Riverside Community College District’s Center for Social Justice & Civil Liberties celebrated Miné Okubo with a retrospective of the artist’s work. Miné Okubo’s Eyes: A Life in Colors included more than fifty paintings and works on paper. The exhibition displayed work which spanned seven decades and makes visible a collection of paintings and drawings never seen by the public.  

 

Okubo, a College alum, bequeathed her works to Riverside City College upon her death in 2001. The Center for Social Justice & Civil Liberties houses the Okubo collection which includes more than 8,000 pieces of artwork, professional and personal papers, photographic materials, and memorabilia. The bulk of the collection stems from Okubo’s last five decades of work. The majority of these pieces was created in her small one-bedroom apartment in the Greenwich Village area of New York City.  

 

For more information about The Center, this exhibition, and the Okubo collection, please visit: https://socialjustice.rccd.edu/. Miné Okubo’s Eyes: A Life in Colors is made possible through the support from the Terra Foundation of American Art. Learn more at: https://www.terraamericanart.org/.