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Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art, Design & Activism in Post-War Los Angeles

The exhibition, Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art, Design & Activism in Post-War Los Angeles, is on view at the Japanese American National Museum from October 15, 2011 …

online exhibition

GIDRA: April 1974 issue

JANM

This album shares the final issue of Gidra magazine (April 1974) as a part of the Japanese American National Museum's exhibition Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art, Design …

magazine

This album shares the entire February 1973 issue of Gidra magazine* presented as a part of the Japanese American National Museum’s exhibition, Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art, Design & …

magazine

GIDRA: January 1971 Issue

JANM

This album shares the entire January 1971 issue of Gidra magazine as a part of the Japanese American National Museum’s exhibition Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art, Design …

magazine

GIDRA: April 1969 issue

JANM

This album shares the first issue of Gidra magazine (April 1969) as a part of the Japanese American National Museum’s exhibition, Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art, Design …

magazine

What's in a Name

mkochiyama

Every summer, Japanese American National Museum volunteers attend a series of Summer Institute for Volunteers (SIV) classes about cultural identity, history of the community, the museum and films. This one …

community history

American Tapestry: 25 Stories from the Collection

chanami

American Tapestry presents an intimate look into an ethnic community. At the same time, it celebrates the lives of everyday individual Americans who embody the “We” in “We the People” …

online exhibition

The 21st Century Museum: Significant artifacts selected by Japanese American National Museum Volunteers

JANM

Japanese American National Museum staff and interns worked with volunteers to create a series of 30-second digital video shorts sharing the volunteer’s personal stories related to artifacts from the exhibition …

community history

The Heart Mountain Barracks Project

gkkyamaguchi

In 1942, hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans, living on the West Coast were forced to live in internment camps due to Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066. After the …

community history

2009 Tanabata Festival

ylkawashima

What better way to connect to the community than through beautiful craft work? Surprisingly Nisei Week, the Little Tokyo Public Safety Association's Brian Kito, and the Japanese American National Museum …

community history

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