UPDATE
We had a wonderful tag event on Sunday at the Pioneer Ocean View United Church of Christ. The volunteers there completed 5,000 tags!!!!! this included tying the ends of the tags, stamping the text, writing the names- with a few important volunteers organizing and categorizing the tags. The goal of 5,000 tags were reached!!
AND the chicken teriyaki bowls were really great!! Many thanks to the membership of POVUCC for hosting us and to the Fujinami family for planning and organizing the logistics there!
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The Tag Project volunteer event will take place at the Pioneer Ocean View United Church of Christ on Sunday, August 2, 2009. There will be a delicious chicken teriyaki bowl lunch ($6.00) beginning right after worship at approx. 11:15am (Everyone is invited to attend the worship service at 10:00am). The Tag Project will begin after everyone finishes eating at approx. 12pm.
The POVUCC address is - 2550 Fairfield St., San Diego, CA 92110. Just off Hwy 15 - exit at Clairemont Dr, go east. R on Fairfield St and it dead-ends into the church parking lot.
Please RSVP to Coreen Fujinami (858) 414-2269 or povucc@sbcglobal.net for any questions and/or to let us know they're coming; especially to reserve a chicken teriyaki bowl (headcount is very important for the ladies cooking!) I am grateful for Coreen's enthusiasm and help and my mother, Reiko, and my aunt, Tae will be on hand! Be sure to stop by and say hello!!!
Thank you!!!
July 7, 2009
The Tag Project goes to the Tule Lake Pilgrimage
UPDATE:
4000 TAGS FROM TULE LAKE WERE COMPLETED AT THE PILGRIMAGE! Many thanks to Yuki Mathias for rounding all these materials up and taking them to the pilgrimage and bringing them back and shipping to me despite such a busy schedule!! I appreciate it.
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Yuki Mathias has stepped up to the plate and offered to help bring The Tag Project to the Tule Lake Pilgrimage, July 3-5, 2009. She and Keiko Kubo manned a table there with fliers, tags, stamps and a Tule Lake database, with the help of Jun Hanamoto and Peter Yamamoto. Thank you to all who participated and I look forward to working further with your group!!
4000 TAGS FROM TULE LAKE WERE COMPLETED AT THE PILGRIMAGE! Many thanks to Yuki Mathias for rounding all these materials up and taking them to the pilgrimage and bringing them back and shipping to me despite such a busy schedule!! I appreciate it.
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Yuki Mathias has stepped up to the plate and offered to help bring The Tag Project to the Tule Lake Pilgrimage, July 3-5, 2009. She and Keiko Kubo manned a table there with fliers, tags, stamps and a Tule Lake database, with the help of Jun Hanamoto and Peter Yamamoto. Thank you to all who participated and I look forward to working further with your group!!
June 29, 2009
"Tag Project" at Minidoka Pilgrimage 2009
The Tag Project was at the Minidoka Pilgrimage, June 26-28 2009, thanks to Roger Shimomura, who had the daunting task of hauling my tags to the pilgrimage from Kansas, printing and delegating names to volunteers, stamping tags...
"...I got 4 hours of sleep each night of the pilgrimage working on this but still attended all the mandatory sessions. 3 of us sacrificed the social event to stamp, stamp, stamp. Everyone....was extremely supportive of your project and hoped that they would be informed of its eventual future...."
Thank you, Roger for overseeing this, and thank you to all at Minidoka who helped!! Roger was going to send me names of the new volunteers, and I will be posting this to this website as soon as possible!!
Happy Fourth of July everyone!!
Roger Shimomura's work has inspired me for a long time. He is one of few contemporary Japanese American artists who have embraced the pain of internment. I am deeply honored to have Roger's help in this project.
"...I got 4 hours of sleep each night of the pilgrimage working on this but still attended all the mandatory sessions. 3 of us sacrificed the social event to stamp, stamp, stamp. Everyone....was extremely supportive of your project and hoped that they would be informed of its eventual future...."
Thank you, Roger for overseeing this, and thank you to all at Minidoka who helped!! Roger was going to send me names of the new volunteers, and I will be posting this to this website as soon as possible!!
Happy Fourth of July everyone!!
Roger Shimomura's work has inspired me for a long time. He is one of few contemporary Japanese American artists who have embraced the pain of internment. I am deeply honored to have Roger's help in this project.
June 28, 2009
Volunteer Groups Wanted!
If you and your local organization would like to host an event to support The Tag Project, please do not hesitate to contact me. I can create a kit that would include up to 4000 tags, stamps, inkpads, posters, and databases. I am willing to ship kits like these anywhere in the continental US and Hawaii. I have sent these to Pilgrimages and Camp Reunions.
I am also willing to travel to the Los Angeles Area to participate in these events. The event will also include a presentation of how I came to this project as an artist, and how other artists have inspired me. In San Diego we are planning four events in the next two months, to take place at the Ocean View Pioneer United Church, Buddhist Temple of San Diego, The Japanese Friendship Garden/Craft Group, and San Diego State University's Asian Pacific Student Alliance.
I am also interested in involving other college Nikkei Groups and Asian American Student Organizations.
I am also willing to travel to the Los Angeles Area to participate in these events. The event will also include a presentation of how I came to this project as an artist, and how other artists have inspired me. In San Diego we are planning four events in the next two months, to take place at the Ocean View Pioneer United Church, Buddhist Temple of San Diego, The Japanese Friendship Garden/Craft Group, and San Diego State University's Asian Pacific Student Alliance.
I am also interested in involving other college Nikkei Groups and Asian American Student Organizations.
April 21, 2009
The Tag Project - Progress
August 21, 2009 - In one summer I now have about 10,000 tags in various stages of completion - there are about 5,000 finished tags are now shown in this photo. It is also getting REAL heavy and I wonder what an additional 8,000 tags added to this one will look like, in order to complete this grouping, which will eventually include all internees at the Poston camp.
April 15, 2009 I realized that I was going to have to implement a grassroots campaign for volunteers! between teaching and working on studio work The Tag Project was crawling along.
January 3, 2009 - I had completed this while in NY with a handful of volunteers.
About the Artist
I am an artist and educator from San Diego, California and have been making furniture and sculpture since 1970. My various bodies of work are often inspired by extended residencies and visits to various countries such as France, England, Japan, Korea and China.
For the past 15 years my work has taken on stylistic influences from Asia. Born in La Junta, Colorado, to second-generation Japanese American parents, I've made several pilgrimages to the land of her heritage, Japan. At times reverent of Japan’s craft history and advanced technology, and appalled by Japan’s self-indulgent, materialistic and almost faceless and patriarchal society, Maruyama vacillates between creating works that both emulate and satirize contemporary Japan.
My newest work, "Executive Order 9066" is hitting closer to home - the work is influenced by personal and family history and addresses the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans in 1942. This event dramatically changed the Japanese American psyche and is to this day is still a vague segment of history to most Americans.
Most of my work can be seen at http://www.wendymaruyama.com
For the past 15 years my work has taken on stylistic influences from Asia. Born in La Junta, Colorado, to second-generation Japanese American parents, I've made several pilgrimages to the land of her heritage, Japan. At times reverent of Japan’s craft history and advanced technology, and appalled by Japan’s self-indulgent, materialistic and almost faceless and patriarchal society, Maruyama vacillates between creating works that both emulate and satirize contemporary Japan.
My newest work, "Executive Order 9066" is hitting closer to home - the work is influenced by personal and family history and addresses the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans in 1942. This event dramatically changed the Japanese American psyche and is to this day is still a vague segment of history to most Americans.
Most of my work can be seen at http://www.wendymaruyama.com
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