{"id":1358,"date":"2010-03-12T08:33:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T13:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2015-12-27T01:07:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T06:07:56","slug":"gaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2010\/03\/gaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was unfamiliar with the arts that came out of the Japanese American Internment Camps. This is the theme of <a title=\"Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum of American Art\" href=\"http:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/renwick\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Renwick<\/a> exhibit, <a title=\"Gaman exhibit\" href=\"http:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/exhibitions\/archive\/2010\/gaman\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Art of Gaman, Arts and Creafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942 &#8211; 1946<\/em><\/a>. There are more than 120 pieces that were produced by the prisoners to lessen the grimness of their camp life. These include musical instruments, household ornaments, teapots and craft objects. Gaman in Japanese means &#8220;to bear the seemingly unbearable with dignity and patience.&#8221; I&#8217;ve just added a new word to my vocabulary. This new discovery, new word of the day and these birds are very inspirational for <a title=\"Melodius March on casartblog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.casartcoverings.com\/casartblog\/archives\/2487\" target=\"_blank\">one of my new designs<\/a> that I&#8217;m working on for <a title=\"Casart coverings website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.casartcoverings.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Casart coverings<\/a>. I couldn&#8217;t have asked for better timing. This is exhibit is on view from March 5 &#8211; January 30, 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/03\/gaman_birds_wpmag_blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1361\" title=\"Gaman birds via Wahington Post Magazine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/03\/gaman_birds_wpmag_blog.jpg\" alt=\"Gaman birds via Wahington Post Magazine\" width=\"266\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gaman_birds_wpmag_blog.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gaman_birds_wpmag_blog-138x300.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a side note, since this article was also in the <em>Washington Post Magazine<\/em>, this is a sad, but inspirational article about Frank Connell in <a title=\"What Every Happened to Red Bean Owner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/19\/AR2010021903359.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Whatever Happened to The Red Bean&#8217;s Owner<\/em><\/a> by Tyler Currie. He has closed up his restaurant in DC and despite many adversities he&#8217;s back in the city he loves, New Orleans, making the best of it with moving onto other goals. His story is typical of someone from New Orleans &#8212; they are strong, sometimes eccentric folk, who make the best of it and move forward when things are tough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/03\/frankconnell_wp_blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1362\" title=\"Frank Connell via Washington Post\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/03\/frankconnell_wp_blog.jpg\" alt=\"Frank Connell via Washington Post\" width=\"228\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It seems like <a title=\"Peter Murphy Cuts You Up on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bpz2AWu4PZg\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Murphy&#8217;s <em>Cuts You Up<\/em> from his Wild Birds album<\/a> is an appropriate music to <a title=\"Kick-Start Your weekend posts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?cat=543\" target=\"_blank\">Kick Start Your Weekend<\/a>. Enjoy a good blast from the past.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bpz2AWu4PZg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was unfamiliar with the arts that came out of the Japanese American Internment Camps. This is the theme of The Renwick exhibit, The Art of Gaman, Arts and Creafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942 &#8211; 1946. There are more than 120 pieces that were produced by the prisoners to lessen the grimness of their camp life. These include musical instruments, household ornaments, teapots and craft objects. Gaman in Japanese means &#8220;to bear the seemingly unbearable with dignity and patience.&#8221; I&#8217;ve just added a new word to my vocabulary. This new discovery, new word of the day and these birds are very inspirational for one of my new designs that I&#8217;m working on for Casart coverings. I couldn&#8217;t have asked for better timing. This is exhibit is on view from March 5 &#8211; January 30, 2011. On a side note, since this article was also in the Washington Post Magazine, this is a sad, but inspirational article about Frank Connell in Whatever Happened to The Red Bean&#8217;s Owner by Tyler Currie. He has closed up his restaurant in DC and despite many adversities he&#8217;s back in the city he loves, New Orleans, making the best of it with moving onto other goals. His story is typical of someone from New Orleans &#8212; they are strong, sometimes eccentric folk, who make the best of it and move forward when things are tough. It seems like Peter Murphy&#8217;s Cuts You Up from his Wild Birds album is an appropriate music to Kick Start Your Weekend. 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