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  • Time After Time Capsule Workshop with Kawaii Artist Sebastian Masuda

    Nov 01, 2016

    FREE (museum admission not included) Help kawaii artist Sebastian Masuda fill a gigantic Hello Kitty time capsule! Bring a cherished personal item or write a letter to your future self, which you will work on and decorate at the workshop before adding it to the capsule. Masuda is organizing a total of 10 translucent time capsules as part of a long-term art project that will culminate in Tokyo in 2020. The capsules...

  • Fighting for Democracy Pre-visit Workshop

    Apr 07, 2011

    Sign-up for a FREE Pre-Visit Workshop Thursday, April 7, 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM (Dinner provided) WHAT IS FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY? For hundreds of years people have sought a home and future in the United States of America. They came, and still come, in pursuit of freedom and democracy. Yet, the dream of democracy is not without its struggle. Against the backdrop of World War II, a segregated America, and the Civil...

  • "Mendez Vs. Westminster: For All the Children" by Sandra Robbie

    Feb 26, 2011

    Seven years before Brown v. Board of Education, Mendez vs. Westminster began the unraveling of school segregation in the U.S. Among many surprises, two key persons played important roles in both cases: NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall, who later argued and won Brown v. Board of Education; and then-Governor Earl Warren who signed the World War II internment order that sent 120,000 Japanese Americans to U.S. concentrat...

  • Fighting For Democracy at Bishop Museum (Honolulu, HI)

    Oct 16, 2010 - Jan 23, 2011

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION Bishop Museum Honolulu, HI About the Exhibition Through the diverse perspectives of seven ordinary citizens whose lives and communities were forever changed by World War II, this exhibition asks visitors to think critically about freedom, history, and, ultimately, the ongoing struggle to live democratically in a diverse America. Fighting For Democracy: Who is the “We” in “We, th...

  • The Artist’s Studio

    Jul 17, 2008

    Los Angeles Art Association and The Japanese American National Museum present: Lita Albuquerque’s Stellar Axis. An expansion of LAAA’s ongoing ArtSpeak programming, this special evening will feature a presentation of Albuquerque’s powerful site-specific art installation in Antarctica. Ms. Albuquerque is an internationally-renowned installationist, environmental artist, painter and sculptor. She is committed to develo...

  • kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa at NYU A/P/A Institute (New York, NY)

    Mar 10, 2008 - May 30, 2008

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University New York, NY 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 whos...

  • Awaken the Senses/Awaken the Writer

    Oct 06, 2007

    A Two-part Writing Workshop with Paula Panich What happens when you allow your senses to guide you? Let Paula Panich, journalist and author of Cultivating Words: The Guide to Writing about the Plants and Gardens You Love, awaken your inner writer by helping you find new ways of expressing what/how you see, smell, and touch. Writings focus on the seiryu-en or the Garden of the Clear Stream (the James Irvine Garden). ...

  • About Face: Artists Discuss Portraiture, Portrait-Making, and Identity

    Oct 29, 2006

    Closing of the exhibition kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa How are contemporary artists using portraiture and portrait-making processes to examine, reflect, and/or challenge constructions of identity? Kip Fulbeck and Los Angeles-based artists Shizu Saldamando and Jessica Shokrian gather to discuss the role of ethnicity, race, class, age, gender, and sexuality in shaping their work. The conversation promises t...

  • From Tokyo Rose to the Patriot Act: Propaganda and its Impact on Civil Liberties

    Apr 09, 2005

    In this third of five sessions, we continue our examination of selected propaganda artifacts displayed in the exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community featuring Dr. Mitchell T. Maki, Acting Dean, College of Health and Human Services at California State University, Los Angeles to reflect on propaganda prevalent during the resettlement era post-World War II. He will consider what lessons we can learn from the p...

  • Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo - Press

    For press inquiries, email mediarelations@janm.org or call 213.625.0414. Press Photo Gallery (Password Access Only—contact mediarelations@janm.org for access.)