2010年3月5日 · The Art of Gaman showcases arts and crafts made by Japanese Americans in U.S. internment camps during World War II. Soon after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 , all ethnic Japanese on the West Coast — more than two-thirds of whom were American citizens by birth — were ordered to leave their homes and move to ten inland ...

2010年5月12日 · After the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, the U.S. government relocated 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry from their homes on the West Coast to desolate inland areas of the U.S. is a new exhibit...

2024年8月21日 · Camp-made crafts articulated fluid, shifting, and multiple stances against oppressive living conditions. By filling their living units with art, detainees made their surroundings look and feel less like spaces of incarceration, an important consideration for parents who struggled to establish even limited amounts of normalcy for their children.

This carving demonstrates the artistic skill that many incarcerated Japanese American possessed. Internees found a way to express their emotions through their talents. Many objects made in the internment camps revealed and represented the resilience of these imprisoned people. Location Currently not on view date made

2024年4月5日 · Now, 32 years after Hibi’s death, her work is part of “ Pictures of Belonging,” a traveling exhibition that features the artwork of three Japanese American women of the pre-World War II...

2019年12月3日 · The show, “The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946,” toured 15 museums in the United States and Japan over 10 years.

2020年3月10日 · During the Japanese-American internment of 1942-1946, there arose a style of art that drew from elements and techniques of Western and traditional Japanese forms. Through a closer look at these works of art, Japanese-American internment art can serve to reflect the internees’ cultural, social, and political resilience while also allowing us ...

Regardless, religious motifs are tied to many of the art pieces that came from Japanese Americans during their time in internment camps. One such piece was a butsudan created by Kichitaro Kawase while she was in the Amache camp. A butsudan is a typically small buddhist altar found in many Japanese homes.

A showcase of more than 120 artifacts made by Japanese Americans while interned at camps during WWII, this traveling exhibit explores the creativity and ingenuity of internees as well as the Japanese concept of gaman, or to endure the unbearable with patience and dignity.

“Gaman” is a Japanese word that means bearing the seemingly unbearable with dignity and patience—the perfect descriptor of the furniture, tools, toys, musical instruments and other arts and crafts handmade by the ethnic Japanese who were forced into America’s internment camps shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.