Interment Camp Art

                                                                         
     Today in class I found watching that video of the lady and the incredible art she composed inside the interment camp was very inspiring. I think it is much more interesting to see a situation through an artists point of view than a simple photograph.
     So after class today I went in search of art and other artists that were in the same situation in the internment camps. I found Chizuko Judy Sugita Queiroz who was just a girl when her family was placed inside an interment camp. Her art has been placed in many displays and she also wrote a book Camp days 1942-1945. George Takei said this about her book “This collection of paintings by the gifted artist, Chizuko Judy Sugita de Quieroz, is her memoir in art of her girlhood years imprisoned in a camp called Poston in the desolation of a desert in Arizona. Despite the harshness of their condition, Chizuko and her family struggled to create beauty. She remembers her father carving wooden birds—he shaped fine jewelry from found stones with mail order lapidary tools. Her sister was a painter, capturing in art the magnificence of the desert sunsets."

In the links below are her website with the art collection that was placed in display along with her history as an artist and also the book she has written about her life inside the camp.

http://www.artbychiz.com/campdays_index.html
http://janmstore.com/150855.html