Lorraine Leiko Miyahara is a self-taught painter, and she paints whatever she likes: flowers, kabuki dancers, even her blue-eyed husky dog Lana.

But her art is more than just a passing fancy for Miyahara. She was 13 years old during World War II, when Japanese Americans were forced en masse from their homes and incarcerated in isolated internment camps scattered across the United States.

Read about how Miyahara used art as an escape from the realities of Colorado’s bleak Camp Amache, in the Florida Times-Union newspaper.

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