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Origami with Ruthie Kitagawa: Summer Floral Cards

2018年06月23日

SOLD OUT FREE Learn to make a summery floral card. This workshop is free, but RSVPs are required using the link below. Limited to 25 participants. This workshop is sold out. To be placed on a waitlist, please email visitorservices@janm.org. This free workshop is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.

"Transpacific Borderlands" Artist Talk

2018年02月25日

On the closing day of Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo, join exhibition curator Clement Hanami and exhibiting artist Shinpei Takeda for a conversation on social representation and cultural context across borders. How do borderlands function as a space for exchanging ideas and culture? How do artworks take on new cultural and historical me...

Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Live!

2016年09月24日

Free admission to JANM all day! In the spirit of the Smithsonian Museums, which offer free admission every day, JANM is offering FREE admission all day as part of the annual Museum Day Live! event.

JANM Free Family Days: Protect Our Planet

2016年04月09日

FREE ALL DAY Join us for a day of fun activities to encourage everyone to "think green." ALL DAY ACTIVITIES: Make a Green Pledge stating what you can do to help the environment. Take home an instant photo of you and your pledge to help you remember it throughout the year. Create your own biodegradable planter, then plant a seed and take it home to watch it grow. Learn to fold paper cra...

Shibori Workshop with Indigo

2011年09月17日 - 2011年09月07日

Back from a month long trip to Japan to further Shibori Girl's study of silk, shibori, and indigo she has some great new stories and samples to share with you in addition to a wonderful little video presentation of the Arimatsu Shibori Festival. Yes! An annual festival devoted to shibori, past and present! She will also do some stitching (let's shibori stitch a dragonfly and drop it in the indigo vat), see some new t...

"American Tapestry" Member Preview & Reception

2010年11月12日

In celebration of the Japanese American National Museum’s 25th anniversary of incorporation, we invite our members to a Members’ Preview & Reception for American Tapestry: 25 Stories from the Collection. As part of the event, we will be introducing our new line of Generation Teas! Produced especially for the Museum by Chado Tea Room, come sample six special blends—Issei, Nisei, Sansei, Yonsei, Gosei, and a Museum ...

kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa at The Field Museum (Chicago, IL)

2010年04月02日 - 2010年09月12日

TRAVELING EXHIBITION The Field Museum Chicago, IL EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 12! kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa is an exhibition of portraits by artist Kip Fulbeck, who traveled the country photographing more than 1,000 Hapa of all ages and walks of life. Originally a derogatory label derived from the Hawaiian word for half, the word Hapa has been embraced as a term of pride by many whose mixed-rac...

Member Preview & Reception—Textured Lives

2010年02月27日

Textured Lives: Japanese Immigrant Clothing From the Plantations of Hawai'i Member Preview & Reception. In addition, we will have two very special performers: Herb Ohta, Jr. and Allison Arakawa performing during the reception. Herb Ohta, Jr. Teacher, composer, recording artist, entertainer, and producer, Herb Ohta, Jr. solidly establishes himself as one of Hawaii's most influential 'ukulele masters. He is a si...

From Bento to Mixed Plate

1998年03月14日 - 1999年01月03日

This exhibition traces the evolution of Japanese American identity in multicultural Hawai‘i as seen through the eyes of the first generation to the present. Americans of Japanese ancestry (AJAs) share their story through the use of personal artifacts, family photographs, and first-person accounts. Told from an AJA perspective the uniqueness of the Island culture is evident and is truly a story involving all of Haw...

"Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945" by Gordon Chang

1997年11月22日

Yamato Ichihashi was one of the first academics of Japanese ancestry in the United States. Gordon Chang, Associate Professor of History at Stanford University, will discuss the writings of Yamato Ichihashi writings from concentration camps during World War II. These wartime writings offer the first complete first-hand account of internment. Please join us for this book party in celebration of the Japanese American ...