Alberta

Mieko Ouchi

Mieko Ouchi is an actor, writer, and director working in theatre and film/TV. Mieko trained at U of A’s BFA Acting Program, the Women in the Director’s Chair Program and the National Screen Institute. Film roles include Nori Sato in Global TV’s The Guard, The Orange Seed Myth and Other Lies Mothers Tell, Fear Itself, […]

Ron Kanashiro

Ron Kanashiro was a sculptor of mixed-media pieces in the 1980s and 1990s. Born in Alberta, he exhibited largely in Calgary and Lethbridge, but also had pieces shown in Edmonton and Toronto. Although he retired his art practice and now works in the oil industry, his work has been added to several important art collections, […]

Yuriko Igarashi Kitamura

Yuriko Igarashi Kitamura is a watercolour painter. Kitamura graduated from university in Japan, and worked in pharmacology there before she and her family moved to the U.S., finally settling in Canada. After 20 years as a homemaker she began taking art courses at the U of A Faculty of Extension, under Mr. Harry Savage. His […]

Takako Yokoyama

Takako Yokoyama is a tea ceremony and ikebana practitioner. She joined the Omote-Senke tea school and Kōfu-Mishō ikebana school when she was 15 years old in Japan. She received her master certificate from both schools. She has since devoted her time to these traditional arts since her immigration to Canada in 1982. In 2017, she […]