Wyoming Arts Council

Artist reception this evening for Hatsuko Mary Higuchi at Heart Mountain Interpretive Center


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“GAMAN:  Surviving the Nikkei Gulag and Diaspora in World War II,” featuring the art of Hatsuko Mary Higuchi, will be on display through May 31 at the Heart Mountain Interpretation Center in Park County. This evening at 6 p.m. Higuchi will be at the center for a “meet the artist” event beginning at 6 p.m. Admission is free for members, $5 for the general public. Light refreshments will be served.

Here’s some info on the artist from the HMIC web site:

Hatsuko Mary Higuchi was born in Los Angeles in 1939. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which authorized the mass removal and incarceration of “all persons of Japanese ancestry” on the West Coast. Mary’s family was imprisoned in the U.S. War Relocation Authority’s Colorado River concentration camp at Poston, Arizona, 1942-1945. Mary Higuchi paints a variety of themes such as landscapes, figures, and abstracts. She uses watercolor, acrylic, mixed media, collage, and calligraphy. Her EO 9066 paintings depict faces with anonymous features or none at all, symbolizing the mass anonymity to which over 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry were reduced–denied due process and judged guilty solely by reason of their race. Mary Higuchi’s haunting portraits are a warning that what happened to Japanese Americans is a precedent for similar actions against other groups, unless we remember the lessons of the past.

FMI: http://heartmountain.org/tempexhibits.html


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