Bears in History: The Forgotten Impact of the Japanese American Internment at UC Berkeley, 2019.
This project installs on campus three life-sized figures of people from Cal whose lives intersected with the Japanese American internment: Yoshiko Uchida, a senior who was imprisoned at Topaz and who later became a well known writer; Mine Okubo, an art student also interned at Topaz who later published the celebrated visual record of camp life, "Citizen 13660"; and Monroe Deutsch, the provost who worked valiantly to protect and support interned students and who publicly affirmed their identity as members of the Cal community. The figures are placed in different locations across campus where students, staff, and administration will encounter them in the course of a regular day to allow viewers to realize that the internment happened to actual members of the Cal community who were pulled out of their lives of work and study and placed in prison camps.
Daniel Acevedo Garcia
Undeclared UG, Letters & Sci, 2021
Sarah Cortas
Undeclared UG, Letters & Sci, 2022
Aivant Goyal
B.A. Computer Science, 2020
Chris Iba
B.A. Computer Science, 2020
Quinn Iverson
B.S. Nuclear Engineering, 2021
Nikhil Jain
B.A. Computer Science, 2020
Capri Krug
Undeclared UG, Letters & Sci, 2022
Kevin Li
B.S. Electrical Eng & Comp Sci, 2021
Amy Oh
Undeclared UG, Letters & Sci, 2021
Ryan Searcy
B.S. Electrical Eng & Comp Sci, 2020
Julia Tjan
Undeclared UG, Letters & Sci, 2021
Riley Togashi
B.S. Chemical Biology, 2021
Michelle Zhou
Undeclared UG, Letters & Sci, 2022