Arizona Historical Society

Distance in His Eyes: Stewart Udall & the American Environment

by Carolyn Classen, blogger “Please join us virtually on Tuesday, January 9 at 12 p.m. for the second program in our Arizona Biography Series: The Stuff of Legends. This program will feature Historian Scott Einberger and his presentation, Distance in His Eyes: Stewart Udall and the American Environment. Born into a deeply devout Mormon family … Read more

Last month at TDART for WWII Japanese American internment camp exhibits

Since November, 2016 there have been three art exhibits ongoing at the Tucson Desert Art Museum (TDART) on the WWII Japanese American internment camps, two which were here in Arizona (at Poston and at Gila River).  I posted at the opening:  https://blogforarizona.net/3-exhibitions-at-tucson-desert-art-museum-on-japanese-american-internment-during-wwii/

All exhibits are closing on April 30, 2017.  TDART is open Wed. to Sundays 10 to 4 p.m., 7000 E. Tanque Verde Rd. (west of Sabino Canyon Rd.)

Particularly moving are lovely, solemn watercolors painted by Tokutaro “Kakunen” Tsuruoka (on loan from AZ Historical Society).  Here’s one of Poston Relocation Center with the guard tower and barbed wire fence:

Poston Relocation Center painting by Tokutaro Tsuruoka, photo taken by Carolyn Classen

Also as part of this exhibit,

Art of Circumstance: Art and Artifacts Created by Japanese Americans Incarcerated During WWII

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