Craft

Troy Suzuki

Troy Suzuki is a filmmaker whose work includes documentary, drama, and experimental video, with humour as a key component in his work. He studied fine art at Concordia and Emily Carr, and his work has been screened in Vancouver, including at the Powell Street Festival, Victoria, San Francisco, Dawson City, Mexico City, New York, Belgium, […]

Joanne Soroka

Joanne Soroka is a textile artist born in Quebec and based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She studied at McGill University, the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, and the Edinburgh College of Art, and now teaches at the University of Edinburgh. Her work has been exhibited in North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan, and can […]

Miki Inokuchi

Having grown up in the household of instrument makers, Miki has worked together with his father Masa Inokuchi making guitars and violins from early teen years. At age 23, he decided to carry on the family tradition. Rather than taking the usual route of starting with carving and construction of the instrument, Miki devoted his […]

Marjene Matsunaga Turnbull

Marjene Matsunaga Turnbull is a ceramicist and doll-maker. She produced functional pottery from 1987 – 2012. She also created Nikkei kokeshi (Japanese wooden dolls) – each one unique in facial expression and design. From 1981, Turnbull compiled family stories and in 1991 finished writing and editing the book Hisaoka Family Memoirs. Turnbull needed to know […]

Kimiko Muraoka Koyanagi

Kimiko Koyanagi is a 3rd generation doll-maker from the renowned Muraoka doll-making family of Tokyo and has made Burlington, Ontario her home since 1966. Trained from childhood in the family tradition, she is one of only a few living masters of this esteemed Japanese craft. For over sixty years, she has been utilizing this traditional […]

Heather Midori Yamada

Heather Midori Yamada is a Sansei visual artist and teacher who works with washi, Japanese handmade papers. She leads contemplative workshops which combine guided meditation, hatha yoga and creative brushwork. Recently married and having moved to Victoria, BC, Yamada continues to teach in Toronto at the Japanese Paper place and in Montreal at the Museum […]

Kinichi Shigeno

Kinichi Shigeno is a ceramicist. Originally from Nagano, Japan, Kinichi has been practising his unique ceramic style in Richmond, BC since 1984. His works have been included in such prestigious collections as the Claridge Collection and the Campbell Soup collection in the United States. His traditional use of cobalt underglazes and his intricate designs reflect […]

Yoshiko Sunahara

Yoshiko Sunahara is a sculptor, ceramicist, and mixed media artist. With many international exhibitions, and public commissions utilizing large-scale cast bronze and ceramic sculpture in her earlier portfolio, Yoshiko’s current work employs mixed media medallic sculpture in the form of ‘hand-held’ sculptures. Yoshiko’s work reflects a deep concern over environmental and social issues, voicing protest […]

John Ikeda

John Ikeda is a ceramicist.

Naoko Furue

Naoko Furue is a textiles artist who was born in Tokyo, Japan and immigrated to Canada in 1971. She graduated from Tama Fine Art University in Tokyo with a BFA in 1964 and from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan with an MFA in 1967. Since 1976 she has been an Associate Professor of Textiles […]

Mitsuru Cope

Mitsuru Cope is a Japanese-born ceramicist and painter who trained at Champlain College and Concordia University in Montreal. She has taken part in exhibitions in Quebec, Alberta, and the Czech Republic. Cope was one of six JC participants (with Baco Ohama, Stan Taniwa, Takako Suzuki, Sadashi Inuzuka and Bryce Kanbara) in the momentous ‘Community’ project […]

Ann Suzuki

Ann Suzuki is an Ontario-based textile artist who uses the ancient Javanese technique of batik, a wax-resist dyeing method, to create her unique silk designs. Suzuki wishes to create garments which ‘make the wearer feel special while being comfortable’. She hand-selects and dyes silks, and then creates one of a kind garments based on the […]

Aiko Suzuki

Aiko Suzuki was a prolific and versatile artist whose work took the forms of textiles, acrylic and oil painting, or just painting, printmaking, installations, and even multimedia works and set design. She was also an art educator, curator, and a leader and mentor in the arts community: not the least of her achievements was the […]

Banri Nakamura

Banri Nakamura was born in Tokyo, and moved close to Kyoto to escape the air raids of the Second world war which caused the deaths of his father, grandfather, aunt, and uncle. After ten years of country life, Nakamura moved back to Tokyo, and studied at a Industrial art technical high school where he specialized […]

Joni Moriyama

Joni Moriyama has worked for more than 25 years as a ceramic artist making vessel and sculptural forms. She received her undergraduate training at the Ontario College of Art (now OCADU) and her MFA at Alfred University in New York State. Moriyama has taught ceramics and 3D design at OCAD University since 1999. She also […]