Interviews
Starting out in Art
Especially in junior college, where in San Bernardino VC, Valley College it’s called.
That’s the first time that I thought, what really mattered was not my race anymore. That it was, I could draw and paint, and I knew it and they knew it, and that was the criteria. Finally, that it wasn’t your outside, it was something that you had, that you, you got going for you, and they appreciated it there.
Date: September 8, 2011
Location: California, US
Interviewer: John Esaki, Kris Kuramitsu
Contributed by: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum
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