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JANM to Celebrate Final Weeks of Core Exhibition Common Ground on November 23

2024年11月13日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will celebrate its longtime core exhibition, Common Ground: The Heart of Community, with an afternoon of festivities that highlight over 140 years of Japanese American history on Saturday, November 23, 2024, from 12 p.m.–5 p.m. PT. In honor of Common Ground, admission will be $6 ($5 seniors, $3 students and youth 6–17, free for JANM Members and children),...

JANM Mourns the Passing of Gary Y. Okihiro

2024年05月29日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of renowned author and scholar, Gary Y. Okihiro. He was a visiting professor of American studies at Yale University, professor emeritus of international and public affairs at Columbia University, and founding director of Columbia’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. “Okihiro’s work was instrumental to and deeply valued by J...

JANM Digital Film Festival Premiere: Our Man in Tokyo (The Ballad of Shin Miyata)

2020年05月08日

Join us as we dive into films produced by the Japanese American National Museum’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center! We will be releasing a selection of films, some for a limited time only. Organize a (virtual) screening party with your friends or family or just get cozy and enjoy the JANM Digital Film Festival from the safety of your own home. We will also have Q&A sessions with the filmmakers and others involved in...

Film Screening, Q&A, and Reception—"Masters of Modern Design"

2019年05月09日

FREE From the hand-drawn typeface on the cover of The Godfather to Herman Miller’s biomorphic coffee table, the work of Japanese American designers including Ruth Asawa, George Nakashima, Isamu Noguchi, S. Neil Fujita, and Gyo Obata permeated postwar culture. While these second generation Japanese American artists have been celebrated, less-discussed is how their World War II incarceration—a period of intense hard...

ZÓCALO—What Does the Life of Frederick Douglass Tell Us About America?

2018年11月29日

A Smithsonian/ASU "What It Means to Be American" Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Moderated by Baratunde Thurston, cultural critic, comedian, and author of How to Be Black American icon Frederick Douglass died in 1895, but he still makes the news. Indeed, he represents an increasingly rare sort of hero—one whose story is invoked across the political spectrum. Perhaps t...

ANN BURROUGHS ELECTED CHAIR OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S GLOBAL COUNCIL

2018年08月15日

Los Angeles, CA—Ann Burroughs, President and CEO of the Japanese American National Museum, has been named Chair of Amnesty International’s Global Council, the organization’s highest decision-making body that brings together human rights leaders from over 70 countries. “Ann has been a transformative leader of the Japanese American National Museum since joining us 2016. She has long been involved with Amnesty Intern...

NEW JANM EXHIBITION TO FEATURE ORIGINAL EXECUTIVE ORDER AUTHORIZING WWII INCARCERATION OF JAPANESE AMERICANS, ON LOAN FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

2017年01月26日

From February 18 to August 13, 2017, the Japanese American National Museum will present Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066, a new exhibition that commemorates the 75th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066, which led to the tragic and unlawful incarceration of 120,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry during World War II. For the first three month...

JANM ANNOUNCES NEW VP OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS

2015年11月30日

Rick Noguchi has been hired as Vice President of External Relations for the Japanese American National Museum. He began his role on November 16. Noguchi reports to JANM President and CEO Greg Kimura. The hiring marks a return to the museum for Noguchi, who previously held positions there in public programs and development. He has more than 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, serving in various mana...

First Major Exhibition of Rarely Seen Ceramic Works by Isamu Noguchi to Open In Only West Coast Venue, The Japanese American National Museum

2003年12月31日

A major survey of postwar Japanese ceramic art focusing on the work of Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) and his Japanese contemporaries opens at its only west coast venue, the Japanese American National Museum, on February 7, 2004. Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics is a landmark traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and is the first major museum pr...

Transcendients: 100 Days of COVID-19 and Memorial to Healthcare Workers

Transcendients: 100 Days of COVID-19 and Memorial to Healthcare Workers Artist Statement by Taiji Terasaki In March of 2020, when Stay-at-Home Orders were imposed on much of the United States and the world, I found myself socially distanced in my studio. Responding to the uncertainties and anxieties the pandemic brought, I tried to find light in positive stories. So I started a meditative weaving process...