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2024 Holiday Member Appreciation Days

2024年11月29日 - 2024年12月01日

Come shop at the JANM Store during Member Appreciation Days and receive a 20% discount on qualified store purchases as an appreciation of thanks for all of your support and patronage!Not a current JANM Member? Join Now Order OnlineJANM will honor the 20% discount for online orders placed by current JANM Members at janmstore.com from November 29 – December 1, 2024. To receive the special discount, enter the code MADN...

JANM Volunteers Host Kokoro Craft Show on October 20, 2024

2024年10月04日

LOS ANGELES, CA (October 4, 2024)– Volunteers of the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will host the 2024 Kokoro Craft Show with over sixty vendors at the Museum on Sunday, October 20, 2022 from 10 a.m.–4 p.m.Kokoro is a Japanese word meaning heart, mind, and spirit. The first craft show was a volunteer-led fundraising event for JANM during a national economic downturn in 2009. Now in its sixteenth year, this ...

2024 Obata Art Weekend in Yosemite

2024年08月30日 - 2024年09月01日

Join JANM at Obata Art Weekend in Yosemite National Park and celebrate the extraordinary life of Japanese American artist Chiura Obata, including his watercolor and woodblock prints of Yosemite and his writings on “Great Nature.” This weekend will include artist workshops, guest speakers, ranger talks, interactive art, and a special exhibition of Obata’s Yosemite works.All are welcome at this event but advanced reser...

J. T. Sata Exhibition: Curator Tour with Dennis Reed and Robert Hori

2024年08月17日

Join exhibition curator Dennis Reed and Robert Hori, associate director of Cultural Programs at the Huntington, for a walkthrough of JANM’s exhibition, J. T. Sata: Immigrant Modernist. The exhibition comprises sixty photographs by J. T. Sata, photographs of Sata’s concentration camp paintings and drawings, and family artifacts from camp. Reed will talk about Sata’s photography and legacy as well as the process of cur...

"A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States" by Gordon K. Hirabayashi with James A. Hirabayashi and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

2013年09月21日

In 1942, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned. In A Principled Stand, Gordon's brother James and nephew Lane have brought together his prison diaries and wartime correspondence to tell the story of Hirabayashi v. United States. A Principled Stand tells Gordon's story in his own word...

"From Minidoka to Minnesota: A Carleton College Story of the Japanese American Internment" by Fred Hagstrom

2011年07月23日

This talk focuses on an artist’s book recently completed by Fred Hagstrom, Rae Schupak Nathan Professor of Art at Carleton College in Minnesota. The artist’s book is titled deeply honored and tells the story of Frank Shigemura, who came to Carleton College in 1943. Carleton participated in the student relocation project, a program that allowed Japanese American students to leave internment camps and continue th...

Poetry Reading and Slides of Art Quilts: What Remains: "Japanese Americans in Internment Camps"

2010年09月11日

Margaret Chula and Cathy Erickson make the concentration camp experience come alive in their seven-year collaborative project joining poetry and quilts. Margaret's original poems, diaries, and letters in the voices of people in the camps describe the hardships and emotions they experienced. Cathy has transformed personal stories into quilts through fabric, design, and color. Their presentation shows how two art forms...

Party on the Plaza: Celebrating the Opening of "kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa"

2006年06月10日

Join us for a Party on the Plaza! In celebration of the opening of kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa, enjoy a lively evening of DJ sets and spoken-word artists. Special evening book signing with Kip Fulbeck (Museum Store open until 8PM). Food vendors and no host bar. Spoken word artists include: Armando Alvarez Austin Cho Alison De La Cruz Melanie Hensch Jenille Narvaez Daniela Schonberger Mike T Micha...

2006 Day of Remembrance Theme ‘Claiming History: Justice Along Color Lines’ to Focus on 1930’s Mexican ‘Repatriation’, Current Campaign for Official Apology

2006年01月31日

At the 2006 Day of Remembrance, marking the anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 in 1942 which led to the unconstitutional incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry, the program will focus on the historic events surrounding the so-called Mexican "repatriation" of the 1930s in which federal, state and local governments conspired to remove over one million individuals of Mexican descent from...

Textured Lives: Japanese Immigrant Clothing from the Plantations of Hawai`i - Events

Programs are free for museum members and included with admission for visitors, unless otherwise noted. To see a complete listing of JANM’s upcoming programs, check out our Events Calendar.