2023 Day of Remembrance Artist Showcase

An evening of radical remembrance, visionary storytelling, and community healing featuring three Brilliant Japanese American artists. Join us on Zoom! (Register here)

Presentations by:

TRACI KATO-KIRIYAMA, award-winning multidisciplinary artist, organizer, cultural producer, and author of Navigating With(out) Instruments whose work is grounded in collaborative process, collective self-determination, and art+community.

TT TAKEMOTO, artist, scholar and experimental filmmaker whose work honors queer Asian Americans who lived, loved, and labored together during the prewar era and beyond.

KELLEE MATSUSHITA-TSENG, co-founder of Bitter Cotyledons, a group dedicated to bringing the queer AAPI community together through land stewardship, growing Asian vegetables, and sharing ancestral culinary and cultural traditions. 

Curated and hosted by Patricia Wakida, Nikiko Masumoto, Brynn Saito, and Miya Sommers.

Friday, February 17, 2023

5-6:30PM PST

Register for the virtual event here

Generously funded by the California Wellness Foundation, the Milton Chen W.K. Kellogg Foundation Trustee Fund, and community members – thank you!

With thanks to our fiscal sponsor, the Fresno Arts Council.

“Day of Remembrance” observes the February 19, 1942 signing of Executive Order 9066. You can read more about the commemoration on Densho’s encyclopedia.