Craft

Jenn Kitagawa

Jenn Kitagawa is an award-winning multidisciplinary visual artist who grew up in the city of Edmonton as well as the southern farmlands surrounding Taber, Alberta. She is of Japanese descent and is 4th generation, or Yonsei and Scottish. Graduating from MacEwan University (Edmonton, Alberta) and the Alberta College of Art & Design (Calgary, Alberta), she […]

Tomo Ingalls

Tomo Ingalls is a woman, mother, potter, clay artist, and immigrant. She started pottery training in 2014 and obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Craft Media from Alberta University of the Arts in 2022. She has provided her wares to galleries and stores in maritime provinces. Currently, she is an artist in residence at […]

Shion Skye Carter

Shion Skye Carter is a performing artist originally from Tajimi, Japan, and based in Vancouver, Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance and Kinesiology from Simon Fraser University. As a performer, she has interpreted the works of artists such as Vanessa Goodman/Action at a Distance, plastic orchid factory, and Yossi Berg […]

Takako Suzuki

“Takako Suzuki is a Japanese-born potter who practiced in Vancouver prior to her retirement. She studied at Meiji University in Tokyo, and after immigrating to Canada, at Emily Carr College of Art & Design. Her work was shown in a number of solo and group exhibitions in the 1980s and 1990s, primarily in Vancouver, and […]

Shizuka Kai

Shizuka is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on set design and puppetry. She also works as a trained puppeteer on tv/film, an illustrator/graphic designer, director, and earring maker. She is a three-time Jessie Richardson award winner with multiple nominations, the recipient of the Earl Klein Memorial Scholarship / Bill Millerd Artist Fund / Steven […]

Kayo Hosaka

Kayo Hosaka is a craft person. She currently lives in Vancouver, where she sells her original jewelry, leather accessories, and Kimono recreations. Born in Yamanashi Japan, Hosaka moved to the USA and then Mexico-city after graduating high school. She studied BA of fine art at University of Las Americas in Mexico city. Living in Japan, […]

Yuriko Iga

Blim retail consists of unique cosmic apparel handmade and hand printed exclusively by Blim. All product is made in our Blim studio and print shop. Imagined at age 4, Blim founder Yuriko Iga created her imaginary animal kingdom of humanized animals wearing funky clothes called Blim Blim. She kept her imaginary world a secret until […]

Hitoko Okada

Hitoko Okada is a fibre artist and craft maker based in Hamilton, Ontario. She started her career as a props maker and costumer in professional theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia and throughout Southern Ontario, including The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, The Grand Theatre in London, Ontario, and Mirvish Productions in Toronto, Ontario. Her […]

Mami Mizutani

Mami is a Vancouver-based business woman who founded Beauty Secrets of Japan and Camellia Japan. Mami immigrated to Canada, from Osaka Japan, in 1999. She is a graduate of Otani University and continued to study multimedia after immigrating. Since her arrival to Canada, Mami has been involved in several successful start-up businesses yet chose to […]

Yoshiko Godo

Yoshiko Godo was born in Haney, BC in 1940. Her family was interned in Tashme and their father was imprisoned in Angler. They were reunited in Geraldton shortly before the death of their mother. After the war, they lived in Emerson Manitoba, Winnipeg, and Lillooet BC. Yoshiko attended UBC obtaining a degree in Mathematics. She […]

Mui-Ling Teh

Mui-Ling Teh is an artist, photographer, and poet of Japanese and Chinese descent. She produces art both traditionally and digitally; but at present she is best known for her miniature origami. Teh’s origami began as photography props, sometimes accompanied by her poetry. In 2014 she transitioned to exhibiting and selling her original creations in public. […]

Mas Funo

Masatada Funo was born in Seattle, Washington to parents of Japanese descent. He is a long-time resident of Vancouver, British Columbia. A self-taught potter, Mas has been working with clay for 45 years. His distinctive boxes and sculptures are collected by admirers in Canada, the United States, Europe and Japan. Tea ceremony masters in Japan […]

Mike Sasaki

Mike took to drawing early in his life, spending focused hours honing the skill as a child. He was also taught woodworking by his father at an early age. In school he excelled in visual arts and decided to pursue a degree in Design. Mike Sasaki graduated from the Bachelor of Design Honours program at […]

Yvonne Wakabayashi

Yvonne Wakabayashi (née Tasaka) was born in Vancouver in 1938 and spent her early childhood years during internment with her family in the tiny rural communities of Blind Bay and Notch Hill, British Columbia. Returning to Vancouver after the war, she continued her education which led to a Bachelor and Master degree in Education with […]

Shinobu Mizukoshi

Shinobu Mizukoshi specializes in Japanese-style handmade fabric objects such as coasters, pouches, placemats and accessories. Original designs are handmade by Shinobu with materials exclusively imported from Japan.