Tiny Art Gallery Exhibit: Art as an Act of Remembrance
This exhibit was a part of the Tiny Art Gallery for All project. I designed and block-printed a collection of hand lettered pieces inspired by the Day of Remembrance, which marks the anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066. This order allowed for the forced removal and incarceration of over 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry into concentration camps across the U.S, a quiet legacy I carry within myself.
These pieces are hand lettered phrases and imagery inspired by my family’s incarceration in the Minidoka, Manzanar and Rohwer camps. On the backs of the pieces were poems written by incarcerees about their time in the camps. The community was invited to take these prints to acknowledge this part of our country’s complicated history.
About The Day of Remembrance:
The first Day of Remembrance was held in Seattle on November 25, 1978, over the Thanksgiving weekend. Volunteers re-enacted the removal of the Seattle Japanese American community to the Puyallup Assembly Center. The idea to stage a Day of Remembrance was in response to the stalled redress movement at the time. The date was moved to around February 19, to observe the anniversary date of the signing of E.O. 9066
Source: https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Days_of_Remembrance/
Credits:
Organizers: Kim Carlino, Maggie Nowinski