Public Events/Presentations

Museum Displays

Dan

a Shew and Adrian Praetzellis were awarded a Common Heritage grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of the Amache Digitization Project. The project focuses on digitizing photographs, objects, documents, and memories to preserve and share the experiences of World War II Japanese American internment at Colorado’s internment camp, Amache.

Dana organized an exhibit at the Sonoma State Library Art Gallery, “Creativity Unconfined: Life in a WWII Japanese American Internment Camp,” to highlight the objects that were discovered during the project’s digitization phase, and explored creativity and art in Colorado’s WWII Japanese American incarceration camp. It was open to the public during Fall 2016. The well-attended opening reception featured presentations that included Amache descendants as well as Sonoma State University President Dr. Judy Sakaki.