Author(s): Nancy Chikaraishi
Life Interrupted: Art for Social Change is a crossdisciplinary project that connected the JapaneseAmerican Internment Camps of World War II totoday’s issues of discrimination, racial prejudice,xenophobia, and civil rights violations. This paperdiscusses the interactive art installation with studentsthat engaged the public to participate in theproject for a deeper understanding of the social justiceissues. The goal of this project was to not onlyeducate people about the internment camps butalso to move people to be more tolerant and acceptingof all persons and to give us hope for the future.
Volume Editors
Urs Peter Flueckiger & Victoria McReynolds
ISBN
978-1-944214-16-6