Artist Talk: Show Me the Way to Go Home

Sandy Sugawara and Catiana Garcia Kilroy will be joined by journalist, Kathryn Tolbert, for an artist talk and Q&A session at Glen Echo Photoworks.

"Show Me the Way to Go to Home" is an immersive, visual journey through the incarceration camps that held 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War 2. Photographers Sandy Sugawara and Catiana Garcia Kilroy tell the story of each camp through original and archival photographs, personal stories, and government documents. It’s a frightening tale of a society that failed to protect its vulnerable.

Each camp’s story is printed on exquisite rice paper which is interwoven with dramatic landscapes. The design captures the multilayered feelings of anger, vulnerability, determination, cultural pride, and shared grief of those who lived in these camps. Today’s fragile and disturbing climate of intolerance makes it all the more urgent that this period of our history not be forgotten.

The book also contains poetry by Brandon Shimoda and Christine Kitano, a foreword by civil rights advocate Dr. Karen Korematsu, and an essay by Dr. Donna Nagata, who has conducted important research on the multigenerational consequences of the race-based incarceration of Japanese Americans.

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