Double Take: Pictures of Belonging
- Cost
- Free | Registration encouraged
Registration will open one month before the program date. - Event Location
- Meet in G Street Lobby
- Categories
- Building
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Part of series
In this gallery talk, learn more about the World War II-era works of artist Hisako Hibi with Melissa Ho, curator of twentieth-century art at SAAM, and Noriko Sanefuji, museum specialist at the National Museum of American History. These paintings, featured in the exhibition Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, were created by Hibi when she and thousands of other Japanese Americans were incarcerated in government-run camps due to their heritage.
This program is part of the Double Take series where Smithsonian specialists from different disciplines team up to talk about artworks from SAAM’s collection.
Image credit: Hisako Hibi, Floating Clouds, 1944, oil on canvas, 19 1/16 × 23 × 1 1/2 in. (48.4 × 58.4 × 3.8 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, 2023.6.1, © 2024, Ibuki Hibi Lee
This program is part of the Double Take series where Smithsonian specialists from different disciplines team up to talk about artworks from SAAM’s collection.
Image credit: Hisako Hibi, Floating Clouds, 1944, oil on canvas, 19 1/16 × 23 × 1 1/2 in. (48.4 × 58.4 × 3.8 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, 2023.6.1, © 2024, Ibuki Hibi Lee
Exhibitions
November 15, 2024–August 17, 2025
Pictures of Belonging celebrates three trailblazing Japanese American women artists and asserts their rightful place in American art.