Day of Remembrance 2025: Henry Sugimoto, Artwork from the Camps.
(This is a partnership program with the Japanese American Citizens League, Creighton Intercultural Center, and Joslyn Art Museum)
Wed, Feb 19, 6 pm talk by Kristen Hayashi, followed by light refreshments
Free, but advanced registration is required; walk-ins are welcome if space permits. Register here for the program.
At this year’s Day of Remembrance program, Kristen Hayashi, Director of Collections Management & Access and Curator at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), will speak about the artist Henry Sugimoto. The JANM's Henry Sugimoto Collection chronicles the artist’s prolific sixty-year career from his travels throughout France and the United States, to his incarceration in the Jerome and Rohwer concentration camps, to his retirement in New York. One of the works in the collection, When Can We Go Home?, is currently on view in The Joslyn’s temporary exhibition, All Aboard: The Railroad in American Art, 1840-1955. The painting is one of many works that Sugimoto created about the experiences of Japanese Americans during WWII.