Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi and Mine Okubo
Art Talk by scholar ShiPu Wang – Saturday, March 2, 2 pm (In-person only)
Pictures of Belonging brings together over ninety works by three pioneering Japanese American artists from the pre–World War II era. Despite long careers and critical acclaim, Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo have largely been overlooked in traditional American art history. This groundbreaking exhibition reintroduces their work and explores their deep connections with each other for the first time. The traveling exhibition will begin at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Feb-June 2024), Smithsonian American Art Museum (Nov 2024-Aug 2025) and will follow at several other sites.
Curator and scholar Dr. ShiPu Wang returns to J-Sei to talk about the new exhibit he has curated. He is the Coats Endowed Chair in the Arts and Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of California, Merced, and Commissioner of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, co-published by the Japanese American National Museum and the University of California Press, will be available for purchase for $50.
Co-presented by Friends of Topaz Museum. RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/pictures-of-belonging