Professional Activities
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Obata, Chiura
setName: label: See more items in
content: Chiura Obata papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.5 Linear feet (Boxes 1-2, 6, OV 4)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1913
label: Date
content: 1924-1967
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.obatchiu, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is arranged in chronological order.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of this series has been digitized. Materials which have not been digitized include blank pages, blank versos of photographs, duplicates, and student grades. In some cases, exhibition catalogs and other publications have had their covers, title pages, and relevant pages digitized.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The professional activities series contains materials related to Obata's work as an artist and art educator, including records from his time teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, to the Tanforan and Topaz Art Schools he established, and documents about other activities within the relocation centers. Most of the series consists of teaching files, but there are other files on projects and commissions such as his set design for Madame Butterfly, art inventory lists, and the donation of a painting to the Japanese American Citizens League.