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  • JANM Mourns the Passing of Former President Jimmy Carter

    Dec 30, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum mourns the passing of former President Jimmy Carter, a lifelong advocate for justice and human rights and an early ally in the movement for redress for Japanese Americans unjustly incarcerated during World War II. In 1980, President Carter signed a law establishing the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC), which was instrumental i...

  • Reception for Mario Gershom Reyes

    Dec 06, 2024

    Join us for the opening of OBRAS DE LUZ (Works of Light): A 40-Year History of the Japanese American Community through the Lens of Photojournalist Mario Gershom ReyesAs a photojournalist with The Rafu Shimpo (Los Angeles’s Japanese American newspaper since 1903), Mario Reyes has documented the milestones, the tragedies, and the victories of the Japanese American community in Los Angeles. A new pop-up exhibition at JA...

  • Democracy Center Announces New Podcast and Art Series with Gratitude Blooming

    Jul 06, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center) in partnership with Gratitude Blooming will launch the Empathy and Democracy podcast and pop-up art series on July 15, 2023 from 4 p.m.–6:30 p.m. Admission to the pop-up art exhibit is free. Visitors coming for KCRW Summer Nights can also visit the pop-up at the Democracy Center. Tickets for the live podcast are $20 for general...

  • Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market

    Jun 30, 2023 - Feb 11, 2024

    Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market is inspired by Akira and Sachiye Shiraishi’s small neighborhood market (1957–1970) in East Los Angeles. Created by artist Glenn Akira Kaino (Akira’s grandson and namesake), the exhibition explores the transgenerational trauma from the World War II Japanese American incarceration experience through the stories of Kaino, his family, and the community. It is also an interrogation of the America...

  • JANM Receives Over $5.4 Million in Major Foundation, Corporate, and Government Support in 2022

    Jan 11, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – In 2022, the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) received over $5.4 million in grants from twenty-three major foundation, corporate, and government agencies. The Perenchio Foundation awarded $2,550,000, to JANM, which will provide crucial support for the Museum as a whole, allow the Museum to continue to tell the stories of Japanese Americans in innovative, educational, and eye-opening ways ...

  • Augmented Reality Exhibition Places Viewers in Midst of WWII-era Forced Removal of Japanese Americans

    May 02, 2022

    LOS ANGELES, CA – Eighty years ago, during World War II, the U.S. government forcibly removed Japanese Americans from the West Coast, incarcerating 120,000 in concentration camps. This May, an exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) lets visitors step into those dark days of 1942 through an augmented reality re-creation at the very site where thousands of Japanese Americans living in downtown Los A...

  • Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection

    Apr 08, 2022 - Apr 10, 2022

    Complementing the Noguchi Museum's exhibition ‘No Monument: In the Wake of the Japanese American Incarceration,’ the Japanese American National Museum brings ‘Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection’ to The Noguchi Museum for one weekend, April 8–10, 2022. Reservations are free, and include full admission to The Noguchi Museum. This collection of art and craft objects ...

  • Hinamatsuri Workshop: "Kokeshi" Doll Art with Mari Inukai

    Feb 29, 2020

    SOLD OUT In celebration of Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day), paint your own prince and princess kokeshi doll set with artist Mari Inukai. Bring pictures of your favorite flowers and textile samples as reference material to paint your doll’s kimono. All generations welcome! Limited to 10 participants, however, to encourage collaboration, guests who wish to work together may sign up as a single participant; each particip...

  • Hinamatsuri Workshop: "Kokeshi" Doll Art with Mari Inukai

    Mar 03, 2018

    SOLD OUT In celebration of Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day), paint your own prince and princess kokeshi doll set with artist Mari Inukai. Bring pictures of your favorite flowers and textile samples as reference material to paint your doll’s kimono. All generations welcome! Limited to 10 participants, however, to encourage collaboration, guests who wish to work together may sign up as a single participant; each particip...

  • Becoming a Family Sleuth

    May 17, 1997

    Workshop for Kids ages 9-12 Kids—explore the excitement of uncovering hidden stories about your own family history! Learn to gather clues from old pictures, attic antiques, and life stories. This interactive workshop will provide hands-on training for children interested in doing oral history. This is the first in a series of two workshops (see June 14 description) and requires the completion of a homework assignm...