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  • Two Day Workshop: Shibori and Indigo Explorations

    Nov 09, 2024 - Nov 10, 2024

    Unleash your creativity with indigo and shibori! Taught by Glennis Dolce, this workshop will explore traditional Japanese fabric dyeing techniques, including stitching, clamping, binding, and pole wrapping. Various shibori techniques will be presented and practiced—arashi, nui, itajime, yanagi, tekumo, and more!This workshop is limited to fifteen participants and is open to all levels of knowledge. All tools and a ma...

  • THE JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM TO OPEN NEW EXHIBITION AUGUST 28 “MINÉ OKUBO’S MASTERPIECE: THE ART OF CITIZEN 13660” THAT INCLUDES ARTWORK FOR THE 1946 BOOK SHOWN FOR THE FIRST TIME

    Aug 20, 2021

    LOS ANGELES – On the 75th anniversary of its publication, the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will open a new exhibition, “Miné Okubo’s Masterpiece: The Art of Citizen 13660.” This groundbreaking memoir of nearly 200 illustrations, is an insider’s view of the World War II incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans – the first book-length account of America’s concentration camps by a former incarc...

  • Coming Out and Coming Home: Documenting the Voices of Queer and Trans Japanese Americans

    Sep 26, 2020

    PAY-WHAT-YOU-WISH $10 suggested donation The Japanese American community has not always broadly welcomed gay, transgender, and queer Nikkei people. It took courage for LGBTQ+ Nikkei to live openly and with integrity in decades past. Hear from four LGBTQ+ Japanese Americans who are forerunners of making Nikkei communities more accepting: Melvin Fujikawa, Gary Hayashi, Bill Tashima, and Mia Yamamoto. They will ...

  • Two-Day Workshop: Indigo, "Shibori", and the Making of an Offering Bag

    Oct 19, 2019 - Oct 20, 2019

    Saturday–Sunday, October 19–20 11 a.m.–4 p.m. (both days) The first day of this two-day workshop will focus on indigo and shibori dyeing of recycled fabrics and threads. These will then be used the following day to make a replica of a komebukuro, or offering bag. These bags, in which offerings were taken to the local temple, were originally made from either scraps of leftover and reusable household text...

  • CANCELLED: Jewelry Workshop—The World of "Washi": Intermediate Class

    Jul 21, 2018 - Jul 22, 2018

    THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Saturday–Sunday, July 21–22 11 a.m.–4 p.m. This intermediate class is recommended for students who have already taken at least one of the beginning washi workshops. Participants will make a necklace and matching earrings with wooden beads made of two different but complementary washi papers and semi-precious commercial beads. Techniques will include washi-wrapping, c...

  • Shibori Fusion: Techniques of Yesterday and Today

    Jan 24, 2015 - Jan 25, 2015

    This program is sold out. Saturday–Sunday, January 24–25, 11:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. In this two-day workshop led by Shibori Girl (Glennis Dolce), participants will use various resist dyeing techniques on silks, including recycled kimono silks, to create a fabric collection and a scarf. Stitching, wrapping, clamping, and binding will be covered. Samples and books will be on hand for inspiration. New and ret...

  • Camera in Camp: Bill Manbo's Photographs of Heart Mountain

    Aug 30, 2014

    Historian Jasmine Alinder will give a lecture on photography and Japanese American incarceration that will feature the work of Bill Manbo who was imprisoned in Heart Mountain. Alinder will place Manbo's rare color photographs in the context of work by other famous photographers of that time including Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Carl Iwasaki. Alinder is author of Moving Images: Photography and ...

  • Breaking Silences: Uncovering Memories of Japanese American Imprisonment

    Mar 15, 2014

    In this intergenerational reading, Sansei poet and editor, Brian Komei Dempster, will discuss his community-based writing projects and anthologies, in which Japanese Americans—mostly Nisei—tell their stories of wartime incarceration and post-war resettlement. Dempster will also read poems from his debut collection, Topaz, which looks at the legacy of the camp experience and its impact on younger generations. Joini...

  • ‘DESIRE FOR MAGIC: PATRICK NAGATANI’ EXHIBITION REFLECTS 30 YEARS OF WORK

    Nov 12, 2011

    The Desire for Magic: Patrick Nagatani exhibition will open at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, November 19, 2011, presenting 30 years of varied work by artist Patrick Nagatani, including his collaborations, staged photographs, collages and multimedia pieces. Created by the University of New Mexico’s University Art Museum and curator Michele Penhall in 2008, Desire for Magic represents Nagatani’s wi...

  • Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Spoken Word Program

    Aug 09, 2005

    The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will forever remain an object of deep reflection. To mark the 60th anniversary of those fateful days, the National Museum's Art Director, Clement Hanami, installs his stirring work, Fat Man/Little Boy in the Aratani Central Hall. The day will end with spoken word performances and messages of peace.