ジュリア・ムラカミ

(Julia Murakami)

Julia Murakami is a Yonsei native Angeleno, the daughter of a Kibei Sansei Hibakusha father and a Shin-Issei mother. She's the Volunteer Program Manager and a Project Manager at JANM. Her most recent project is the exhibition Transcendients: Heroes at Borders. Prior to joining the Museum staff, Julia volunteered at JANM for 17 years in a variety of capacities.

Updated July 2020

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絆2020：ニッケイの思いやりと連帯―新型コロナウイルスの世界的大流行を受けて

JANM Volunteers in the Time of Covid

  • ジュリア・ムラカミ
  • 2020年7月14日

40 staff and 200 volunteers are the human resource numbers for the Japanese American National Museum. With volunteers outnumbering staff 5:1, the hallways and the Takei Volunteer Center became much quieter places in early March when, for health safety reasons, we had to ask they no longer come into the Museum until further notice.

With half of our volunteers having been part of the JANM forces for 10 or more years, there are definite bonds that have formed between staff and volunteers. Daily questions were: Is everybody okay? Is everyone safe?

Volunteers consistently voiced concerns about staff and asked ...

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Creating a Fresh Look at Kokeshi

  • ジュリア・ムラカミ
  • 2009年9月28日

Two curators + three sections + over 110 artists + more than 300 art pieces. Combining these many and varied parts into a single museum exhibition, Kokeshi: From Folk Art to Art Toy, was the task of Maria Kwong, who curated the show on behalf of the Los Angeles Toy, Doll & Amusements Museum (LATDA) and the Japanese American National Museum (JANM).

Kwong, who is affiliated with both institutions, had researched the kokeshi (a traditional Japanese wooden doll form) in connection with an earlier LATDA vinyl toy show but the combination didn’t work. She continued to notice the kokeshi doll icon in works ...

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