{"id":28301,"global_id":"www.okhistory.org\/calendar?id=28301","global_id_lineage":["www.okhistory.org\/calendar?id=28301"],"author":"2","status":"publish","date":"2025-04-18 14:30:33","date_utc":"2025-04-18 19:30:33","modified":"2026-02-24 13:04:03","modified_utc":"2026-02-24 19:04:03","url":"https:\/\/www.okhistory.org\/calendar\/event\/resilience-a-sansei-sense-of-legacy-exhibit-opens\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/www.okhistory.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/28301","title":"Resilience: A Sansei Sense of Legacy<\/em> exhibit opens","description":"
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The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center will host the traveling exhibit Resilience: A Sansei Sense of Legacy<\/em> from Tuesday, July 1, through Saturday, August 30.<\/p>\n

In 1942, in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces, President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law Executive Order 9066. The law ordered the forced imprisonment of all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast of the United States, which at the time had the second-largest population of Japanese people living outside of Japan. Told from the point of view of Sansei (third generation) Japanese Americans,\u00a0Resilience: A Sansei Sense of Legacy<\/i>\u00a0is an exhibition of eight artists whose work reflects on the effect of EO9066 as it resonated from generation to generation.<\/p>\n

While several artists employ traditional Japanese methods in constructing their work, others use iconography relating to Japanese culture as a jumping-off point for personal explorations of the incarceration camps. Each in their own way, the artists in this exhibition express moments of deeply felt pain and reluctant acceptance, emotions that were often withheld by their elders.<\/p>\n

In the years following the retraction of EO9066 at the end of WWII, Japanese American families and individuals were forced to come to terms with lost property, the shame and indignation of incarceration, and the task of re-integration into a society that had expelled them. After their release from the incarceration camps that dotted the American West and Midwest during the war, Japanese Americans used the phrase \u201cshikata ga nai\u201d <\/b>it cannot be helped, and the word \u201cgaman\u201d to persevere and stay silent, to speak to their resilience against the losses they incurred at the behest of Roosevelt\u2019s order.<\/p>\n

The exhibition artists include\u00a0Kristine Aono, Reiko Fujii, Wendy Maruyama, Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, Tom Nakashima, Roger Shimomura, Judy Shintani, and Jerry Takigawa.<\/p>\n

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A Program of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance and The National Endowment for the Arts.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jerry Takigawa, Traces of Misconduct, 2019; pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, 17 x 22 inches; Courtesy of the artist.<\/p><\/div>\n

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