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  • Mottainai Spirit: Yoga with traci ishigo

    2016年03月12日

    March 12, 19, and 26—JUST ADDED! New dates have been added due to popular demand! Roughly translated, mottainai means "Don't be wasteful" in Japanese. In this 3-session yoga and meditation workshop for all levels, certified yoga instructor traci ishigo invites participants to harness their own inner energy to prevent body, mind, and spirit from going to waste. Participants can expect each one-hou...

  • Smithsonian Institution Museum Day Live!

    2016年03月12日

    Free admission to JANM all day! In the spirit of the Smithsonian Museums, which offer free admission every day, JANM is once again participating in the annual Museum Day Live! event. Inspiring Women and Girls of Color This year, JANM joins the Smithsonian Institution in encouraging all people, particularly women and girls of color in underserved communities, to explore their nation’s museums, cultur...

  • Members Only Learning at Lunch: Japanese American Photographers

    2016年03月11日

    In this special edition of Learning at Lunch, bring a brown bag lunch and enjoy an intimate hour with Frank Sata, son of J.T. Sata, a featured artist in our current exhibition, Making Waves. Frank will present and discuss photographs from JANM’s collection that are not on display in the exhibition. RSVPs recommended to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646. Photo: J.T. Sata, Untitled (Man Walking Out of ...

  • Asians on Film Festival

    2016年03月10日 - 2016年03月13日

    Thursday, March 10–Sunday, March 13 The Asians on Film Festival grew out of the website asiansonfilm.com, now a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting under-recognized Asians and Asian Americans working in the film industry. The annual festival, hosted by JANM, showcases nearly 100 of the best short films submitted to the website over the past year. Visit asiansonfilm.com for more inform...

  • Rediscovering Japanese American Photography

    2016年03月05日

    In conjunction with Making Waves, historian and exhibition curator Dennis Reed will introduce and lead a panel discussion on the recovery of Japanese American photographs. Panelists will include David F. Martin, author and curator; Robert Hori, Cultural Curator, Huntington Library; and Stephen White, writer and dealer, all of whom have played a role in saving once-lost works by Japanese American photographers. Eac...

  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    2016年03月05日

    Tour the ongoing exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with JANM’s knowledgeable docents. Free with museum admission.

  • Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Making Waves"

    2016年03月05日

    Join independent historian and curator David F. Martin for an exclusive gallery tour entitled "Surviving Art History: Artistic Reputation and the Seattle Camera Club." Martin will discuss the idea of artistic reputation as it applies to the Seattle Camera Club in the early part of the 20th century. Many of the photographers involved in the club had significant international success during their lifetimes but t...

  • Film Screening—"Copyright: Leonard Frank" and "The War Between Us"

    2016年02月28日

    In conjunction with Two Views, JANM will screen a short documentary on Leonard Frank and a feature-length drama set against the Japanese Canadian incarceration. Copyright: Leonard Frank tells the story of the great Canadian photographer, who emigrated from Germany at the age of 22. After winning a camera in a lottery, he spent the next 50 years taking pictures of everyday life, landscapes, and industry in Brit...

  • Making Waves

    2016年02月28日 - 2016年06月26日

    In the early 1900s, groups of Japanese Americans formed photography clubs along the Pacific coast from Los Angeles to Seattle. Their photographs were exhibited and published internationally to considerable acclaim, and admired by other photographers including Edward Weston and László Moholy-Nagy. Through artfully arranged images, the photographers represented the Japanese cultural heritage that they knew and loved; a...

  • Two Views

    2016年02月28日 - 2016年04月24日

    After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, both the Canadian and American governments incarcerated citizens of Japanese descent who were living in the western coastal regions. Nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans and 22,000 Japanese Canadians were affected. In the United States, concentration camps to house the citizens were scattered throughout the interior. In Canada, the BC Security Commission was established to over...