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