Leina Fieleke '21

Summer 2019

Anti-nuclear Art Activism in the Context of Maruki Museum

During summer of 2019, Leina will work as a curatorial intern at the Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels in Saitama, Japan. The Maruki Gallery was established by artists Iri and Toshi Maruki, who went into Hiroshima just three days after the bombing. Shocked by the disaster of warfare, they spent 30 years painting the Hiroshima Panels, which currently reside at the Maruki Museum, and were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.

Leina will be working under Yukinori Okamura, director and curator of the Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels. Through her research on the Hiroshima Panels, Leina hopes to learn more about the importance and impact of anti-nuclear art in Japan and internationally.