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  • Kokoro 2024 Craft Show

    Oct 20, 2024

    Celebrate and shop during the 16th Anniversary of the Kokoro Craft Show at JANM! This annual craft show is sponsored by the Friends of JANM and features fashion apparel and accessories, jewelry, ceramics, gifts, and more from over fifty vendors. Shoppers who spend $25 or more will receive a 10% discount to local restaurants. No prize drawing this year. Order bentos by October 10 (DETAILS).SCHEDULE9:30 a.m.—JANM Membe...

  • GOTV: The Role of the Artist

    Oct 29, 2020

    FREE What is the role of art as we get out the vote and build larger movements for change? In this national conversation with engaged artists, hear about the importance of voting in both local and national elections, using art to challenge and shift culture, and how we build powerful, and beautiful, movements. Hear from Glenn Kaino, conceptual artist, Kristina Wong, performance artist and elected official, and...

  • ZÓCALO—Will California Pick the Next President?

    May 15, 2019

    A Zócalo/UCLA Downtown Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Moderated by Madeleine Brand, Host, KCRW’s "Press Play" When it comes to picking the country’s presidents, the richest and most populous state hasn’t much mattered. Because their primaries are held earlier and they are swing states in the general election, smaller and colder places—like New Hampshire, I...

  • Author Discussion—"American Sutra" by Duncan Williams

    Feb 23, 2019

    If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War by Duncan Williams FREE Duncan Ryuken Williams, a Soto Zen Buddhist priest and Director of the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture, will speak about his new book, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom During the S...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM RECEIVES THREE GRANTS TO SUPPORT TWO NEW PROJECTS

    Aug 30, 2018

    Los Angels, CA—The Japanese American National Museum has recently received three grants, totaling in excess of $515,000, to support two new projects that will culminate in Summer 2020. Almost $488,000 was awarded by the National Park Service through its Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) program and another $30,000 was awarded by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program. The money will support ...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM COLLECTIONS MANAGER SELECTED FOR SMITHSONIAN VISITING PROFESSIONALS PROGRAM

    Aug 28, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—Kristen Hayashi, the Collections Manager at the Japanese American National Museum, has been selected for the Smithsonian Affiliations Visiting Professionals Program (VPP) for 2018. Along with nine other professionals from across the Smithsonian Affiliates network, Hayashi will spend two weeks in Washington, DC, exploring programmatic uses of digital technology with art collections. With support fro...

  • Contested Histories at 2018 Minidoka Pilgrimage (Twin Falls, ID)

    Jul 06, 2018

    TRAVELING DISPLAY 2018 Minidoka Pilgrimage Twin Falls, ID 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentration camps. It was one of the first books to examine any aspect of...

  • Contested Histories at Tule Lake Pilgrimage 2018: Preserving Our Hallowed Ground (Klamath Falls, OR)

    Jun 29, 2018 - Jul 02, 2018

    TRAVELING DISPLAY Tule Lake Pilgrimage 2018: Preserving Our Hallowed Ground Klamath Falls, OR Friday: 4 p.m.–10 p.m. Saturday: 6 p.m.–10 p.m. Sunday: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.; workshop: 3:30 p.m.–5 p.m. Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongf...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM JOINS SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL YOUTH SUMMIT ON FREEDOM SUMMER

    Jan 17, 2014

    Los Angeles – On Wednesday, February 5, 2014, (9 am PST) The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will participate in the National Youth Summit on Freedom Summer, an online outreach program organized by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Coinciding with Digital Learning Day, the event at JANM will link middle and high schools students from across the country in an engaging program centered on...

  • JANM TO UNVEIL ‘SUPERNATURAL’ AT FREE OPENING RECEPTION FEB. 9 FROM 6:30 TO 9 P.M.

    Jan 30, 2013

    As part of its continuing Salon Pop series, the Japanese American National Museum will unveil its newest exhibition, Supernatural: The Art of Audrey Kawasaki, Edwin Ushiro, and Timothy Teruo Watters. The exhibition will run from February 9 through March 17, 2013 with an opening reception being planned for February 9 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the National Museum in Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles. The recept...