A glass kimono sits in the middle of the room, made from 244 frames strung together with copper wire. Each frame contains photographs of artist Reiko Fuji's relatives and friends, as well as the Japa
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‘Shadows from the Past: Sansei Artists and the American Concentration Camps’
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STOCKTON LH Horton Jr. Gallery at San Joaquin Delta College presents “Shadows from the Past: Sansei Artists and the American Concentration Camps,” opening with an online exhibition at http://gallery.deltacollege.edu on Thursday, Jan. 21, and an opening reception to meet the artists at 5:30 p.m. PST. Participate online via Zoom: https://www.deltacollege.edu/event/shadows-past-sansei-artists-and-american-concentration-camps-opening-reception-
The exhibition presents the work of eight nationally recognized Sansei artists whose work reflects their mutual Japanese American history and the racial injustice of their families’ incarceration during WWII in the American concentration camps. These Sansei are now the last generation to hear the stories of those incarcerated first-hand.