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  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ONLY LOS ANGELES-BASED MUSEUM TO RECEIVE INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM & LIBRARY SERVICE GRANT

    Jan 01, 2000

    LOS ANGELES.—The Japanese American National Museum was the only Los Angeles-based museum to receive a General Operating Support grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and one of only 177 museums to earn this support from over 800 applications, the IMLS announced. The IMLS is a federal agency that supports the nation’s 15,000 museums and 112,000 libraries nationally. Its General Operating Su...

  • NATIONAL JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE, OLDEST ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION, DONATES ARCHIVES TO JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    Jan 01, 2000

    LOS ANGELES—The National Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), the oldest and largest Asian American civil rights and human rights organization in the country, announced that its National Board voted to donate its archives to the Japanese American National Museum, whose collection of material culture documenting the Japanese American experience is the largest in the world. The JACL was founded in 1929, partly ...

  • An American Diary

    Oct 08, 1999 - Jan 16, 2000

    Issei (first generation Japanese American) “picture bride” Toku Shimomura began a diary in 1912, the year of her immigration to the United States, and continued writing until her death in 1963. Her poignant observations, which chart her and her family’s experiences during the World War II incarceration in Puyallup, Washington and Minidoka, Idaho have inspired this series of paintings and prints created by her gran...

  • Re-Visioning Manzanar

    Sep 24, 1999 - Oct 07, 2001

    Manzanar, one of the ten War Relocation Authority concentration camps, has been the subject of multiple interpretations over the last fifty years. Culled from the permanent collection of the Japanese American National Museum, this exhibition also features work by Ansel Adams, Robert Hasuike, and Masumi Hayashi. New additions to this exhibition include the recent acquisition of American Families, a weaving by Nisei...

  • A Process of Reflection

    Jul 27, 1999 - Jan 30, 2000

    In May 1942, Issei artist Hisako Hibi (1907–1991) and her family were sent to U.S. concentration camps along with over 120,000 other Japanese Americans. An active artist in the Bay Area, Hibi continued to paint during her three years in the Topaz, Utah concentration camp. Her World War II incarceration paintings miraculously survived several decades, including a move to New York City and then to San Francisco. T...

  • Bruce and Norman Yonemoto

    Jan 23, 1999 - Jul 04, 1999

    This provocative exhibition surveys the film, video, and video installation art of Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Los Angeles-based, Sansei (third generation Japanese American) brothers who have worked collaboratively since 1976. The first comprehensive exhibition of their career, it includes a newly commissioned piece, Silicon Valley, which combines dramatic projection of archival film footage of the atomic bomb blas...

  • コモン・グラウンド

    Jan 23, 1999 - Jan 05, 2025

    この展覧会では、JANMの収蔵品からの数百点の物や資料、写真を交えながら、19世紀後半からの一世の移民に始まり、第二次世界大戦中の強制収容、戦後の再定住、リドレス運動に至るまでの日系アメリカ人の歴史を時系列で紹介しています。 展示している収蔵品の中でも特筆すべきは、ワイオミング州ハートマウンテン強制収容所で日系人らが暮らしていたバラックです。

  • Common Ground

    Jan 23, 1999 - Jan 05, 2025

    Incorporating hundreds of objects, documents, and photographs from JANM’s collection, this exhibition chronicles Japanese American history, beginning in the late 1800s with the early days of the Issei (first generation) pioneers and continuing through the World War II incarceration, post-war resettlement, and the redress movement. Among the many notable artifacts on display is a Heart Mountain barracks, an origin...

  • Irene Y. Hirano

    Jan 01, 1999

    In the thirteen years since the founding of the Japanese American National Museum, the Museum has grown from an innovative historical museum to an interdisciplinary, international institution dedicated to sharing and celebrating the history and culture of Japanese Americans with people of all backgrounds. To date, the Museum has assembled the world’s largest collection of Japanese American art and artifacts; organize...

  • Wartime Incarceration and the Life Course of Nisei Families

    Nov 21, 1998

    Ellis Island Immigration Museum Noted sociologist Dr. Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi will discuss her study on the long-term social and psychological effects of wartime incarceration on Japanese Americans. Funded by The Nathan Cummings Foundation.