Junko Yamada was born in Kyoto, Japan. Growing up in the beach resort area of Miyazu, a beautiful area of Japan located on the Pacific coast about two hours north of Kyoto, her art was influenced by the spectacular scenery. Her academic training includes the Art...
Teo Yamamoto has been living in New York City since 1989. She has been producing and publishing a variety of art and has been involved as visual artist, designer, poet and writer with many projects based in New York and Tokyo. Two of her books of poems were published...
Emi Koda is from Hiroshima, Japan. She began studying pottery making in 1994 when she moved with her husband to New Jersey. Upon moving to Saitama, Japan in 1999, she began teaching pottery making there, which she continued until she and her husband moved to Harrison,...
Go Nakamura was born in Tokyo and moved to Hawaii at the age of 16. He started his photography career as a wedding photographer at La-Vie Photography, known for professional wedding photography with high fashion and artistic photos, but developed his own journalistic...
Wada Africa is a fashion house started by designer Chiaki Wada. Her African Journey started when she met beautiful and powerful African fabrics by fate in New York. The fabrics get a soul by arid wind and blaze of the sun. WADA-AFRICA transforms African fabrics into...
Nobu was born in Kamakura City and lived right in front of Kanagawa Modern Museum. During her elementary school years, she loved to visit the museum and even explored neighborhood galleries on her own. After winning an international student art competition and showing...
