In December of 2021, Dr. Ernest and Elaine Nagamatsu donated an arts collection to the West Los Angeles College Foundation which included contemporary ceramics, Native American Works, paintings, furnishings and furniture, music instruments, Asian Art, and Archives from the Manzanar relocation camp of Japanese Americans during World War II.

A special viewing of the collection will take place on October 18, 2023, in the 4th Floor of HLRC. Join us as we show case the ceramics collection that includes rarer pieces from well know ceramicists Goro Suzuki, Henry Takamoto, Keiko Fukazawa, Mineo Mizuno, Minako Mizuno, Carol Ryoko Funai, and Elsa Rady.