Speaking Truth to Power: An Evening with Photographer Taro Yamasaki

  • May 13, 2025 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

  • Dennos Museum Center

    1410 College Drive
    Traverse City, Michigan 49686
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Speaking Truth to Power: An Evening with Photographer Taro Yamasaki

Presented by TC AAPI - a local, grassroots committee
Tuesday May 13th | 5-8:00 PM

5 - 6:00 PM | Appetizers in the museum Sculpture Court
6 - 8:00 PM | Event in Milliken with Taro Yamasaki

Join us for an evening event with Taro Yamasaki, a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist. He has completed many hundreds of assignments for national magazines, newspapers and nonprofit journals, in 48 states and in numerous countries around the world.

Yamasaki has spent much of his 45+ year career telling the devastating human stories of innocents ravaged by war, disease, natural disasters, and the cruelty of tyrants. In 2023, 109 of these photographs were acquired by the Library of Congress for its permanent collection.

Yamasaki has also photographed architecture throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia (resulting in two folio size books) and has spent 3 semesters teaching documentary photography at the University of Michigan School of Art and Design (now the Penny Stamps School of Art and Design), the last two as the "Distinguished Visiting Artist in Residence." 

Event is free and open to the public. It will contain depictions of adults and children who experienced trauma or loss in a war zone. 

Limit 250. Please RSVP.

This program is made possible with support from Northern Michigan E3, Northwestern Michigan College Library and the DEIB Advisory Council, the Traverse City Human Rights Commission, and Oryana Community Co-op, the Dennos Museum Center,  and the Traverse Area District Library.

Image: A 4th grade science class at the Osama El Naggar School in the Gaza city, Khan Yunus, November, 2005.  A student successfully performs an experiment and is cheered by his classmates.  A glass of water topped by a piece of paper is inverted.  Air pressure holds the paper in place and keeps the water from pouring out of the glass, showing that the air pressure holding the paper up is greater than the weight  of the water pushing the paper down. Almost all the Palestinian schools in Khan Yunus have been destroyed by Israeli shelling and bombing since October 7, 2023.  
 

Date & Time

Tue, May 13, 2025 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Venue Details

Dennos Museum Center

1410 College Drive
Traverse City, Michigan 49686 Dennos Museum Center
Dennos Museum Center

The Dennos Museum Center builds community, sparks conversation, and inspires change for audiences of all ages through its exhibitions, programs, and the collection and preservation of art.

Opened in 1991, the Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College is a premier cultural facility in northern Michigan offering a dynamic array of exhibitions and programs in the visual arts, sciences, and performing arts. The Museum includes temporary exhibition and permanent collection galleries, an elegant sculpture court, and a hands-on Discovery Gallery. The permanent collection features regional, national, and international art from the 19th-21st centuries. The Milliken Auditorium hosts events and concerts with performers from around the world. Visit the Museum Store for great shopping, including a fine selection of Inuit art for collectors.

 

The Museum's signature collection is Inuit art of the Canadian Arctic, one of the largest and most historically complete collections of these distinctive sculptures and prints in the United States. A significant collection of outdoor sculptures by noted international and Michigan artists surrounds the Museum on the beautiful campus of Northwestern Michigan College. In 2000, the Dennos Museum Center was recognized by ArtServe Michigan with the Governor's Award for Arts and Culture. The Museum expanded its original building in 2018, adding new galleries and auditorium spaces with wide support from the community.

 

In 2021, the Dennos joined a network of more than 200 other Smithsonian Affiliates in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Panama. Established in 1996, the affiliations program is designed to facilitate a two-way relationship among Smithsonian Affiliates and the Smithsonian to increase discovery and inspire lifelong learning in communities across America. Smithsonian Affiliates are collaborators on many of the Smithsonian’s strategic priorities, adding local content, context, and expertise to national initiatives to help tell a fuller story.


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