Posted on June 27, 2008 by judy24
Reiko Fujii, a fellow JFKU arts and consciousness alumni, is exhibiting her art piece, Glass Ancestral Kimono, mixed media, 2002. It is part of a group show at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek. Reiko is an Asian American artist and explores issues about her identity in relation to her family, her Japanese ancestry [...]
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Posted on May 9, 2008 by judy24
Well we did it. Lisa Petrides and I (Judy Shintani) did our “Honoring Grandmothers from Far Lands” performance at the Ted Adcock Senior Center in Half Moon Bay.
Though we have done it 2 times before, this was a bit different. 1) we did not have a lot of time to practice 2) we were [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by judy24
My cousins, sisters Sue Ann and Janice, and My Aunt Yo (87 years young) and I recently go together and took advantage of a photo op. We gathered with many other family members at a one year anniversary of my Aunt Mich’s death. That may sound like a solemn affair, but it also was a [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2008 by judy24
Me, Judy Shintani, and fellow coastside alumni Judy Johnson-Williams, are in an art show which opens this Friday, 2/15. JFKU alumni sister Dorothy Nissen is showing her work in this show too.
“Acts of war make people behave in many different ways. The Women On War exhibit features images of war, not just the Iraq War, [...]
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Posted on August 28, 2007 by judy24
it is hard to have a nice day even if we are having a heat wave in hmb. the discussion around our house is about the dollar collapse, possible sf false terrorist attack on labor day, bank failure, etc. if I’m not up on the latest conspiracy does that mean i am naive? does that [...]
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Posted on May 13, 2007 by judy24
This is a picture of my mom before she became a mom, probably in her early twenties. I want to honor her not only as my mother, but as a woman, as herself.
This photo was taken perhaps in her backyard in Wakiki. I think she loved Hawaii, the weather, her friends, the beauty of it [...]
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Posted on May 12, 2007 by judy24
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The Remembrance Shrine, February 2007 - Found objects, writings, rice paper
This piece will be on display in the Alumni Show at the John F Kennedy Arts and Consciousness Gallery, Berkeley, California, May 15-June 17, 2007.
I created this piece to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the internment of Japanese-Americans that occurred in the U.S. [...]
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Posted on May 12, 2007 by judy24
I just found this most incredible event that is happening on June 2 at Tanforan Shopping Center. Here is the press release:
SAN FRANCISCO (March 16, 2007) – In February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which sent 120,000 Japanese Americans to United States concentration camps during World War II. For nearly 8,000 San [...]
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