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California Museum Explores Youth Incarceration in the Golden State in New Exhibition

California Museum Explores Youth Incarceration in the Golden State in New Exhibition

Last week, the California Museum in Sacramento explored the unfortunate moment of where Japanese Americans were incarcerated in government-approved camp, throughout the duration of World War II. On January 20th, the museum explores another kind of incarceration.

Titled Small as a Giant, this exhibition will feature stories of California teens, who were sentenced to life in prison before the age…

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California Museum Presents Documenting World War II Japanese Internment

California Museum Presents Documenting World War II Japanese Internment

As America became involved in World War II following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, there was a time where Japanese Americans were relocated to concentration camps. And in the eyes of one photographer, life in one of those camps is documented.

At the California Museum in Sacramento, the exhibition Behind the Glass Eyefeatures the work of Los Angeles-based photographer Toyo Miyatake…

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Questions to ask when looking at...

An artist statement and biography

What is the voice and tone of the writing? (e.g. casual, formal, academic)

What perspective is the writing? (e.g. first person, third person)

How long is the writing? Could it be more effectively said in fewer words?

How are biographical details and artistic themes integrated?

A CV or résumé

How easily can the CV be found?

What format is it in (e.g. PDF document, Word document, html, combination)

Is there contact information?

What are the main sub-headings? (if any)

Look at the listings. Are they formatted in a way that is easy to understand?

Is there too much information? Or too little?

Images (or photo documentation)

Do you know what the object is that the photograph represents?

What is it made of?

How big or small is it?

Is it 2D or 3D?

What do you think they are trying to communicate through their documentation? Does it match their artistic aims?

If it is 2D work, is it straight and level? If it is 3D work, is the angle logical?

Is there anything distracting in the background or do other props add to the image?

Does the artist use details and/or a series of images to document a piece?

Is it properly labelled? (Advanced: check the “alt” attribute of the image tag and see what the name of the image is. Or, if you go to “save as”, what is the image’s filename?)