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DESCRIPTION:<span style="background-color: initial\;">Objects are often sai
 d to be &ldquo\;mute&rdquo\; witnesses to history. In this slide presentat
 ion\, Nancy Ukai will&nbsp\; <span style="background-color: initial\;">exp
 lore some of the stories that she discovered in her research on objects in
  the Eaton collection of&nbsp\; <span style="background-color: initial\;">
 Japanese American camp artifacts. The items\, which include barrack namepl
 ates\, furniture\, paintings\,&nbsp\; <span style="background-color: initi
 al\;">photographs and carvings\, were separated from the community for mor
 e than 70 years after they were&nbsp\; <span style="background-color: init
 ial\;">collected by crafts scholar Allen H. Eaton in 1945 as the camps wer
 e closing. Eaton wanted to mount an&nbsp\; <span style="background-color: 
 initial\;">exhibition but never did\, and the objects which were handed do
 wn to his daughter and then to a&nbsp\; <span style="background-color: ini
 tial\;">contractor&rsquo\;s family\, came on the mark et for the first tim
 e in 2015. After a nationwide protest by&nbsp\; <span style="background-co
 lor: initial\;">Japanese Americans\, including JAMsj\, who criticized the 
 priv ate profiting off works that represented&nbsp\; <span style="backgrou
 nd-color: initial\;">suffering and injustice\, the auction was cancelled. 
 The collection was later acquired by the Japanese&nbsp\; <span style="back
 ground-color: initial\;">American National Museum in Los Angeles.\n<span s
 tyle="background-color: initial\;">\n\nThe date of this lecture marks the 
 day before the 75th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order&nbsp\;<s
 pan style="background-color: initial\;">9066\, on Feb. 19\, 1942\, as well
  as the 65th anniv ersary of the publication of Eaton&rsquo\;s book\, &ldq
 uo\;Beauty Behind&nbsp\; <span style="background-color: initial\;">Barbed 
 Wire: the Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps.&rdquo\;\n \n \
 n<strong>NANCY UKAI</strong> is a writer and researcher based in Berkeley.
  After graduating from UC Santa Cruz\, she lived&nbsp\;<span style="backgr
 ound-color: initial\;">in Japan for 14 years\, working as a Fulbright Engl
 ish Fellow\, a weaving apprentice at a Buddhist temple\,&nbsp\; <span styl
 e="background-color: initial\;">and as a journalist for Newsweek and the A
 sahi newspaper in Tokyo.\n<strong>Costs:</strong> &nbsp\;Free with admissi
 on to the museum (nonmembers\,  $5\;&nbsp\;students (with valid ID) and se
 niors over age 65\, $3\; &nbsp\;JAMsj members  and children 5 and under\, 
 free).\n\n<strong>RSVP:</strong> &nbsp\;Seating is limited. Contact&nbsp\;
 <a href="mailto:PublicPrograms@jamsj.org">PublicPrograms@jamsj.org</a> &nb
 sp\;or&nbsp\;call (408) 294-3138 to reserve a spot.
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SUMMARY:No Longer Silent: Uncovering the Stories Behind the Eaton Artifacts
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