Utah Arts & Museums will open the traveling exhibit "Topaz: Artists in Internment, Their Visual Work and Words" Jan. 13 at the Rio Gallery.
The Rio Gallery is at 300 S. Rio Grande St. (455 West) in Salt Lake City.
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A public reception will be Friday, Jan. 20, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. during the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll.
There will be a screening of the short documentary "Days of Waiting," poetry reading by former Oregon poet laureate Lawson Inada, and an opportunity to honor descendants and survivors of the internment experience.
The exhibit will continue until Feb. 10 during state office hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.
"Topaz: Artists in Internment" will feature artwork created during internment at the Topaz War Relocation Center near Delta, Utah, on loan from the Topaz Museum. Artwork by Chiura Obata, Setsu Nagata Kanehara, Charles Erabu Mikami, Miné Okubo, Thomas Ryosaku Matsuoka, Yajiro Okamoto, Kenji Utsumi and Kaneo Kido will be shown alongside the poetry of Lawson Inada. Inada was interned with his parents in camps in Fresno, Calif., Arkansas and Colorado, and was Oregon’s poet laureate from 2006 to 2010.
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