“Japanese/American Art of Chiura Obata UMFA Topaz Internment Camp Art School”
"Japanese/American Art of Chiura Obata UMFA Topaz Internment Camp Art School"
Luke Kelly - associate curator of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts will share the Art of Japanese/American artist Chiura Obata. Obata was a professor of art at UC Berkeley before being held in the Topaz Internment Camp near Delta, Utah. He created an art school of about 700 students there. The Obata family recently gifted 35 of his pieces to the UMFA.
To view the recording of Richard Okabe's "Stories of Topaz" - from May 19th click here
Special thanks to team leader Colleen Bliss for arranging today's Summer Forum
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Masks required (Salt Lake County has moved back into the red Covid zone)
Presentation will be live-streamed on zoom. Click Here for the Zoom Link. Coffee Hour (In person in Eliot Hall and virtual on zoom) will follow the presentation.
Childcare is available on the playground for younger children (potty-trained-5th/6th grade) 10am-11am.
The event is free a $5 donation or whatever you can afford is requested to support the Summer Forum series.
2022/07/10 - 2022/07/10
Additional time info:
There will be a discussion by our panel, followed by a Q&A segment to about 11 AM. Then we will adjourn to our patio for a social hour.
First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City
569 South 1300 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84102