Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz

[3][4] Chizuko Judy Sugita earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from California State University, Dominguez Hills.

[7] After early retirement following a workplace injury, she turned to watercolor painting full-time, and took up her childhood memories of camp life as her theme.

[10] An exhibit of her watercolors about her childhood in Poston, "Camp Days, 1942-1945," was first shown at the Palos Verdes Art Center near her home, in 2009.

"[15] Many of the paintings in the exhibit depict similar emotions like sorrow, loss, loneliness, and longing; this one also illustrates her insecurity about her body as she moved towards puberty in the camp, where she was required to shower naked with the other women.

[15] Montez Productions made a film of her story, "Childhood Memories of Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz," in 2011.