Call for stories: Tama Takahashi's Art Show
- Bekka Mongeau
- Apr 27
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 28
Santa Barbara, CA artist and Minidoka descendant, Tama Takahashi, is hosting a solo art show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara of her large-scale photographs of Minidoka plus two sculptural pieces and a video installation.
Part of her show will include a Memory Tree that will stand in tribute to former incarcerees and their descendants. Tama would like to invite survivors, descendants, and their families to share their photos and stories to be included in the Memory Tree.
More specifically, Tama is looking for:
Quotes about personal experience of the pervasive wind for the video installation. These can be text or on video. Just a sentence or two will be fine and the video doesn’t need to be professional quality — shot on a cellphone and messaged to her is fine.
Pictures of yourself and/or your family for the “Memory Tree” which is a hopeful symbol of resilience. Pictures will be printed 2” square, photos do not need to be professional quality.
To submit photos, video, quotes, or stories, please email her at tama@tamatakahashi.com. Please send submissions before May 15th.
The show titled “Memories of Barbed Wire: Resilience in the Japanese American Community” will open Sunday, June 7 and run through the end of July.
About Tama:
Tama is a mixed-media artist in Santa Barbara, CA. Her father’s family was incarcerated in Block 5, Barrack 4 of Minidoka during WWII. She opened her art studio in 2023 after a career in Los Angeles as a camera assistant in film and television. She has shown her art internationally in Japan, Korea and Italy. Tama won an Emerging Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council in 2023 and was included in the Asian Art Contemporary’s listing of international Asian artists. Her next solo show after “Memories of Barbed Wire: Resilience in the Japanese American Community” will be in Gallery 825 in Los Angeles of her modern renditions of byobu--traditional Japanese 24-karat gold screens. Read more about Tama’s art here: https://tamatakahashi.com/
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