NOW & THEN: Life In Community Art
Our time-honored artists of J-Town herald their diverse cultural heritage.
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Lauren Ito – To Our Ancesors – SFAC Emerging Artist Grant
Read the Zine here! https://toourancestors.com/ The late Janice Mirikitani shared that we must, “write towards the light.” In this spirit of Janice’s message and calling in care, a cohort of Japanese diasporic artists will convene to co-create a love letter to our ancestors inspired by the Japanese poetic form of renshi. Renshi is a collaborative…
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Topaz Collages – Jeanie Kashima – Exhibit
Eugenia “Jeanie” Kashima was the first baby born in Topaz (Central Utah) Concentration Camp, on September 22, 1942. Seventy-eight years later during the initial stages of the COVID epidemic Jeanie would revisit her birth via art. This journey would produce the collages here. Her family lived in Berkeley before the war where her grandfather Seizo…