In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which led to the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans in the United States, including men, women, children, the elderly ...

What remains in the arts and crafts produced by internees is evidence of the triumph of the human spirit, the true art of gaman. About the author. Delphine Hirasuna Contributor. Delphine Hirasuna is ...

The Art of Gaman: furniture, jewelry, drawings and other objects made by prisoners of Japanese American Internment Camps. Through Jan. 21. Museum of Craft and Folk Art, 51 Yerba Buena Lane, San ...

Hirasuna, the editor of design journal @issue, published “The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps 1942-1946” in 2005. After receiving attention and ...

"The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946" will be on view at the Renwick Gallery, located on Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street N.W. through ...

The art is known as "Gaman," synonymous with "patience and endurance." Art & Design. The Enduring Art of 'Gaman' on Display. January 21, 2007 8:00 AM ET. Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday. By .

Washington, D.C.’s Renwick Gallery is showing more than 100 examples of the artwork made by Japanese-Americans during World War II, when the U.S. government interned more than 120,000 of them in ...

“The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts From the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946” sounds heavy, and no doubt parts of it will be. Still, the Holocaust Museum promises the exhibition ...

Gaman can also leave women trapped in unhappy marriages. “Our society expects women to be humble or quiet. So sometimes women try not to express negative feelings, just gaman,” says Odagiri.

"The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946" will be on view at the Renwick Gallery, located on Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street N.W. through ...