The School of Art, Art History & Design is pleased to welcome photographer Kevin Miyazaki at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 5th in Richards Hall 15. Miyazaki will give a lecture about his work, which relates to Japanese-American internment during WWII.
Kevin Miyazaki is a fourth generation Japanese-American. His childhood, in an overwhelmingly white suburb of Milwaukee, created a desire to examine his ethnicity and ancestral history. Stories from his family infuse his artwork, along with themes of immigration, forced migration, and social/economic mobility. Of particular interest is the incarceration of his father’s family and 120,000 Japanese Americans by the U.S. Government during World War ll.
Miyazaki’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Griffin Museum of Photography, The Haggerty Museum of Art, Center for Photography at Woodstock and the The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. He teaches at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and works as a freelance editorial photographer with clients including The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Food Network Magazine, AARP and Smithsonian.
"Echo," a new body of work by Miyazaki, will be exhibited at Workspace Gallery in Lincoln NE from Sept. 7- Nov. 8. There will be a First Friday opening reception on Sept. 7, from 6-8:00 p.m., including a gallery talk with the artist at 7:00 p.m. Workspace Gallery is located in the Sawmill Building at 440 N. 8th St.
"Echo" is presented as part of the For Freedoms "50 State Initiative." Inspired by American artist Norman Rockwell’s paintings of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms (1941)—freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear— For Freedoms Federation is a platform for greater participation in the arts and in civil society. They produce exhibitions, installations, public programs, and billboard campaigns to advocate for inclusive civic participation and they use art to encourage and deepen public explorations of freedom in the 21st century.