Shoji Sadao and Allegra Fuller Snyder on Isamu Noguchi and R. Buckminster Fuller

    May 04, 2006

    Isamu Noguchi and R. Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller were two pivotal figures in 20th century art and design. Nisei, Shoji Sadao, director emeritus of the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, trustee of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation, and principal of architecture firm Fuller and Sadao, was introduced to Noguchi by Bucky Fuller when he was an architecture student at Cornell University. Founder, and first President, now Chairwoman o...

  • New Pavilion Designed By Architect Gyo Obata Opens January 23 At Japanese American National Museum In Los Angeles

    Jan 23, 1999

    The Japanese American National Museum, the premiere institution dedicated to sharing the Japanese American experience, opened its new Pavilion under the theme, "Celebrating the American Experience", with special ceremonies, performances, workshops, and a gala dinner that drew 35,000 people over four days in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo Historic District. Part of a $45-million expansion and development project, the 85,...

  • CALIFORNIA AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM, CHINESE AMERICAN MUSEUM, SELF HELP GRAPHICS TO JOIN JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM AS “FINDING FAMILY STORIES” PARTNERS

    Jan 01, 1999

    LOS ANGELES—The California African American Museum, the Chinese American Museum and Self Help Graphics & Art, Inc. have agreed to become participants in Finding Family Stories, a three-year arts partnership project organized by the Japanese American National Museum and funded in its second phase by the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. The three institutions will work with the Japanese American National Mus...

  • Eyewitness: Stan Honda

    Following the devastation of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001, photojournalist Stan Honda’s extraordinary images of dazed, dust-enveloped victims riveted the public’s attention to the covers and pages of national magazines and newspapers. Honda relates the aftermath of 9/11 to the unconstitutional incarceration by the U.S. government of Japanese Americans during World War II. His photographs of cam...