Host Sophia Layne steps inside a hidden artist's studio and gallery in Half Moon Bay, tucked behind a bike shop near California’s iconic Highway One. As Kitsune Studios hosts its third annual celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, they embark on a multi-media exploration of this year's theme – LEGACY.

In this first of a two-part series, Sophia tours the exhibition with artist and studio owner Na Omi Shintani and chats with Na Omi and poet Monica Korde, whose collaborative installation is featured in the show.

Along the way, the conversation moves through music-evoking photography, travel-inspired embroidery, and a painful but essential reckoning with the Japanese American incarceration of World War II — and why the words we use to describe history matter more than we might think. And why, in 2026, that hist ...