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  • JANM Congratulates the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation on Being a New Smithsonian Affiliate

    Apr 09, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) congratulates the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation (HMWF) on being a new Smithsonian Affiliate. Established in 1996, the HMWF preserves the original site of the Heart Mountain concentration camp in northwestern Wyoming and tells the stories of over 14,000 people who were unjustly incarcerated there during World War II through its world-class museum, the ...

  • ASOBI at JANM: Mini Lotus Cross-Stitches with Barbara Sueko McGuire

    Mar 21, 2024

    Experience the art of play at Asobi at JANM, our new series once a month where local artists showcase their unique work through interactive demonstrations and every guest goes home with a new art piece and sense of accomplishment. For our inaugural event, join Barbara Sueko McGuire of String Theory to create mini lotus cross-stitches. Follow Barbara’s pattern and use your own creativity to make your own handmade,...

  • JANM Announces New After-hours Artmaking Series Beginning March 21

    Mar 01, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces Asobi! at JANM, a new series from 7 p.m.–9 p.m. on selected Thursdays where local artists showcase their unique work through interactive demonstrations and every guest goes home with a new art piece and sense of accomplishment. Admission is $10 (Members: free). Visitors can learn how to make art, mingle with old and new friends, and try somet...

  • JANM to Present J. T. Sata: Immigrant Modernist on March 15, 2024

    Feb 01, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present J. T. Sata: Immigrant Modernist from March 15–September 1, 2024. Curated by Dennis Reed, the exhibition comprises sixty photographs by Sata, along with family artifacts from his time in America’s concentration camps and reproductions of his paintings and drawings. Sata was a charter member of the Japanese Camera Pictorialists of California, a...

  • " Blue Skies and Thunder: Farm Boy, Pilot, Inventor, TSA Officer, And WWII Soldier Of The 442nd Regimental Combat Team " by Virgil Westdale and Stephanie A. Gerdes

    Sep 26, 2010

    In 1942, Virgil Westdale was a successful young flight instructor when the government ousted him from the Air Corps and demoted him to army private. Having grown up as a Japanese American midwestern farm boy, Westdale (a hapa) had his first taste of Japanese culture when he was sent to train with the all Japanese American unit, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. He was ultimately transferred to the 522nd Artillery Bat...

  • BIG DRUM EXHIBITION REVEALS GROWING POPULARITY OF ENSEMBLE TAIKO GROUPS THROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA PERFORMING ON JAPANESE DRUMS IN U.S. BEGAN WITH ONLY 3 JAPANESE AMERICAN GROUPS, NOW NUMBERS OVER 200

    Jul 01, 2005

    Los Angeles, CA — The Japanese American National Museum will premiere Big Drum: Taiko in the United States on Thursday, July 14, the first major museum exhibition about the phenomenal growth of taiko (Japanese drum) performance in the United States and North America, beginning with three grassroots groups in California and ballooning to an estimated 200 performing ensembles in 24 states and throughout Canada. Thro...

  • The Queen of the Remote Control

    Jan 31, 2002

    Play Reading Presented by East West Players Written by Sujata Bhatt A seriocomic look at a South Asian American family in Calabasas, California, whose American dreams begin to unravel as their past begins to catch up with them.

  • The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa

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  • Tatau: Marks of Polynesia - Store

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  • Tatau: Marks of Polynesia - Press

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