Karen L. Ishizuka Explained

Karen L. Ishizuka
Education:Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2015
Alma Mater:San Diego State UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Known For:Independent writer, media producer, and chief curator of the Japanese American National Museum.

Karen L. Ishizuka is an independent writer, curator, and documentary producer. She is a third-generation Japanese American and her family was incarcerated during World War II.[1] [2]

Education and career

Ishizuka earned a Master of Social Work degree from San Diego State University. She began her Ph.D. in the late 1970s but left to do on-the-ground community work focused on Asian American history, culture and community. Over three decades later, Ishizuka went back to school, earning her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2015.[3] [4]

She is the author of Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties[5] and Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration. Ishizuka was also the coeditor, alongside Patricia R. Zimmermann, of Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories.[6]

Ishizuka has served as a media producer, curator, and director of the Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM). She created the Photographic and Moving Image Archive at the Museum. In 2016, Ishizuka and Robert A. Nakamura, her filmmaking partner and husband, received the inaugural JANM Legacy Award. In 2018, Ishizuka was appointed to the position of Chief Curator.[7] [3]

As an advocate for home movies as an important form of documentation for people of color often overlooked by mass media, Ishizuka has produced film installations that feature home movies including Through Our Own Eyes (1992), a three-screen video installation featuring home movies taken by early Issei in America in the 1920s and 1930s,[8] and Something Strong Within (1994), which contained home movies taken by inmates in the World War II camps.

Works

References

  1. Web site: Karen L. Ishizuka . Rewire.News . November 22, 2016 . 2020-05-21.
  2. Web site: Visiting Artist Lecture: Karen L. Ishizuka . Syracuse University . September 17, 2020.
  3. Web site: Japanese American National Museum Appoints Karen Ishizuka Chief Curator . Unger . Leslie . Japanese American National Museum . June 6, 2018 . 2020-05-21.
  4. PhD . Ishizuka . Karen L. . 2015 . "Gidra", the Dissident Press and the Asian American Movement: 1969 - 1974 . UCLA.
  5. Web site: Verso . www.versobooks.com . 2020-05-21.
  6. Book: Mining the Home Movie . en.
  7. Web site: JANM Announces Honorees and Theme for 2017 Annual Gala Dinner . Unger . Leslie . January 11, 2016 . Japanese American National Museum .
  8. Web site: Media Arts Japanese American National Museum . www.janm.org. 2020-05-21.
  9. Wallace . Joshua . Social Science . Library Journal . April 1, 2016 . 141 . 6.
  10. A Review of: 'Ishizuka, K. L., & Zimmermann, P. R. Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories . Pat . Conway . Journal of Family Social Work . 11 . 344–345 . October 11, 2008 . 10.1080/10522150802292673 . 145557954 .
  11. News: Screening Room . Thomas . Kevin . October 18, 2001 . Los Angeles Times . F.34 . Karen Ishizuka's eloquent, deeply moving "Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray" screens Wednesday through Oct. 30 in at varying hours in "Doctober," the International Documentary Assn.'s fifth annual festival of films in their Oscar-qualifying one-week runs. .

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