This newly launched webinar series is intended to provide guidance and instruction to JET alumni across the country on a variety of careers, professional development topics, and unique challenges and how to navigate them. This webinar is on how to become a Japanese teacher after JET. Current JETs and JET alumni are both welcome to join. The guest presenters for this ...READ MORE »

Join us for our JET Alumni gathering at the Samuel Ullman Museum! Bond with fellow JETs about your experience in Japan at Alabama's HQ for Japanese culture. JASA has recently been approved for a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership to create a small Japanese Community Center in the Samuel Ullman Museum. Part of our purpose and initial ...READ MORE »

An extensive survey of work by Japanese artist Masayuki Koorida in his first major exhibition in the United States, this show includes large scale works in granite and marble as well as small playful works in stainless steel and cast acrylic, and new drawings. His sculptures, which are often inspired by nature, are as much serious works as they are ...READ MORE »

Digital imagery has given all of us an intimate appreciation and understanding of how color effects are expressed and managed by combining tiny dots of color. Textile design has long taken inspiration from similar appreciation of the effects of combining differently dyed, fine fibers on the warp and the weft of a traditional loom. A typical ...READ MORE »