Darryl Mori

“Algunos creen que mi obra parece que está diciendo algo, como un megáfono”, dice Shinpei Takeda. “Y otros creen que está tratando de atrapar algo, como una red. Completamente diferente. Pero me gusta que pueda ser ambas cosas”.

Para Takeda, resolver perspectivas dispares no es nada nuevo. Es un artista visual y cineasta que trabaja con una gran diversidad de medios como película, fotografía, sonido, actuación, pintura, fibra y caligrafía. Valora la variedad.

Pero Takeda ofrece además un punto de vista peculiar acerca de la amplitud de las diferentes culturas del mundo. Nacido en ...

“Aunque desde muy lejos, yo siempre me he sentido cerca del museo”, dice  el Dr. G.W. (Greg) Kimura, nuevo Presidente y Director Ejecutivo del Museo Nacional Japonés Americano.”

“He sido miembro y afiliado del museo por años. Mi familia insiste en venir aquí cada vez que estamos en la zona, lo que ha sido por lo menos una vez al año. Una visita al museo es especial. Es como una peregrinación. Yo me siento reconfortado de ver la historia de la comunidad contada en tan hermoso lugar. Yo siempre he estado conmovido, realmente movido emocionalmente ...

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DN: Now that you’re a parent, are the conversations about identity you may have had with your kids similar or different than those you may have had with your own parents? Or a little of both?

KF: Ha! That assumes I ever had a single conversation about identity with my parents! I remember after I did Banana Split (my first film of note) and showed my parents. We watched it together, and afterwards both of them made a point to tell me they had no idea I had struggled as a kid, or got beat up ...

Artist/writer/performer Kip Fulbeck launched The Hapa Project in 2001, photographing more than 1,200 people of mixed Asian or Pacific Islander heritage. His intent was to raise awareness and understanding of multiracial people and to help them (especially children) form positive self-identities. The work led to a landmark book and related exhibition in 2006: kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa.

In the years since, he has spawned multiple books and exhibitions, spoken throughout the U.S. and abroad, and had his work shown in more than 20 countries. In his latest exhibition, hapa.me, on view at the ...

“I will never forget seeing my great-grandfather’s photograph in his immigration case file,” Marisa Louie Lee recalls. “The moment I opened the folder and saw the spitting image of my grandfather in front of me, I knew it was him. I cried in the research room!”

For Lee, a researcher and genealogist, exploring family histories has a lot of personal meaning.

“I have always been my family’s de facto ‘family historian,’ starting with the family newsletter I wrote and edited in elementary school,” she says. “As a sophomore in college, I paid a visit to the National Archives ...