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A Life in Pieces: The Diary and Letters of Stanley Hayami - Store

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Miné Okubo’s Masterpiece: The Art of Citizen 13660 - Events

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Miné Okubo’s Masterpiece: The Art of Citizen 13660 - Press

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Miné Okubo’s Masterpiece: The Art of Citizen 13660 - Store

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Miné Okubo’s Masterpiece: The Art of Citizen 13660 - Miné Okubo

Tenacious and prolific, Japanese American artist Miné Okubo continued perfecting her art even as war intervened twice during the nascent years of her promising career. A native of Riverside, Calif., Okubo is acclaimed for Citizen 13660, a book of her 198 drawings revealing life inside a temporary Bay Area detention center and a Utah concentration camp where she was incarcerated with thousands of other Japanese ...

National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Fellowship

NCPD@JANM Fellowships The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy at the Japanese American National Museum (NCPD@JANM) and Asian Americans Advancing Justice–Los Angeles (Advancing Justice-LA) have selected two artists—Audrey Chan and jason chu—as its two artists in residence for 2022. They will develop new art projects that will explore the theme of anti-Asian hate and racism. Visual artist Chan and r...

What We Carried - Artist’s Statement

In 2007, I began interviewing returning soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I expected to hear chest thumping and Fox News-like talking points like “We are fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.” I heard none of that from the soldiers. I heard profound remorse and anger about their participation in U.S. interventions in the Middle East. Many of the vets have become radicals and an...

Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations (2022)

Learn about the intersection of history, culture, and community through a workshop from JANM and the National Endowment for the Humanities: “Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations."

SCHEDULE—2022 NEH Landmarks Little Tokyo Workshop

Scheduling information for “Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations," a NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop for teachers.