Full Description
Los Angeles's Japanese American National Museum, established in 1992, remains the only museum in the United States expressly dedicated to sharing the story of Americans of Japanese ancestry. The National Museum is a unique institution that operates in collaboration with other institutions, museums, researchers, audiences, and funders. In this collection of seventeen essays, anthropologists, art historians, museum curators, writers, designers, and historians provide case studies exploring collaboration with community-oriented partners in order to document, interpret, and present their histories and experiences and provide a new understanding of what museums can and should be in the United States.Current scholarship in museum studies is generally limited to interpretations by scholars and curators. Common Ground brings descriptive data to the intellectual canon and illustrates how museum institutions must be transformed and recreated to suit the needs of the twenty-first century.
Contents
CONTENTS Preface Akemi Kikumura-Yano, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi and James A. Hirabayashi vii Introduction: Commitment to Community Irene Hirano I. The National Museum: Mission, Leadership and Audience 1. Self-Creation: Defining Cultural Identity Within Museum Exhibitions Clement Hanami 2. Home Movies: Cultural Recovery and the Agency of Display Karen Ishizuka 3. Creating Community-One Voice at a Time: Traveling Exhibition Programs That Help to Create Community Cayleen Nakamura 4. Expanding the Museum Audience Through Visitor Research Carol Komatsuka 5. Community Building Through Fundraising Audrey Lee-Sung 6. Board Development: Fiduciary Responsibility and Collaboration through Strategic Planning Frank L. Ellsworth II. Collaborative Dimensions at the Local and the National Level 7. The National Partnership Program: A Model for Community Collaborations Akemi Kikumura-Yano 8. Coming to Terms: Recovering and Recovering from America's Concentration Camps Karen Ishizuka 9. Finding Family Stories: Institutional Collaborations Claudia Sobral 10. The REgenerations Project: A Comparative Collaboration in Community Oral History Darcie C. Iki and Arthur A. Hansen 11. Dialogues from Common Ground Naomi Hirahara 12. All Roads Lead to Boyle Heights: Exploring a Los Angeles Neighborhood Sojin Kim 13. History, Current Events and a Network Link: The Japanese American National Museum and the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) Irene Hirano III. Collaborative Dimensions in Transnational and Global Settings 14. International Exchanges at Museu Historico da Imigracao Japonesa no Brasil Masato Ninomiya 15. Museum Exhibitions in a Transnational Setting: Collaborations in Education Methodology Yoshi Miki 16. Building Community Through Global Research Akemi Kikumura-Yano, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi and James A. Hirabayashi Conclusion List of Contributors Index
