“Pictures of Belonging” traces the careers of three female artists who flourished despite the U.S. government’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. By Aruna D’Souza One ...

Her studies in Zen Buddhism and traditional Japanese pottery, led her to approach ceramics using ... Today, her works are in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., ...

Japanese film star Sessue Hayakawa, movie star Anna May Wong, and experimental physicist Chien-Shiung Wu. Artists of Asian American descent and their art are featured throughout our museums. The book ...

They include portraits, a 19th-century hand-drawn map of Okinawa, and various pieces of pottery ... the Smithsonian Institute, the artifacts were properly packaged for transport back to Japan.

Catalog Number 1978.64.1; Negative Number 77-13227 Information or research assistance regarding Pennsylvania ceramics is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution ... Abraham, Evelyn. "The ...