Grace Amemiya
Object NamePortrait
Artist / Maker
Rose Frantzen
((American, b. 1965))
Date2016
MediumOil on board
Dimensions15 × 15 × 2 in. (38.1 × 38.1 × 5.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineCommissioned by University Museums. Sponsored by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. In the Art on Campus Collection, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Object numberU2017.96
Status
On viewCultureAmerican
Label TextFor more than 70 years, Grace Obata Amemiya has kept alive the story of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Countless times she has shared her firsthand experience of the impact of this controversial chapter of American wartime history — always told without a trace of bitterness, but instead with a spirit of advocacy for peace and justice. In 2016, she was inducted into the Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame. In 2015, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs honored her with the Foreign Minister’s Commendation in Honor of the 70th Anniversary of the End of the War, for her contributions to promote mutual understanding and friendship.
Locations
- (not entered) Iowa State University, Parks Library, 2nd Floor
