Collective Agency and Resistance during Japanese American Incarceration
The Amache Silk Screen Shop
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This book provides the first history of the Silk Screen Shop (1943-45) at the Granada War Relocation Center (“Amache”) in Colorado, a World War II incarceration site for Japanese Americans. The Shop printed training posters for the Bureau of Naval Personnel. In addition, in their free time, the Amache workers designed and printed material, such as dance invitations and Christmas cards, for community organizations and individuals. In the years after incarceration, the objects’ connection to the silk-screen shop was lost. This volume documents and studies the objects produced by the Shop, reconstructs workers’ experience and identity, traces the Shop as a site of community, and argues that young adult printmakers collectively developed subversive visual conventions of protest.
Melissa Geisler Trafton is an art historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century art and visual culture, particularly printed ephemera. Trafton’s scholarship has appeared in a variety of museum publications and academic journals. In collaboration with the Amache Alliance community organization, she has produced a website that reproduces all known screen prints from Amache.
This book provides the first history of the Silk Screen Shop (1943-45) at the Granada War Relocation Center (“Amache”) in Colorado, a World War II incarceration site for Japanese Americans. The Shop printed training posters for the Bureau of Naval Personnel. In addition, in their free time, the Amache workers designed and printed material, such as dance invitations and Christmas cards, for community organizations and individuals. In the years after incarceration, the objects’ connection to the silk-screen shop was lost. This volume documents and studies the objects produced by the Shop, reconstructs workers’ experience and identity, traces the Shop as a site of community, and argues that young adult printmakers collectively developed subversive visual conventions of protest.
Documents the prints made by the Silk Screen Shop at Amache and identifies the Japanese American workers of the Shop Provides a case study of young people during internment and importance of collective social and professional identity Discusses collective print-making and its role in the development of an aesthetic of resistance to incarceration
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Melissa Geisler Trafton
Themen in »Collective Agency and Resistance during Japanese American Incarceration«
Japanese-American Internment Japanese-American incarceration Amache War Relocation Center Granada War Relocation Center Japanese-American internment in Colorado Collective printmaking Collective artistic practice Incarceration aesthetics Silkscreen printmaking Screen printing Japanese-American art Naval war posters World War II posters Internment art World War II defense industry
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“Melissa Geisler Trafton has written a compelling history of the Amache Silk Screen Shop. ... I highly recommend the book for its studious work and historical importance ... . The publisher specialises in textbooks and reference materials and the images in this work would have benefitted from better reproductions.” (Lois Harada, Printmaking Today, Issue 134, 2026)
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