9066 Exhibition: Spring 2017

Exhibition Highlights

Highlights of the exhibition include traveling exhibitions, art objects and objects made and used by the families in the camps.

Leon S. Peters Ellipse Gallery

• Art of Survival: Enduring the Turmoil of Tule Lake (a travelling exhibition, held February 19—April 30, 2017)
• San Diego artist Wendy Maruyama’s 11' x 4' Tag Project stack of ID tag reproductions from Tule Lake

The Gallery is located on the second floor of the North Wing.

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Pete P. Peters Ellipse Balcony gallery

• Connecting the Pieces: Dialogues on the Amache Archaeology Collection (a travelling exhibition, held February 19—April 30, 2017)
• Robert Ogata drawings of the Gila River War Relocation Center

The Balcony gallery is located on the third floor of the North Wing.

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Special Collections Research Center
Woodward Family Reading Room

February 19—June 2, 2017

Additional viewing hours are:
  Noon to 5 p.m. on March 25 - 26 and April 29 - 30

• Artworks by Reiko Fujii, Judy Shintani and Patricia Wakida
• Poetry of Violet Kazue de Cristoforo
• Elaborate architectural renderings of an imagined Fresno Assembly Center
• Objects made and used in the camps and profiles of individual families
• A special section on the military contributions of Japanese Americans during World War II from the Go For Broke National Education Center in Los Angeles.

The Center is located on the fourth floor of the South Wing.

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Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature

February 19—April 30, 2017

• Display of children's books on Japanese American internment

The Center is located on the third floor of the South Wing.

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Madden Library Diversity Lounge

February 19—March 30, 2017

• Display of the Henry Madden Library's media, books and government documents on Japanese American internment at the Library Diversity Lounge. This display was prepared by the Madden Library Diversity Committee.

The Lounge is located on the second floor of the North Wing.

Opening Reception

• 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. on February 19, 2017
• North Gym 118 on Fresno State's Campus Drive (slightly northwest of the Library)
• This is a free event. Parking is unrestricted.
• RSVP requests have been closed. This event is at capacity.

Japanese American Internment Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

• 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. on March 14, 2017
• Outside the Leon S. Peters Ellipse Gallery in the Henry Madden Library (2nd floor, North Wing)
• This is a free public event held during normal Library hours.
• Parking may be restricted. Please visit a campus parking kiosk.
• For other information visit the event meetup page.

This is a Edit-a-thon type of event focused on updating Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, on the subject of Japanese American internment during World War II. We hope we can get participants willing to help us inform the world.

Performance: Nikiko Masumoto

• 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. on April 5, 2017
• Table Mountain Rancheria Reading Room in the Henry Madden Library (3rd floor, North Wing)
• This is a free public event held during normal Library hours.
• Parking may be restricted. Please visit a campus parking kiosk.
• RSVP on our eRsvp form using "LIBCARRY"

This is a special adaptation of What We Could Carry.

Friends of the Madden Library
Talk: Karen Korematsu

• 6:00 p.m. on April 7, 2017
• In the Henry Madden Library
• This is a free public event. Parking is free.
• RSVP on our eRsvp form using "LIBKORE"

Karen is the daughter of Fred Korematsu, who was a key figure in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that challenged the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066.

The office of Congressman Jim Costa will be presenting a Congressional Resolution to the Japanese American Citizens League in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the passage of Executive Order 9066 in 1942. There will be an opportunity for people to take a photo with Congressman Costa or his representative and the Resolution.

For more information or assistance with physical accommodations, contact Sharon Ramirez at 559.278.5790 or sramirez@csufresno.edu.