Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market

Artist Glenn Kaino’s grandfather, Akira Shiraishi, was a star high school football player whose dreams were cut short when he was incarcerated at the Heart Mountain concentration camp in Wyoming during WWII. When he returned to East L.A., he and his wife Sachiye opened a market on the corner of Blanchard Street and Geraghty Avenue—which Kaino has recreated via virtual reality and a contemporary store at the Japanese American National Museum.