JASA News

We are proud to announce that, in October 2017, Impressions 38 received prestigious Honorable Mentions from Folio: magazine for both the Eddie and the Ozzie Awards for design as well as for editorial content in an international field of professional journals.

As the Year of the Dog scampers to a close, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to JASA in 2018! Image shown: Puppies among Bamboo in the Snow, 1784. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch Fund (M.58.9.1-.2). Photo (detail) © Museum Associates/LACMA.

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Kelly McCormick, University of California Los Angeles, has won the 2018 Chino Kaori Memorial Prize for her essay "The Cameraman in a Skirt: Tokiwa Toyoko, the Camera Boom, and the Nude Shooting Session." This Japan Art History Forum prize recognizes outstanding graduate student scholarship in Japanese art history. The prize was established in 2003 in memory of the distinguished art historian Chino Kaori, and is…

This year, not one but two JASA publications were recognized among winners in the publishing industry’s prestigious annual Folio: Awards, announced on October 31. Impressions 37 (2016) received Honorable Mention in the Folio: Eddie Awards for the Full Issue category. Rare Correspondence: Letters from Harry Packard to Edwin Grabhorn 1950–64, the supplementary issue of Impressions 36 (2015), received Honorable Mention in the Folio: Ozzie Awards…

JASA member John Resig—creator of Ukiyo-e.org, the Japanese woodblock print database and search engine, has volunteered to record audio of a selection of JASA lectures and combine it with the slides used by the presenter.  These videos can be watched by anyone interested in Japanese art and culture, and from anywhere in the world.  As a lecture is completed. it will be announced on the…

In New York on May 1,  2014, JASA member John Resig demonstrated the use of of the Ukiyo-e.org Japanese woodblock print database and search engine, a new tool for ukiyo-e researchers, scholars, and collectors that simplifies print research. Click here to view a video of his lecture, The Floating World at Your Finger Tips.

The Israel Museum in Jerusalem is hosting the exhibit “Unfolding Worlds: Japanese Screens from the Gitter-Yelen Collection” through the end of November. JASA Board member Kurt Gitter received the Distinguished Service Award from the United States–Japan Foundation in April.  Click here to read more about Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen, their collection, and the exhibit.

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