Miné Okubo (first name pronounced MEE-NEH), a pioneering Nisei woman, artist and writer, created approximately 2000 drawings and sketches of her experiences while confined along with approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans in US internment camps following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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- Miné Okubo (first name pronounced MEE-NEH), a pioneering Nisei woman, artist and writer, created approximately 2000 drawings and sketches of her experiences while confined along with approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans in US internment camps following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Initially assigned to the Tanforan Assembly Center, a former horse racetrack in San Bruno, California, a few miles south of San Francisco, she and her brother were later sent to the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah. Following her confinement, Miné Okubo relocated to New York and published a book of her experiences, Citizen 13660, which documented, without bitterness, the indignities, struggle and sparse humor of daily life for internees at the camps. Named for the number assigned to her family unit, the book contains over two hundred of her pen and ink sketches accompanied by brief explanatory text. Published in 1946 and in print for more than 50 years since, the book provides a unique perspective on the historical record of the internment. Continuing her career as an artist, Okubo remained in New York where her work later earned numerous awards and brought national recognition. At the time of her death in February 2001, she was living in her canvas-filled apartment near Greenwich Village, in Manhattan.
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- Miné Okubo Avenue, the first street to be renamed by the college, is located on the campus at Riverside City, near the Landis Performing Arts Center. Mary H. Curtin, friend of Okubo and co-author of the play, "Miné: A Name for Herself," had recommended Miné for the renaming.
- Riverside Junior College later became Riverside Community College. Miné attended the Riverside City campus.
- Seiko Buckingham, Miné's niece and executor for the estate, assisted with the inventory and transfer of items to the college.
- While cameras in the possession of internees were regarded as contraband, photos taken by internees have been published. Official photos have also been published by news media and government sources. Rules regarding cameras varied among the camps and were revised over time.
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- Master of Fine Arts, University of California at Berkeley (1938);
Studied under Fernand Léger in Paris; Diego Rivera in San Francisco
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- ''Isseis Lost Everything'' (painting, 1944);
''Citizen 13660'' (book, 1946, reprinted, 1973, 1983);
''Mother and Cat'' (painting, 1949);
Numerous works in pen and ink, oil, watercolor, tempera and gouache
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- Miné Okubo (first name pronounced MEE-NEH), a pioneering Nisei woman, artist and writer, created approximately 2000 drawings and sketches of her experiences while confined along with approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans in US internment camps following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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