With Resilience: A Sansei Sense of Legacy touring the Pacific Northwest—currently on exhibition at the Japanese American Museum of Oregon, in Portland, and traveling next to the Washington Historical Society, in Tacoma—Seattle’s International Examiner published a review of Balancing Cultures, Jerry Takigawa’s book about his photo project.
“Balancing Cultures reimagines the family album, revealing unspoken…
Join the Japanese American Museum of Oregon on Thursday, December 1, 2022, from 6:00 – 7:00pm for a virtual conversation with three of the artists whose work is featured in the exhibition Resilience: A Sansei Sense of Legacy—Kristine Aono, Reiko Fujii, and Jerry Takigawa (who co-curated the exhibition with Gail Enns). Lucy Capehart, Director…
Jerry Takigawa’s photography series, Balancing Cultures, presents his family’s experience with the WWII American concentration camps. Within the past five years, Balancing Cultures has garnered eleven awards, eight solo exhibitions, multiple reviews and articles, fifty-five group exhibitions, and a monograph—published in 2021. Today, we’re honored to announce the acquisition of multiple sets of…
Continuing on its five-year national tour, Resilience: A Sansei Sense of Legacy will be on display at the Japanese American Museum of Oregon (JAMO) October 2 through December 22, 2022. Co-curated by Jerry Takigawa and Gail Enns, the exhibition presents the work of eight Sansei artists from across the United States. Working in different…
This year forty photographers, from five continents were named LensCulture 2022 Critics’ Choice Award winners. Of those forty, ten were selected as Top Ten winners, a distinction that will earn them each a $1000 grant in recognition of their work and participation in a group exhibition to be held in Paris during
The in-person Opening Reception for Atlanta Photography Group’s Portfolio 2022 will take place at the Atlanta Photography Group Gallery from 6–8pm on Thursday, May 19. “Strong, cohesive bodies of work” were selected for this exhibition by juror Karen E. Hass, the Lane Senior Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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“Balancing Cultures moved me profoundly.” —George Takei, Actor, Author, Activist
On Sunday, April 24, 2022, from 12—2pm, photographer Jerry Takigawa will be showing prints and signing his new monograph at the Japanese American Museum of Oregon. The museum is located at 411 NW Flanders Street, Portland, OR 97209.
Takigawa’s seminal book: Balancing Cultures, from…
As part of the Photolucida Portfolio Review Program, there will be a public Portfolio Walk and Photobook Fair on April 21, 2022, from 6-9pm in the Fields Ballroom (Marks Building) at the Portland Art Museum—located at 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205. 75 artists, plus several independent photo book publishers, will…
“The Griffin Museum celebrates the craft of photography in all of its forms, as well as highlighting visual artists at the beginning of their creative journey. Over the past thirty years, showcasing luminaries of photography, we have had the pleasure of working with many emerging talents. Perceiving Pathways is a series of interviews, conducted by Tori Currier, looking…
Balancing Cultures is a finalist in the PORTRAITS—Hellerau Photography Awards Exhibition. This year’s exhibition will open on April 7, 2022, at 7pm (Berlin time) and will run through June 12. Works from all 29 finalists will be featured, and—on the night of the opening—the winners will be announced. The exhibition will be…
Resilience: A Sansei Sense of Legacy began it’s five year national tour at the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery in Topeka, Kansas, where it will be on display from March 9 through May 28, 2022. Co-curated by Jerry Takigawa and Gail Enns, the exhibition presents the work of eight Sansei artists from different locations…
Opening Friday, January 14, Face It: Artists’ Portraits will be shown at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts through February 19, 2022. The Cherry Center is located at 4th and Guadalupe in Carmel, CA, and is open Wednesday through Friday, 11am – 4pm and Saturday, noon – 4pm.
Curated by Martha Manson, the…
