Pima County Library – Caviglia-Arivaca Library

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1942 WWII Executive Order 9066 forced the removal of nearly 125,000 Japanese-American citizens from the west coast, incarcerating them in ten remote internment camps in seven states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. Government photographers Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, and Ansel Adams documented the internment, and artists Toyo Miyatake, […]

Mexico/New Spain in the 17th and 18th centuries was an area that enjoyed enormous economic prosperity.  Each year trading ships from China brought goods to Mexico in exchange for New World silver.  Stylistic features and design of many trade items influenced artists and designers working in Mexico.  Mexican ceramics displayed the impact of galleon trade […]