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  • Exhibition Tour: Common Ground

    Mar 03, 2012

    Tour our ongoing exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with experienced docents.

  • New Shibori Workshop with Shibori Girl

    Mar 03, 2012

    After spending the last two workshops immersed in indigo, this workshop will be all about COLOR! Come spend the afternoon learning and practicing shibori techniques on silk. Each participant will receive a variety pack of silk fabrics to experiment with plus a white silk scarf blank to dye and wear home. We'll also dye some ribbons and trims and see some samples of how they can be used to make lovely floral embelli...

  • Keiro Senior HealthCare Class: Want to keep your memory sharp?

    Mar 03, 2012

    FREE! Class meets at 9:30 am on March 3, 10, 17. & 24 Memory Kai is an innovative education program that teaches practical techniques for enhancing memory. Developed by the UCLA Center on Aging and based on research conducted by Dr. Gary Small, it helps participants: - Learn methods to improve their memory - Remember names and faces - Recall numbers - Discover factors that affect memory Who Should Attend: A...

  • Exhibition and Performance: Visual artist Mineko Grimmer and music of composer John Cage

    Mar 03, 2012 - Mar 04, 2012

    Saturday, March 3 at 8 PM Sunday, March 4 at 5 PM Each of the works, entitled One6 and One10, is an extended composition for solo violin. Written to be performed with a specific kinetic sound sculpture created by the visual artist. Part of Southwest Chamber Music’s Cage 2012, a three-year centennial celebration of the work of this seminal Los Angeles-born composer, whose music and thought were highly influential i...

  • Double (Book) Header: "How to Be An American Housewife" by Margaret Dilloway & "Wingshooters" by Nina Revoyr

    Feb 25, 2012

    How to Be An American Housewife crosses continents, cultures, decades, and generations to tell the story of a Japanese woman who marries an American soldier at the end of World War II, her thorny relationship with her American daughter, and the trip to contemporary Japan that changes both of their lives in dramatic and unexpected ways. Purchase How to Be an American Housewife >> Wingshooters, set in the 1970...

  • Craft Class with Ruthie Kitagawa: Hinamatsuri Cards

    Feb 25, 2012

    Make hinamatsuri (Girl’s Day) greeting card for your friends and family. $9 members; $14 non-members, includes admission and supplies. RSVP is required. Maximum 12 people.

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Feb 25, 2012

    Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with National Museum docents. $9 Members; $14 non-members, includes Museum admission. Comfortable walking shoes and clothes recommended. Weather permitting.

  • Remembrance Project Unveiling Party

    Feb 18, 2012

    FREE! Open to all! Celebrate the public unveiling of the Museums' newest online initiative the Remembrance Project. In conjunction with the 70th anniversary of E.O. 9066, the Project is a new website featuring stories about those affected by the events surrounding the Japanese American World War II experience. Through written Tributes submitted by individuals, families, and friends, this evovling three-year pr...

  • Community Day of Remembrance

    Feb 18, 2012

    Pay-What-You-Can! 2012 Day of Remembrance will mark the 70th Anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 which led to the unlawful forced removal of thousands of Americans of Japanese ancestry and the unconstitutional mass incarceration of 120,000 individuals in domestic concentration camps. The 2012 Day of Remembrance program will explore the theme, “70 Years After E.O. 9066: Defending Our Civil Liberti...

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

    Dec 31, 2003

    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...