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About the Event 

Na Omi Shintani creates to express and understand her family’s time in the Tule Lake American Concentration Camp during WWII. Art and storytelling offers a deeper way to connect to history and compassion, going beyond the history textbook.

About the Speaker

     Na Omi Shintani’s artistic career focuses on community engagement, art concerning culture, the Japanese American Incarceration, and women’s issues. Shintani has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally including at the Canadian Anthropology Society CUBA Conference in Santiago, Cuba, Fresno State, JFKU, Springfield College, MA, University of Pittsburgh, Station Museum in Houston, Santa Fe Art Institute, Peninsula Museum of Art in Burlingame, 516 Arts in Albuquerque, artExchange Gallery in Seattle, the San Francisco Presidio. She recently had a solo exhibition at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, CA. Shintani earned her Masters in Arts & Consciousness, Transformative Art from JFK University, Berkeley and her Bachelor’s of Science in Graphic Design from San Jose State University.

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