Visual Arts

Katsuhiko Takada

Alana Keiko Fleming

Alana Keiko Fleming is a yonsei illustrator, graphic designer, and animator who has worked on blockbuster movies such as Ghostbusters (2017), Alpha, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. She is currently working on a board game called DreamWeavers. Her art style is a reflection of her culture, a mix of anime and western […]

Warren Hoyano

Warren Hoyano works with paper and watercolour. He creates two and three-dimensional work often by non-traditional means. This involves bending and folding prepared paper in ways that add structure and volume. Hoyano has participated in solo and juried shows since 2004.

Mikuro Mika

MIKURO MIKA is a singer-songwriter based in North America and Japan. In 2015, she was diagnosed with cancer in her stomach and immediately got treatment. Following that ordeal, she decided to go to other countries to share her music and message and left Japan. She has performed at Anime North, Japan festival Canada and she […]

Yoko Galvin

Yoko Galvin was born in Tochigi, Japan. She travelled around the world in the 1970s, visiting Russia, Europe, and Canada, gaining experiences that she has beautifully incorporated into her art. Her unique perspective on life, love, and relationships results in some of the most captivating and inspiring pieces of musical and visual works. As a […]

Mia Ohki

Mia Ohki is an Japanese Canadian artist, born in Connecticut, USA, and raised in Alberta, Canada. She now lives and works in Vancouver, BC. She primarily illustrates with black pen on white paper to convey her thoughts, however she also uses many other visual art mediums, including sculpture and painting, to study concepts that interest […]

Randall Okita

Randall Okita is a Canadian visual artist and filmmaker whose work employs sculpture, technology, physically challenging performances or stunt-work, and rich cinematography. His work has been shown in both group and solo exhibition, awarded internationally, and screened at festivals around the world, including retrospective screenings of his short film catalogue in San Francisco and Toronto. […]

Mary Akemi Morris

Mary Akemi Morris is a watercolour and acrylic painter born in the internment camp of Tashme, British Columbia in 1945 and now based in London, Ontario. She is a graduate of Fine Arts, University of Toronto and has taught art in secondary schools in North York and London, Ontario. In 2019, she exhibited her art […]

Sharon Sasaki

Family Physician, Visual collage artist, Science Fiction Author. Visual art focuses on creating abstract or impressionistic images depicting creatures both real and imaginary in collage using Japanese papers: washi and momi papers. Science fiction novels include: Welcome to the Madhouse, Genesis, Bud by the Grace of God, Amazing Grace (soon to be published), Hiro’s Hardship […]

Yuriko Kubota

Yuriko began her art studies as a painter, studying oil painting and received her B.F.A from at Joshibi University of Art and Design in Tokyo, Japan. She went on to study photography under Shin Sugino in Toronto where she has been living and working since 2004. Her works have been shown in various galleries around […]

Noriko Yamamoto

Noriko Yamamoto is a mime, dancer, choreographer, Silent Storyteller, and visual artist. She studied ballet, modern and jazz dance in Japan and New York before studying mime under renowned mime artist, Mamako Yoneyama. Noriko’s work on stage and television, and doing promotional work (commercials, etc.) for various corporations took her across Japan for 15 years. […]

Elizabeth Hasegawa Agresta

Elizabeth is a painter and third generation artist, carrying on a family legacy in the creative arts which includes: kimono design, Japanese ceramics, classic wooden yacht design, culinary arts, photography, painting, writing, and poetry. Elizabeth studied at The Art Students League of New York and currently dedicates her time to studying contemporary art, experimenting with […]

Miki Dare

Miki Dare (Dare is pronounced DAH-RAY in Japanese) lives on the West Coast where she likes to express herself with whatever falls into her hands – from a pen to a paintbrush. She enjoys working with mixed media (from food packaging to fire) and acrylics on canvas to explore issues of identity, personal history, and […]

M.A. Tateishi

M.A.Tateishi is a Vancouver painter inspired by bright colour and geometric form. Her unique creative process involves up to twenty layers of painting and drawing on tissue applied to wood panel. Then the layers are torn away to reveal the history of the artwork. Finally, resin is applied to create translucency. Her artwork has been […]

Eileen Koyama

Eileen Koyama earned her B.Sc. in Research Psychology at the University of Toronto before moving to Tokyo to work as an editor of academic journal articles. After returning home, she worked as a freelance editor of non-fiction books. Years later, when trauma and PTSD turned her world upside down, art therapy was there to catch […]