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Source: Martha Scott, 785-532-7718, marthas@k-state.edu
Web site: http://www.k-state.edu/bma
News release prepared by: Caitlin Muret, 785-532-7718, cmuret@k-state.edu

Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008

ARTIST ROGER SHIMOMURA TO SPEAK ABOUT HIS WORK AT K-STATE'S BEACH MUSEUM OF ART

MANHATTAN -- When Roger Shimomura was a child, he was among the 120,000 Japanese-Americans who were forced to relocate to U.S. internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Shimomura's family spent two years looking out through a barbed-wire fence at Camp Minidoka in south-central Idaho.

Shimomura's experiences with racism will be the topic of his art talk at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, at Kansas State University's Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art.

In his presentation, "An American Diary," Shimomura will survey his paintings, prints and experimental theater pieces -- a body of work that spans 40 years. The talk is in conjunction with Shimomura's exhibition at the Beach Museum, "Return of the Yellow Peril: A Survey of the Work of Roger Shimomura, 1969-2007." The exhibition opens Friday, Nov. 21, and runs through Feb. 1, 2009, in the museum's Pelton Gallery.

"The talk illustrates how this work has been propelled by various historical and political events, as well as my own physical environment that has been constantly filled with my collections, ranging from Walt Disney memorabilia to World War II stereotypes of Asian people," said Shimomura, a university distinguished professor of art emeritus at the University of Kansas.

The show was curated by William W. Lew, a professor of art at Clemson University and is a thematic review of 63 works. The exhibit is a program of ExhibitionsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance, with funding support from the Kansas Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts.

For more information, contact the Beach Museum of Art at 785-532-7718 or drop by the museum on the southeast corner of the K-State campus at 14th Street and Anderson Avenue. Free visitor parking is available next to the building. Normal museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays; and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. The museum is closed Mondays.