Art 4 Change

Art 4 Change
David Monkawa

50^thYear Commemoration of Japanese American Internment

Distributed by the Japanese American National Museum and available at the JANM Gift store.
Publish in: Newsweek, Los Angeles Times

GIDRA 20^th Anniversary – magazine cover

One of the first politically “radical” newspapers of the Asian American movement.

Distributed by the Japanese American National Museum and available at the JANM Gift store.

Detainee

For Detainees past and present, in concentration camps and detention camps, like Manzanar, Guantanamo or Gaza.

Courtesy of University of California Santa Barbara Asian American Studies Dept

Ktown; Early morning glory shift

About 2 dozen people patrolled an area in LA Koreantown for about 2 years to help combat anti-Asian violence towards the elderly and other vulnerable people.

Gallery

Artwork available

Artworks are manually mouse-drawn via Adobe In-Design and printed out by a Giclee’ printer.A technique that produces a “micro-silk screen” textured effect.
The paper is 100% cotton museum archival bright white cold press. Each print is singularly produced at Dan Rider Studios, LA, CA
Most of the pieces are 11 X 17 inches. DTLA Framing Co. will outfit them with mattes-13 X 19 in. Frames are DIY.
Artworks- Suggested donation: $99 per art piece with 13 x19 matte ready to frame or not.
All profits will go towards the united front against Trump & the billionaire’s fascism, and for democracy, full equality and a system based on people not profits.

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Any and all artworks contained within this website is protected under U.S. copyright laws and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

All artworks on this website are original and done by David Monkawa unless noted otherwise. Although this website is dedicated to displaying the artwork, the people and issues behind the flyers and banners are the important “stars” behind the artworks.

2000 Program cover for “Honoring JA WW2 doctors”. Requested by Naomi Hirahara.

2022- Cane Cotton Corn and Bullwhip

Black slaves got the whip often, but other oppressed peoples share the experience. Japanese, Filipinos & Koreans in Hawaii and Indigenous Indians in CA.

2022- Comfort Woman poster

Yellow butterflies symbolize sexual violence to women. In this case by an invading army of Japanese Imperialism

2022- Far East Café

Slightly drunk Niseis fight over paying the check at Far East Café after a relatives funeral.

2021- Adams Crenshaw Laundromat.

We had fun playing cops and robbers shooting each other like whats on the TV and comix all day.

2022- Come Inside for lemonade the missus is gone

In Westchester, CA most homes with Japanese gardeners had Black maids. Most were kind but the owners were sometimes kind.

2020- International Workers Day poster

many organizations particiated in this webinar.

2020 Incident outside Holiday Bowl

Holiday Bowl bowling alley and restaurant was a popular and iconic hangout for Japanese Americans and African Americans.

2019- No more I.C.E detentions

Many of the detention camps for locking up immigrant families were built on top of native indigenous lands despite protests, like Crystal City, TX where thousands of Latin-American Japanese were interned.