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The Japanese American Museum of San Jose Presents

Camp Days 1942 - 1945

Childhood Memories of Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz

This special JAMsj exhibition runs from October 16 - April 30, 2010

 

  
 

"There were armed guards everywhere when we were taken to the concentration camps."

  
     
 
"This collection of paintings by the gifted artist, Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz, is her memoir in art of her girlhood years imprisoned in a camp called Poston in the desolation of a desert in Arizona...
Chizuko's art is a powerful narrative of a shameful event in our history. It is also an evocative personal chronicle of the survival of a loving and resilient family."
  - George Takei

Camp Days Special Events

This special exhibition by will be accompanied by two special events hosted by the artist Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz on October 17:

SLIDE SHOW PRESENTATION: Sunday, October 17, 2010, 1 - 2 p.m.
Question and Answer session to follow.

WATERCOLOR DEMONSTRATION: Sunday, October 17, 2010, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Open to all ages. Registration is required. Please contact the JAMsj office at (408) 294-3138 to register.

Chiz, who recently retired from teaching in Southern California, was nine-years old when she and her family were uprooted from their home and incarcerated at Poston, Arizona. Haunted by her past, she began to reconstruct her childhood camp experience through interviews with older siblings, relatives, and friends. She expressed her feelings and insights in a series of vivid watercolors. In 2004, she published "Camp Days 1942-1945, " a best-selling book.

  The exhibit will be on display for 6 months. At the museum's book store Chiz's Camp Days books, reproductions of Camp Days paintings, and Camp Days note cards will be on sale.0,

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A Good American

Being locked up behind barbed wire, with armed guards, made me feel sad-- like maybe I wasn't really a good American.

30 p.m.
Workshop with Student participation.

  
     
  For more information, contact Aggie Idemoto at 408-268-4440 or aggie@jamsj.org.

Links: Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz website