Breaking the Frame is a podcast featuring interviews that explore how museums and the people who work in them shape American history and culture — past and present. Our guest this episode, Dr. Maki Kaneko, is an Associate Professor of Japanese Art at The Kress Foundation Department of Art History of the University of Kansas. She is co-curating an exhibition at the university’s Spencer Museum of Art on the work of Japanese-American artist Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani.

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More information about the artworks and topics discussed in this episode:

• Maki Kaneko at the University of Kansas https://arthistory.ku.edu/people/maki-kaneko
• Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani https://americanart.si.edu/artist/jimmy-tsutomu-mirikitani-29289
• Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita https://www.artnet.com/artists/l%C3%A9onard-tsuguharu-foujita/
• Research Fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum https://americanart.si.edu/research/fellowships
• The Cats of Mirikitani, directed by Linda Hattendorf http://www.thecatsofmirikitani.com/

Credits:

• Hosts: Emily C. Casey and R. Ruthie Dibble
• Production Assistant: Katherine White
• Graduate student guests: Hannah Johnson and Kendall Marsh
• Additional research prepared by: The graduate students of the Spring 2024 HA 706/906 Seminar in American Art: American Museums: Race, Class, Labor at the University of Kansas
• Theme music: "Deliberate Thought" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
• Artwork: Designed by Katherine White, featuring a frame (ca. 1849-1858) created by the United States Pottery Company currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0)