Past Exhibitions

Curated primarily from Monterey Museum of Art's permanent collection, this exhibition illustrates the local artistic response to Executive Order 9066 of 1942. The artworks in this exhibition work together in groups to tell differing and diverse stories of life in Monterey during this time period. Ephemera from the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) and local private collections help to tie together the stories of artistic alliance and advocacy for the return of Japanese Americans to their homes in Monterey, California.

About the Curator

Jane Dini, PhD, is a Curator and Art Historian with a distinguished career in American art. Dini has served as the Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Associate Curator of American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Assistant Curator of American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. As a peer-reviewed author, notable publications include Sargent and Italy (Princeton, 2008), Dance: American Art, 1830–1960 (Yale, 2016), and Louise Nevelson, The World Outside (Yale, 2023).

Dini has held curatorial fellowships at the Harvard University Art Museums and the Smithsonian American Art Museum and was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. She earned both her MA and PhD in art history from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Support for the Winter 2026 Exhibition Season provided by Suzanne Taunt.

Support for this exhibition provided by Judith Marshall.

Sam B. Colburn (1909–1993), Net Menders, 1942, watercolor and graphite on paper, 14.75 x 22.5 inches, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California, MMA Acquisition Fund Purchase, 1992.175. © Estate of Bolton Colburn