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Sacramento Man Recounts Struggle to Become Internationally Recognized Sculpture Artist
Yoshio Taylor will tell you and he’s told his students that to be a sculpture artist takes …

John Sammon • Nov. 6, 2022

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artists California generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration postwar Sacramento sculptures Shin-Issei United States World War II Yoshio Taylor
artists California generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration postwar Sacramento sculptures Shin-Issei United States World War II Yoshio Taylor
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Leo Amino: Building a Brighter Art Through Plastics - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> In 1946, on the initiative of the famed artist Josef Albers, Leo Amino was in…

Greg Robinson • March 25, 2022

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artists generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Leo Amino migration New York (state) sculptures United States
artists generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Leo Amino migration New York (state) sculptures United States
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Leo Amino: Building a Brighter Art Through Plastics - Part 1
The modern sculptor Leo Amino, who achieved fame in the postwar artworld but then faded from view, …

Greg Robinson • March 24, 2022

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artists generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Leo Amino migration New York (state) sculptures United States
artists generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Leo Amino migration New York (state) sculptures United States
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The Wakayama Canada-Japan Friendship Totem Pole Project
Factoring in Japan with Canada has always been a juggling act. For generations it has been a &ldquo…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • April 30, 2021

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arts Canada Japan Mio sculptures sister cities totem poles Wakayama (city) Wakayama Prefecture
arts Canada Japan Mio sculptures sister cities totem poles Wakayama (city) Wakayama Prefecture
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Giotta Fuyo Tajiri — An Artist's Voyage
In June 2019, Discover Nikkei published an article of mine on the Nikkei community in the Netherl…

Jonathan van Harmelen • Oct. 10, 2019

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artists arts authors civil rights civil rights movement Giotta Fuyo Tajiri hapa identity imprisonment incarceration Netherlands racially mixed people Redress movement sculptures Shinkichi Tajiri World War II
artists arts authors civil rights civil rights movement Giotta Fuyo Tajiri hapa identity imprisonment incarceration Netherlands racially mixed people Redress movement sculptures Shinkichi Tajiri World War II
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Canadian Nikkei Artist
Marjene Matsunaga Turnbull: Baking Japanese Canadianness
Read the interview with Marjene Matsunaga Turnbull by Norm Ibuki >> After learning what the …

Marjene Matsunaga Turnbull • Aug. 13, 2019

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arts families history identity Marjene Matsunaga Turnbull sculptures
arts families history identity Marjene Matsunaga Turnbull sculptures
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The Way of the Busshi Bridging Past and Present, East and West
Making my first feature film when I was 18 drastically changed the course of my life. For better or…

Yujiro Seki • March 7, 2018

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Buddhism busshi butsudan Carving the Divine (film) documentaries films identity religions sculptures United States wood carving wood work
Buddhism busshi butsudan Carving the Divine (film) documentaries films identity religions sculptures United States wood carving wood work
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Carlos Runcie Tanaka: a necessary return to the profession
Carlos Runcie Tanaka says that he prefers to mold clay to say the things that happen to him as a hu…

Carina Moreno +1 • Oct. 6, 2017

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artists arts Carlos Runcie Tanaka ceramics Peru sculptures
artists arts Carlos Runcie Tanaka ceramics Peru sculptures
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Tessaku
Isamu Noguchi - Part 1
“I begin to see the peculiar tragedy of the Nisei as that of a generation of transition acc…

Emiko Tsuchida • Sept. 13, 2017

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Arizona arts concentration camps generations hapa Isamu Noguchi Japan New York (state) Nisei Poston concentration camp racially mixed people sculptures United States World War II camps
Arizona arts concentration camps generations hapa Isamu Noguchi Japan New York (state) Nisei Poston concentration camp racially mixed people sculptures United States World War II camps
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Haroldo Higa, the artist who looked into his heart
2017 is a very special year for the plastic artist Haroldo Higa. With almost 25 years of career, in…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • May 3, 2017

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artists Haroldo Higa identity Peru sculptures
artists Haroldo Higa identity Peru sculptures
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