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Members Only Learning at Lunch: Itadakimasu

2018年12月01日

Bring your brown bag lunch and break bread with other members and JANM Collection staff during an exploration of delicious and historic foods and traditions. Learn more about JANM’s recent acquisition from Umeya Rice Cake Company, the famed Little Tokyo maker of senbei and arare, and explore menus and dining artifacts from America’s World War II concentration camps. Space is limited. RSVP by November 27 using...

Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Before They Were Heroes"

2015年07月25日

Join JANM Curator of History Lily Anne Yumi Welty Tamai, PhD, for an in-depth tour of the exhibition Before They Were Heroes: Sus Ito’s World War II Images. Limited to 25 participants. RSVP to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.

Target Free Family Saturdays: Print-astic!

2014年07月12日

FREE ALL DAY! Celebrate JANM’s groundbreaking exhibition Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World with tattoo and printmaking-inspired activities for the whole family! ALL DAY ACTIVITIES: Kids’ Print Shop: Etch fun designs into plastic foam and make prints out of them. Kids’ Tattoo Parlor: Use our special paper to create temporary press-on tattoos. Ruthie’s Origami Cor...

Bringing the Circle Together: Ghost Riders

2010年01月14日

Free Screening of Ghost Riders The Bigfoot Memorial Ride, an annual 300-mile journey on horseback, helps the Lakota Nation "wipe the tears" shed for the massacre of Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in 1896, and for more recent hardships. Participants convey the ride's spirit of sacrifice and remembrance, and the Lakota people's determination to build a better future. Guests for the night include the...

Asian New Media

2008年04月24日

Los Angeles Art Association is proud to present Asian New Media, a film screening and panel discussion featuring emerging Asian American video and media artists. Los Angeles’ important role in the contemporary art world is a byproduct of our diversity and proximity to the Pacific Rim. Asian New Media features a selection of emerging Asian American artists as they share their art and process. Short films by arti...

Giant Robot Biennale

2007年11月03日 - 2008年01月13日

Developed in collaboration with Eric Nakamura of Giant Robot and the Japanese American National Museum In celebration of its 50th issue and in collaboration with the Japanese American National Museum, the pop-culture magazine Giant Robot has assembled works by ten cutting-edge artists from around the country in Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues. Artists: APAK, Gary Baseman, David Choe, Seonna Hong, Sashie Masakat...

Fighting for Democracy Pre-Visit Workshop

2007年03月08日

Sign-up for a FREE Pre-Visit Workshop Thursday, March 8, 4:30-7:30 PM (Dinner provided) WHAT IS FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY? For hundreds of years people have sought a home and future in the United States of America. They came, and still come, in pursuit of freedom and democracy. Yet, the dream of democracy is not without its struggle. Against the backdrop of World War II, a segregated America, and the Civil Righ...

"Fat Man/Little Boy" Installation Viewing

2005年08月09日

Fat Man/Little Boy is an art piece that explores the events of the atomic bomb and the experiences of artist Clement Hanami's mother, who is a hibakusha, or atomic bomb survivor. The installation chronicles the fundamentals of the atomic bomb and its impact on a life's meaning and purpose. "Hanami's sprawling series of faux lab experiments asks you to consider, from multiple vantage points, the ways in which the F...

"Una Storia Segreta: A Discussion About the Italian American Internment and Evacuation During World War II"

2002年07月13日

Lecture and Book Signing Lawrence DiStasi?, editor of the recently published Una Storia Segreta: The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and Internment During World War II (Heyday Books: 2001), will discuss the little-known experience of the 600,000 Italian enemy aliens nationwide who were variously restricted, interned, and evacuated during the wartime. His remarks will give special emphasis to the experi...

Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World - Artists

Horitaka (Takahiro Kitamura) Exhibition Curator Horitaka is a tattoo artist as well as the author and publisher of numerous books on tattoo art and culture. His books include Bushido: Legacies of the Japanese Tattoo (Schiffer Publishing, 2001), Tattooing From Japan to the West (Schiffer Publishing, 2004), and Tattoos of the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Motifs in Japanese Tattoo (KIT Publishers, 2003). Horitaka is ...