Events, Workshops, & News
Gel Plate Monotype
Printmaking class
2/1/25 Saturday
10:00am - 12:00pm
Gel plate monotype is a kind of printmaking where you use stencils and found objects to print one-of-a-kind, unique images.
In this workshop, you will learn simple steps of how to print images with a gel plate and play with layered images. No prior experience of printmaking is necessary. Just bring your willingness to be creative. All supplies included.
Group exhibition:
3rd Annual Art and Nature Festival
I will be showing and selling many of my printmaking pieces and paintings at the Art in Nature Festival on 5/25/24 (Sat) & 5/26/24 (Sun) at the National Botanic Garden in Chantilly, VA.
I would love to meet you in person at the festival---Please come and enjoy the beautiful garden and local artists' wonderful artworks.
Art Classes @ Art House 7
I teach art classes and workshops at Art House 7 in Arlington, VA.
Art for Wellness class for 55+ years old
Artmaking can be therapeutic. Art can relax you, help you understand your needs, and change the way you feel and think. How can you use artmaking intentionally to bring a sense of wellness? We will use different art media each week. Register from here.
Clearbrook Art Show
This is the first art show for the Clearbrook Center of the Art. I believe art enriches communities and people's lives. I will have 5 pieces of artworks in this show to support this newly established center! (20% of the sales will be donated to support the center and its artist resident.) The show is open from 2/17/24 - 4/20/24. The center is open from 12 - 4pm Saturdays. More info here.
Solo exhibition: Remembering to heal
1/6/24 - 2/3/2024
d'Art Center
I have been invited to have a solo exhibition of my artworks in the Vault Gallery at d'Art Center in Norfolk, VA!
The exhibition captures my experience of cultural loss and its impact on my relationships with others as I live in the U.S. as a woman of color and an Asian, Japanese immigrant. The exhibition portrays how cultural loss can occur due to multiple factors such as the mainstream culture’s assumptions and societal oppression, changing a marginalized individual’s relationships with their traditional culture, their community, as well as with their own ancestors and children. The exhibition invites viewers to contemplate what it means to attend and heal from the grief of cultural loss.
The exhibition mainly consists of a collection of hand printed images and mixed media artworks, created by a variety of printmaking methods such as styrofoam print, gelatin monotype, collagraph, and Mokuhanga woodblock print.
Veiw the exhibition virtually from here
Intersection:
Identity & Culture
My artworks Remembering to search for what was lost and Between you and me were selected to be part of the exhibition.
"Most people explore the deep question of personal identity at some point in their lives. Identity can be expressed in many ways, including in terms of the self, environment, cultural influences, and gender. For this exhibit, artists were invited to share works expressing the intersection of their identity and their culture of origin or the culture in which they find themselves."
- Falls Church Arts
セルフケアアートのすすめ
2023年11月11日（土）に、NPOセプテンバーハウスさんの主催で無料セミナーを行うことになりました。
絵をかく・物を作るという行為には、癒しをもたらす要素が隠れています。「ぬり絵や編み物をしていたら、なんとなくリラックスできた、、、」なんていう経験はありませんか？でもそれはなぜなのでしょう？このセミナーでは、アートセラピーとは何か、どうしてアートが心の健康に貢献したり癒しをもたらすのか、また自宅でどんな風にアートを使ったら自分のセルフケアにつながるのか、などについてお話させていただきます。
日本人または日本語を話す方で、モントゴメリカウンティに住んでいらっしゃる方がいたら、ぜひこのイベントにいらしてください。
Art In Nature Festival
Before I end the Artist Residency In Motherhood at the end of May, I will be showing and selling many of my Mokuhanga pieces at the Art in Nature Festival on 5/27/23 (Sat) & 5/28/23 (Sun) at the National Botanic Garden in Chantilly, VA. I hope you can come and enjoy the beautiful garden, along with viewing local artists' works!
Register for this event here.
When - 5/20/23 (Sat) from 12:00pm to 1:30pm EST
Where - Virtual via zoom
As a way to honor AAPI Heritage Month, American Art Therapy Association is hosting a panel to hear from Asian/Asian American art therapists. And I will be there as the facilitator for this panel.
This panel brings all of us an opportunity to critically examine the lenses that we use to perceive race, cultures, art, and identities from social-justice oriented perspectives. What does it mean to be an Asian/Asian American art therapist in the United States in 2023? The panel will explore and articulate the impacts of the contexts that Asian/Asian American art therapists find themselves in—historically, politically, spatially.
Come and explore with the amazing panelists ways to think about culture as a process-oriented, fluid concept that is constantly changing through the dynamic interactions we have with others.
Register for the event from American Art Therapy Association's website here: https://arttherapy.org/news-aapi-heritage-month-session/
Asian/Asian American Art Therapists:
Embodying the Contexts
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