Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

The Life and Work of George Hoshida

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

This project honors the spirit and talent of George Hoshida, an incarcerated artist who documented life with pencil and brushwork in a series of notebooks he kept between 1942 and 1945. Through examples of Hoshida’s artwork and personal correspondence with his family, this site hopes to provide insight into one individual’s incarceration experience.

Website Link
janm.org/exhibits/hoshida
Event Date
Event Location

Streaming, – Japanese American National Museum
United States

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10314453
Event Main Image

Wakaji Matsumoto – An Artist in Two Worlds: Los Angeles and Hiroshima, 1917–1944

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

This exhibition highlights an artist’s rare photographs of the Japanese American community in Los Angeles prior to World War II and of urban life in Hiroshima prior to the 1945 atomic bombing of the city.

Website Link
janm.org/exhibits/wakaji-matsumoto/wakaji
Event Date
Event Location

Streaming, – Japanese American National Museum
United States

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event ID
10314403
Event Main Image

Island Block Jam Sessions

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Music
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum (PIEAM) presents Island Block Jam Sessions, six live contemporary music performances by seasoned Pasifika artists. This Virtual Backstage provides an inside look into the artists’ backstories. Their music is a gift for our ancestors and all the little spirits of the human journey. This is where music and mana meet.  
Website Link
pieam.org/virtual-backstage
Event Date
Event Location

Online at Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum
695 Alamitos Ave.
Long Beach, 90802
United States

Event Lat/Long
33.7751664, -118.1804853

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10315056
Event Main Image

AT THE CROSSROADS: QANDAHAR IN IMAGES AND EMPIRES

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

This exhibition features the earliest known photographs of Qandahar, Afghanistan, taken between 1880 and 1881 at the end of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Today, they offer insights into the region, its local populations, and its rich cultural traditions. We invite you to explore a free publication, an online preview of images, and stories related to this project.

Website Link
getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/qandahar
Event Date
Event Location

Online at the Getty Center
United States

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310.440.7300
Event ID
10309844
Event Main Image

Alice Wang: We Are Extraterrestrial

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
In her first solo museum exhibition in the US, We Are Extraterrestrial, Alice Wang showcases recent prints, glass sculptures, newly commissioned ceramic sculptures, film, and an artist’s book that reflect the artist’s deep curiosity for the space between the real and the imaginary. 

 

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, & Saturdays 12:00 noon – 4:00 p.m.,
Thursdays 12:00 noon – 7:00 p.m.
Website Link
vincentpriceartmuseum.org/exhibitions
Event Date
-
Event Location

Vincent Price Art Museum
1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez
Monterey Park, CA 91754
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0411583, -118.1509885

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
323.265.8841
Event ID
10316695
Event Main Image

Kyungmi Shin: Origin Stories

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

This exhibit explores Shin’s visual storytelling as a Korean American woman who engages indigeneity as a site of knowledge and creativity. She uses personal archives and figures from Korean shamanism to question the navigational forces that chinoiserie and “the Orient” play in empire, colonization, religion, gender, and love.

Adults – $9, Students, Teachers, and Seniors – $7, Members – Free,
Sundays pay what you can

Website Link
craftcontemporary.org
Event Date
-
Event Location

Craft Contemporary
5814 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0621761, -118.3555772

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$7 – $9
Contact Phone
323.937.4230
Event ID
10311047
Event Main Image

Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Refashioning presents two project spaces from transdisciplinary artists and fashion designers: Concept Foreign Garments New York (CFGNY) and Wataru Tominaga. Featuring garments, accessories, and textile works, the exhibition examines the ways in which these two practices—one based in New York, the other in Tokyo—challenge preconceived notions of gender and identity and, in particular, what the artists describe as “vaguely Asian” aesthetics.

 

Tuesday  –  Sunday 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Website Link
hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/upcoming
Event Date
-
Event Location

Hammer Museum, UCLA
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0591217, -118.4436674

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310.443.7000
Event ID
10314737
Event Main Image

Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The room is completely covered with mirrors and lights. As the multitude of lights reflect, they accumulate and expand exponentially. This sense of infinity has been with the artist from the beginning, always looking for more precise ways to express itself. In Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, Yayoi Kusama’s world is the viewer’s.

 

Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Fridays – 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Thursdays – 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., Saturdays & Sundays – 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Website Link
thebroad.org/visit/mirror-rooms
Event Date
-
Event Location

The Broad
221 S. Grand Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90012
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0544669, -118.2505609

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event ID
10316473
Event Main Image

Giant Robot Biennale 5

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Since 2007, JANM has partnered with Eric Nakamura, founder of Giant Robot, to produce the Giant Robot Biennale, a recurring art exhibition that highlights diverse creative works celebrating the ethos of Giant Robot—a staple of Asian American alternative pop culture and an influential brand encompassing pop art, skateboard, comic book, graphic arts, and vinyl toy culture.

 

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday – Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Thursday, 12:00 noon – 8:00 p.m. Adults – $16, Seniors and Youth – $9, Members and Children under 5 – Free
Website Link
janm.org/exhibits/grb5
Event Date
-
Event Location

Japanese American National Museum
100 N. Central Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0492315, -118.239116

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$9 – $16
Event ID
10311118
Event Main Image

Ireicho

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The Ireichō contains the first comprehensive listing of over 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were incarcerated in the US Army, Department of Justice, Wartime Civil Control Administration, and War Relocation Authority camps. Embedded into the very materiality of the Ireichō are unique ceramic pieces made from soil collected by the project from seventy-five former incarceration sites from Alaska to Hawai‘i, Arkansas to California, and almost every other region of the United States. The Ireizō lists those names online at ireizo.com. Visitors can search for the person’s name by name, birth year, or camp.

 

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday – Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Thursday, 12:00 noon – 8:00 p.m. Adults – $16, Seniors and Youth – $9, Members and Children under 5 – Free
Website Link
janm.org/exhibits
Event Date
-
Event Location

Japanese American National Museum
100 N. Central Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0492315, -118.239116

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$9 – $16
Event ID
10312731
Event Main Image
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month