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  • Conserving Culturally Specific Art Works: Conversations and Practice

    Apr 21, 2007

    A discussion around cultural conservation and preservation, this panel is in conjunction with the National Museum's NEA grant to support the conservation treatment of paintings by Benji Okubo, a Nisei artist who painted while incarcerated at Heart Mountain, Wyoming during World War II. Panelists includ Rushmore Cervantes, chief deputy controller -- City of Los Angeles and former general manager of El Pueblo de Los An...

  • "Mizuhiki" with Ryosen Shibata

    Apr 21, 2007

    Rescheduled Design elaborate knots using paper cords--the perfect accessory for decorating a card or gift for that special someone. $8 for National Museum members and $13 for non-members, includes supplies and Museum admission. Reservations recommended. Made possible, in part, by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.

  • Ruth Asawa and the Alvarado Art Workshop

    Apr 14, 2007

    Ruth Asawa started an art program at Alvarado Elementary School, the public school her children attended. Co-founded by Sally Woodbridge in 1968, the program included classes in sculpture, ceramics, drawing, mosaic, and painting, and was integrated into the school's curricula. Teachers and parents are invited to learn innovative ways of teaching art to children in an enlightening afternoon that includes a screening o...

  • 2007 Annual Gala Dinner and Silent Auction

    Apr 14, 2007

    U.S.-Japan Relations: Celebrating People-to-People Connections Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel Los Angeles, California 5:30 PM - Silent Auction and Reception 7:00 PM - Dinner and Program The bilateral relationship shared by the United States and Japan has been viewed historically by both nations as their most important, and the Japanese American National Museum is honored to recognize a select group of org...

  • Voices from Okinawa

    Apr 05, 2007

    A Staged Reading by East West Players' Writers Gallery Kama Hutchins, an American graduate student of one quarter Okinawan descent, teaches English in Okinawa and receives an unexpected education in Okinawan-American relations. From the author of Leilani's Hibiscus and Lucky Go Hawaii. Developing new work and introducing new talent is vital to the creative process at East West Players. Promising new scripts are p...

  • "Roar of the Tiger: The Legend of Tokyo Rose" by Glenn Conner-Johnson

    Mar 31, 2007

    With a story far more complex than that conveyed by the headlines, Iva Toguri D'Aguino (1916-2006) was maligned and imprisoned only to be exonerated and pardoned later in life. In a new play written by Glenn Conner-Johnson, acclaimed actress, Momo Yashima, portrays the erroneously identified "Tokyo Rose" whose actions still resonate in this time of "unlawful enemy combatants" and heated debates about habeas corpus. F...

  • "Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants" by Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain

    Mar 25, 2007

    Pure Beauty shows how racial and gendered meanings are enacted through the pageants, and reveals their impact on Japanese American men, women, and children. Now based in Ireland, King-O'Riain concludes that the mixed-race challenge to racial understandings of Japanese American-ness does not necessarily mean an end to race as we know it and asserts that race is work -- created and re-created in a social context. Book...

  • Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata

    Mar 24, 2007

    Punch Art Note Cards Why buy generic note cards when you can create your own? Design note cards with recycled hole punch confetti. $8 for National Museum members and $13 for non-members, includes supplies and Museum admission.

  • Barbara Kawakami on Issei Women and Textiles from the Plantation

    Mar 18, 2007

    Groundbreaking researcher, Barbara Kawakami, makes a rare visit to the National Museum for a conversation about the critical role Issei women played in shaping the socio-cultural life of pre-World War II Hawai`i. By "talking story" about women both remarkable and ordinary, Kawakami uses the treasure trove of textiles and oral histories found in her collection to shed light on the legacy of the Issei pioneers. Light r...

  • "Finding Family Stories" Arts Partnership Project Exhibit to Open in Three California Museums

    Jan 18, 1998

    The Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles; Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles; and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, present Finding Family Stories, (FFS) Arts Partnership Project, opening Thursday, January 22, 1998; Friday, January 30, 1998; and Friday, February 6, 1998, respectively. Initiated by the Japanese American National Museum in 1995 and funded in part by The James Ir...