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  • Two-Day Workshop: Shibori On! Continuing Explorations in "Shibori" and Indigo

    Mar 24, 2018 - Mar 25, 2018

    SOLD OUT Saturday–Sunday, March 24–25 11 a.m.–4 p.m. In this two-day workshop, continue working with indigo and shibori dyeing using a broad selection of beautiful fabrics, both vintage and unique. Shibori techniques of itajime, arashi, nui, and more will be practiced with both new and continuing students. Participants will also dye threads for stitching and explore some of the things that can ...

  • Author Discussion—"Taken from the Paradise Isle" by Heidi Kim

    Jan 09, 2016

    George and Tamae Hoshida and their children were a Japanese American family who lived in Hawai‘i. In 1942, George was arrested as a "potentially dangerous alien" and incarcerated in a series of camps over the next two years. Tamae sought to reunite with George, and was eventually sent to the Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas with her three of her daughters, including a newborn. She was forced to leave her handic...

  • Good-bye, "Hello!" Complimentary Breakfasts

    May 31, 2015

    Saturdays, May 9, 16, 23, 30 Sundays, May 10, 17, 24, 31 Make the most of your membership privileges! JANM members are invited to celebrate the final month of Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty with free light refreshments, served during exclusive members’ viewing hours.

  • "Lament in the Night" by Shoson Nagahara

    Feb 23, 2013

    This event is free! In 1925, writer Shōson Nagahara serialized tales of Japanese immigrants in the Rafu Shimpo. For the first time, Kaya Press has published an English translation of Nagahara’s stories about Little Tokyo’s down-and-out denizens. In Lament in the Night, we meet itinerant day laborer Sazuko Ishikawa as he prowls the back alleys and bathhouses of Los Angeles looking for a meal or a job, or just som...

  • "Honor Thy Children" by Al and Jane Nakatani

    Sep 24, 2011

    FREE! Al and Jane Nakatani, presently living in Maui, lost all three of their sons. In their book, Honor Thy Children, they tell the story of how two died of AIDS, and the other was murdered. They will relate their inspiring story of reconciliation.

  • So Easily Lost, Too Nearly Forgotten: Pre-War Japanese American Photographers

    Oct 23, 2010

    Little Tokyo was home to a group of art photographers whose works were exhibited and published worldwide during the 1920s and 1930s. Sadly most of their photographs were lost or destroyed during the forced relocation of Japanese Americans. Professor Dennis Reed began searching for these lost photographs 30 years ago, a hunt he detailed earlier this year on National Public Radio’s The Story. He will discuss the pho...

  • One Way or Another

    Feb 10, 2008 - May 04, 2008

    One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, a traveling exhibition organized by the Asia Society, brings together seventeen artists from across the United States who challenge and extend the category of Asian American art. The title of the exhibition, drawn from the 1978 Blondie hit song, suggests a non-formulaic way of making or seeing art. The artists and their works characterize the freedom to choose, manipulate a...

  • Ansel Adams at Manzanar

    Nov 11, 2006 - Feb 18, 2007

    Ansel Adams at Manzanar, organized by the Honolulu Academy of Arts, includes over 50 vintage prints from the collections of the Library of Congress, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and the Japanese American National Museum. From 1943 to 1944, Ansel Adams made a number of trips to Manzanar concentration camp, located in California's Inyo County to the east of th...

  • Behold The Many by Lois-Ann Yamanaka

    Feb 11, 2006

    Lois-Ann Yamanaka's new work melds culture and spirituality into the story of a young girl attempting to escape the haunting legacy of her two sisters. Acclaimed author of Father of the Four Passages (2001, Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Yamanaka illustrates a brutal tale of love and loss, life and death in the Kahili Valley on the island of O'ahu.

  • Lasting Beauty

    Feb 06, 2005 - Jul 24, 2005

    Art teacher Mabel Rose Jamison wrote, “a good painting is a thing of lasting beauty” in testament to the ambitious mural project undertaken by eight of her students at Rohwer High School. At any school during any time period, such a project would require a teacher of immense dedication, and students with profound maturity and skill. What makes the story of these murals particularly extraordinary is that it took place...