Reclaiming the Future: The Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration Public Exhibition Opening

Saturday, September 5
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Vladem Contemporary
404 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe

This free public opening for Reclaiming the Future: The Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration will feature brief remarks at 6:15pm from guest Curator, Machiko Harada, artist Lehuauakea and Nikki Nojima Louis, childhood survivor of the incarceration camps.

Light refreshments will be served and music provided by Maymi Fugami.

Mayumi Fugami is a certified jiuta shamisen, koto, and voice instructor in New Mexico. She earned her Kyoshi Menjo (formal teaching certificate) under Grand Master Yoko Hiraoka in the Ikuta lineage. Formerly a high school science teacher, she is passionate about helping students enjoy and express themselves through music, grow, and be successful. She began her musical background in piano, violin, contra bass, guitar, and choir.

Mayumi is a member of the Sankyo Trio and has performed at events in Colorado with Rocky Mountain Sankyoku, Albuquerque Aki Matsuri, Santa Fe Sky Rail, Clyfford Still Museum, Denver Botanical Garden, and many other private functions and events.

Don’t miss out on the first look at this major exhibition bringing together ten Japanese and Japanese American artists whose work engages the enduring legacies of wartime incarceration, migration, memory, and place.

image: Aisuke Kondo, Reconstruction of Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Incarceration at Manzanar-2, 2020, dye-sublimation print on fabric, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. © Aisuke Kondo. Photo by Aisuke Kondo.