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Giant Robot Workshop: Wooden Worlds with Yoskay Yamamoto

2024年05月11日

Join Giant Robot Biennale 5 exhibition artist, Yoskay Yamamoto, as he guides you through the process of designing and decorating your own recycled wood creations. Born and raised in Toba, Japan, Yoskay Yamamoto moved to the United States at the age of fifteen. A self-trained illustrator, Yamamoto blends pop iconic characters from his new Western home with traditional and mythical Japanese elements and balances his...

JANM Welcomes New Chief Impact Officer

2024年03月27日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) welcomes Kenyon Mayeda as the Museum’s new Chief Impact Officer. He will begin on April 1, 2024. Mayeda brings over twenty years of leadership, strategy, and institution-wide performance and impact to the Museum. He started his career as a JANM intern during the summer of 2004 and has since worked at the Japanese Community Youth Council, Cathay Bank, a...

JANM Announces New After-hours Artmaking Series Beginning March 21

2024年03月01日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces Asobi! at JANM, a new series from 7 p.m.–9 p.m. on selected Thursdays where local artists showcase their unique work through interactive demonstrations and every guest goes home with a new art piece and sense of accomplishment. Admission is $10 (Members: free). Visitors can learn how to make art, mingle with old and new friends, and try somet...

VIP/Upper Level Members Opening Reception: "Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty"

2014年10月10日

JANM members at the Sustaining Level and above are invited to join Sanrio and the artists and curators for the VIP Opening of Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty.

Japanese and American Cultural Aspects of the Japanese American Experience. Lecture by Professor Art Sakamoto

2012年07月28日

The cultural heritages of Japan and the U.S. are in many ways very different. Japanese society has traditionally emphasized collectivism while American society has long promoted individualism. Being socially situated in the middle of two contrasting societal traditions, Japanese Americans often encounter a great deal of cultural conflict in their personal lives. This lecture will explore these issues using illustrati...

Summer Film Festival: "Harsh Canvas: The Art and Life of Henry Sugimoto"

2009年06月18日 - 2009年06月28日

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, the National Museum will continuously screen Harsh Canvas: The Art and Life of Henry Sugimoto. From Japan to California, on to Paris, then to concentration camps in Arkansas that transformed his art forever and finally to New York, Henry Sugimoto (1900-1990) pursued what he called, “the path of an artist.” Sugimoto’s recently translat...

Bringing the Circle Together: A Native American Film Series -- Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

2008年06月19日

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki) exposes the armed confrontation between Mohawks and Canadian government during the 1990 standoff in Kanehsatake near the village of Oka in Quebec. Her portrait of the resistance focuses on the human dimension of the conflict, exploring their conviction and communal spirit that enabled them to stand firm. Music by Jamie Coon (Creek/Seminole) to open the ...

Opening of the exhibition "Landscaping America: Beyond the Japanese Garden"

2007年06月17日

Gardens were among the first forms of Japanese culture to gain popularity in the United States. Since their introduction to the American public at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Japanese-style gardens have proliferated across the country. Landscaping America reveals the personal stories, historical journeys, communities, and creativity that underlie the surface of the "Japanese garden." This multi...

"Peaceful Painter Hisako Hibi: Memoirs of an Issei Woman Artist"

2004年12月05日

Ibuki Hibi Lee compiled a selection of her mother's journal notes and art, which offer an insight into the daily life of a woman who would not abandon her art or betray her spirit. Kristine Kim, director of Program Initiatives, will talk about Hisako Hibi's life. From her days as an art student in Japan, to her role as an art instructor in the Topaz Concentration camp, and finally as a celebrated painter in San Franc...

Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami - Events

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