Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey
{{short description|American water color artist and author}}
Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey is an American watercolor artist and author.
Biography
Born in 1932,{{cite web | title=Japanese American Internee Data File: Yuriko Nakai|url=https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=3099&mtch=90&tf=F&q=Nakai&bc=&sort=30012%20desc&rpp=50&pg=2&rid=55689&rlst=55699,55700,55652,55694,55692,55711,55673,55686,55730,55689| publisher=National Archives and Records Administration|accessdate=2019-08-18}} Havey is a Japanese American Nisei whose family was forced to Japanese American internment camps during World War II (following the signing of Executive Order 9066) when she was 10 years old. Her family first was sent to Santa Anita Assembly Center in Pasadena, California, and then to Amache Relocation Center (Granada Relocation Center).Lily Yuriko Nakai Havye, Foreword by Cherstin Lyon, Gasa Gasa Girl Goes To Camp, The University of Utah Press, 2014, p. x
Havey graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music. Havey then worked as an English teacher and later went on to establish a stained-glass studio. At age 65, she began painting.{{citation |last=Weist |first=Ellen |title=Salt Lake artist paints internment camp story with artistic eye | newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune |date=October 17, 2014 |url=http://www.sltrib.com/news/1704747-155/havey-gasa-amache-camp-girl-lily}}
Havey created and illustrated a memoir called Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp, which was published in 2014.{{Cite book|isbn=978-1607813439|title=Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind a World War II Fence|last1=Havey|first1=Lily Yuriko Nakai|last2=Lyon|first2=Cherstin M.|year=2014|publisher=University of Utah Press }} The memoir is about her family's experience through her narrative and artwork. The book focuses on her confusion and frustration resulting from her American identity and her Japanese ethnic background. "Why were we still pledging our allegiance to the United States? The government had classified us as evil Japanese and herded us in to this camp. Maybe we ought to be singing the Japanese anthem instead...Yes, I knew that anthem. My mother had taught it to me because, she claimed, "You are Japanese, Yuriko." "Japanese? No, I'm American," I insisted."Lily Yuriko Nakai Havye, Gasa Gasa Girl Goes To Camp, The University of Utah Press, 2014, p. 22 She emphasized that camp experience was traumatic and affected her for the rest of her life.
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Category:21st-century American painters
Category:21st-century American women painters