Curator Talk
Noguchi and Japanese American Internment During World War II
Saturday, November 14, 2026 from 1—2 pm
Know before you go
Location: Morse Auditorium
Free with preregistration
Japanese Americans arrive at Poston, Arizona in May of 1942. Photo by Fred Clark. Courtesy of the National Archives.
Join curator and scholar Christina Hiromi Hobbs for a talk examining Isamu Noguchi's voluntary incarceration at the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona during World War II. Hobbs will discuss Noguchi's complex motivations for entering the camp, discuss its impact on his life and work and examine the historical context of art making during Japanese American incarceration.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated in internment camps created on U.S. soil. Many lived there for the duration of the war. Read more about their stories — and why their experiences still matter today — from the Densho documentation project and Poston Preservation.
This program is supported by the Lowell Institute.
Christina Hiromi Hobbs
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