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  • Exhibition Tour of BeHere / 1942 with artist Masaki Fujihata

    May 19, 2022

    FREE Join Masaki Fujihata, the visionary Japanese media artist behind BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration, for a guided tour of JANM’s newest exhibition. Photo credit: Jim Conner

  • Tea & Letter Writing: Letters of Warmth

    Dec 09, 2020

    $10 suggested donation Gather with us in the comfort of your own home to share tea and conversation! As winter settles in, we will be writing letters of compassion and support to those currently incarcerated in Otay Mesa Detention Center in Southern California and spending some time in personal reflection. Prompts will be provided by special guests and traci kato-kiriyama, former Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Reside...

  • GIANT ROBOT BIENNALE RETURNS TO JANM FOR FOURTH INSTALLMENT

    Aug 31, 2015

    The Japanese American National Museum will open Giant Robot Biennale 4, its fourth exhibition in collaboration with Giant Robot founder, Eric Nakamura, on October 11, 2015. This edition of the popular series, first presented in 2007, will examine the evolution of the Giant Robot aesthetic from its humble origins in drawing to its many celebrated manifestations in painting, installation, muralism, and photography. T...

  • Before They Were Heroes

    Jul 14, 2015 - Sep 06, 2015

    Before They Were Heroes: Sus Ito’s World War II Images is the inaugural exhibition in Sharing Our Stories, a new series of exhibitions drawn from JANM’s extensive permanent collection. A celebration of the donation by Susumu “Sus” Ito of his vast archive of photographs and negatives taken while on duty during World War II, Before They Were Heroes gives the public a rare and breathtaking look at the daily lives of the...

  • SCHOLAR MICHIKO AYUKAWA TO DISCUSS PICTURE BRIDES COMING TO CANADA ON MAY 30

    May 18, 2010

    Japanese Canadian scholar Dr. Michiko Midge Ayukawa will provide insight into the history of Japanese "Picture Brides" and their contributions to their communities at a public program set for Sunday, May 30, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. While picture brides arrived in significant numbers in the early 20th Century in both the United States and Canada, Dr. Ayukawa exa...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM TO UNVEIL 'TEXTURED LIVES' EXHIBITION ON FEB. 27

    Feb 25, 2010

    The Japanese American National Museum will premiere its latest exhibition, Textured Lives: Japanese Immigrant Clothing from the Plantations of Hawai`i, representing the beautiful and historically important textiles and clothing collected and documented by scholar and author Barbara Kawakami, on Saturday, February 27, and running through May 30, 2010. This exhibition is part of the National Museum’s 25th Anniversar...

  • EDITORS ROBINSON, CREEF TO DISCUSS MINE OKUBO ANTHOLOGY MARCH 7

    Mar 03, 2009

    A special presentation of excerpts from the new anthology, Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road, will be presented by the book’s editors, Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef, at a public program set for Saturday, March 7, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. The anthology is an examination of the life and works of artist Mine Okubo (1912-2001), a pioneering Nisei artist and ...

  • 'NEGLECTED LEGACIES' SERIES CONCLUDES WITH 'SEEKING JUSTICE' PROGRAM AUG. 2

    Jul 24, 2008

    The series, "Neglected Legacies: Japanese American Women and Redress", a collaboration between UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center and the Japanese American National Museum, concludes with its third public program, "Seeking Justice" set for Saturday, August 2, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum. This program will feature Karen Kai, Grace Shimizu and Professor Diane Fujino with the series or...

  • LIVING FLOWERS: IKEBANA AND CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBIT TO OPEN JUNE 15

    May 09, 2008

    The Japanese American National Museum will premiere its latest exhibition, Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art, an innovative presentation that brings together representations of three traditional schools of ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) with the works of international contemporary artists such as Isamu Noguchi, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sherrie Levine and Judy Fiskin, beginning on Sunday, June 15, and con...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM SETS NATIONAL CONFERENCE, "WHOSE AMERICA? WHO'S AMERICAN?"

    Oct 02, 2007

    As part of its year-long commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the signing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which provided an official apology and reparations to thousands of Japanese Americans unconstitutionally displaced by the U.S. government during World War II, the Japanese American National Museum’s Enduring Communities: The Japanese American Experience in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Utah pro...