The Bainbridge Island Museum of Art exhibit “Americans Incarcerated: A Family’s Story of Social Injustice” will be on display through June 12.

According to the BIMA website, the theme of Jan and Chris Hopkins’ exhibition memorializes the eviction of Japanese Americans during World War II by Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, which sent 120,000 people to internment camps.

Their work is inspired by Jan Hopkins’ desire to learn more about her cultural identity. As a child of interned Japanese Americans, she grew up with little knowledge of her heritage or what her family endured. The journey begins with the story of Jan’s parents, who met at Camp Harmony, a temporary processing facility at the Puyallup Fairgrounds.

BIMA describes the Hopkins’ work as engaging, beautiful and heartbreaking. Chris’ paintings portray the range of fear, racism, alienation and loss experienced during this chapter in American history.

“The people that got hit hardest were the elderly, because they had nothing to go back to. The younger people could at least rebuild, even if they lost everything — but not the elders,” Chris said.

“We’re so honored to be showing the exhibit on the 80th anniversary of the exclusion, It was a real privilege and an absolute honor,” Jan said.

The artists’ visual narrative combines Jan’s figurative sculptures and mixed media vignettes with nearly 60 of Chris’ two-dimensional oil paintings, Sumi ink block prints and charcoal drawings he has created since 2008.

The Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, at 550 Winslow Way E., is open daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information visit www.biartmuseum.org.