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JANM Congratulates Trustee Stephen Kagawa
2024年05月02日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) congratulates JANM Trustee Stephen Kagawa, who recently received the Will G. Farrell Public Service Award from the Los Angeles chapter of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA-Los Angeles). A NAIFA-Los Angeles member since 1986, Kagawa connects finance professionals in insurance, investing, banking, tax, and law to ethnic...
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JANM Congratulates June Kuramoto, 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellow
2024年03月18日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) applauds June Kuramoto who is a recipient of the 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellow. Since 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has presented this award—the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts—to recognize individuals whose dedication and artistry contribute to the growth and preservation of diverse cultural traditions in the...
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"Transforming the Commonplace": Curator Daniell Cornell talks about the life and legacy of Ruth Asawa
2007年03月11日
Organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air is a brilliant retrospective of the artist's richly varied career. A Nisei who was incarcerated in Rohwer Concentration Camp, Asawa went on to become a highly influential figure in the history of American modernism and is recognized nationally for her activism in arts education. Daniell Cornell, Associate Curator of ...
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Annual Giving Circle Members Reception for opening of Ansel Adams at Manzanar
2006年11月12日
A special reception for Annual Giving Circle Members celebrating the opening of Ansel Adams at Manzanar. By invitation only. Learn more about Annual Giving Circle Membership
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Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: New Year's Sumi-e (Year of the Horse)
2002年01月26日
Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: New Year's Sumi-e (Year of the Horse)
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The Forgotten War: The Impact of the Korean War on Japanese Americans and their Community
2000年04月29日
Featuring: Hiroshi "Hershey" Miyamura, Charles Kubokawa, Norman Y. Mineta, Vince Okamoto, Judge Taketsugi Takei, Robert Wada, and host Mitchell T. Maki The Korean War is often referred to as the "Forgotten War" and yet its impact upon Japanese Americans would change the community forever. This discussion will explore the complicated issues associated with the Korean War and its social impact on society, sp...
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JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ONLY LOS ANGELES-BASED MUSEUM TO RECEIVE INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM & LIBRARY SERVICE GRANT
2000年01月01日
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...
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"Kenjiro Nomura: An Artist's View of the Japanese American Internment" exhibition opens October 4, 1997
1997年09月25日
The Japanese American National Museum opens a new exhibit, Saturday, October 4, 1997. Kenjiro Nomura: An Artist’s View of the Japanese American Internment highlights the images created by artist Kenjiro Nomura while he was incarcerated in the Minidoka concentration camp in Hunt, Idaho. Already an established and prolific artist when he and his family were forcibly removed from their home in Seattle and placed in Mi...
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Whispered Silences: Japanese American Detention Camps, Fifty Years Later Photographs Document Remains Of Wartime Experience
1997年05月03日
Whispered Silences: Japanese American Detention Camps, Fifty Years Later, opens Saturday, May 3, 1997 at the Japanese American National Museum. Part of the Shithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service (SITES), the Museum is one stop in the exhibit’s North American tour. Fourty-four contemporary platinum-palladium prints were taken by photographer Joan Myers and evoke the wartime experiences of Japanese ...
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Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty - Venues
Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty originated at the Japanese American National Museum and was on display October 11, 2014 – May 31, 2015. TRAVELING EXHIBITION Past Venue EMP Museum November 14, 2015 – May 15, 2016 Seattle Center 325 5th Avenue N Seattle, WA 98109 Web: empmuseum.org Phone: 206.770.2700