| title | Katherine Megumi Shozawa collection |
| general material designation | sound recordings, objects, and other materials |
| extent | 23 sound recordings, 13 objects, and other materials |
| date | 1994-1995 |
| scope and content | The collection consists of interviews of New Denver elders as part of Mrs Shozawa's art project titled, "Memory Boxes: Stories from New Denver" On her website the artist discusses the project as follows:
Memory Boxes is a community-based project created collaboratively with Japanese Canadian elders who endured incarceration during World War II. The project traveled to schools and community groups across Canada and the US. Oral histories are housed permanently at resource centers at the Nikkei Internment Memorial Center; the Japanese Canadian National Museum (now the Nikkei National Museum); the Japanese American National Museum; and the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience.
The collection also includes thirteen Memory Boxes and a final report for the project completed in October 1995. |
| biography | Katherine Shozawa is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist whose practice integrates community-based investigation and performance. She participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program after completing her MFA in Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. She has exhibited widely in New York, Boston, Seattle and Vancouver, and received generous support from the Lannan Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the National Association of Japanese Canadians Endowment Fund - Community Development Grant, and the Charles P Howland Fellowship, Yale University.
- katherineshozawa.com |
| number | 2013.1 |
| organisation | Nikkei National Museum |
| access | Open |