(60 min.) This documentary, from the award-winning series Art in the Twenty-First Century, features behind-the-scenes conversations with contemporary artists Charles Atlas, Kara Walker, Kiki Smith, Do-Ho Suh, and Trenton Doyle Hancock in their studios, homes, and communities.
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• David Mura presents his debut novel Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire, about a self-proclaimed itinerant historian who must delve into his own family's past -- populated by both a 442nd survivor with a Purple Heart and a No-No Boy -- to understand how his parents' youthful experiences shaped not only their lives, but also the lives of subsequent generations.

• Kiyo Sato discusses her award-winning memoir Dandelion Through the Crack: The Sato Family Quest for the American Dream, which tells the story of a Japanese American family from California who survives the Great Depression only to live through the challenges of being imprisoned at Poston Relocation Camp during World War II.

• Shirley Castelnuovo discusses Soldiers of Conscience: Japanese American Military Resisters in World War II, which tells the story of men who were deployed in a segregated battalion in the U.S. Army to clean up property that had been damaged during training missions in the United States. The men were assigned to this unit after protesting the mass imprisonment of their Japanese American families during WWII.

• Cedrick Shimo, one of the resisters in Soldiers of Conscience, who also wrote the foreword to the book, will also participate.
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