Calgary

Meg Ohsada

Meg Ohsada is a multidisciplinary artist from Canmore Alberta, who pours passion and feelings into her art to stir up inspiration in all who see it. Meg is passionate in advocating for an inclusive culture and helping others see that the world can be a better place when we share love, beauty, encouragement and kindness […]

Stafford Arima

STAFFORD ARIMA is the Artistic Director at Theatre Calgary. Born and raised in Toronto, Arima thrived in the New York theatre scene for over 20 years. In 2015, he became the first Asian Canadian to direct a musical on Broadway when Allegiance opened at the Longacre Theatre, starring George Takei and Lea Salonga. Arima was […]

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 […]

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. […]

Arthur Nishimura

Arthur Nishimura is a photographer. He was born in the small, rural town of Raymond in Southern Alberta. His parents were immigrants to the area in the late 1910s. Photography was adopted by his father in the 1920s as a means to communicate his life in Canada to friends and family in Japan. This practice […]

Eugene Ouchi

Eugene Ouchi was a printmaker and graphic designer. Born in Vernon, British Columbia, he studied at the Alberta College of Art – later, he became a teacher there. He had a career in the graphic design industry spanning more than thirty years, working on book design as well as corporate and information design. Ouchi’s prints […]

Tim Tamashiro

Tim Tamashiro is a singer and ‘jazz evangelist’, well-known as the host of Tonic on CBC Radio 2. Growing up in Blackfalds, Alberta, Tamashiro had six months of piano lessons before his mother and piano teacher decided to let him teach himself how to play by ear; he has since become a passionate believer in […]

Setsuko Onishi Moulton

Setsuko Onishi Moulton is a Calgary-based printmaker. Born in Japan, she studied French literature in Kobe before immigrating to Canada in 1983. She studied printmaking at the Alberta College of Art and Design, and her work has appeared in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Canada, Japan, and Hong Kong. Her work can […]

Kim Nagata

Kim Nagata is a Calgary-based metalsmith who practiced in the 1990s. Her specialties were silver, gold, and niobium. She studied Jewellery Arts at George Brown College and the Alberta College of Arts, and apprenticed at Calgary-based jewellers. She received a SEAD Grant from the National Association of Japanese Canadians, and was a member of the […]

Kerry Nagata

Kerry Nagata is a Calgary-based architect. He holds a BA in Urban Geography from the University of Alberta and a Master of Environmental Design in Architecture from the University of Calgary. Early in his career, Nagata worked on corporate buildings in Canada and Russia, and later joined the Calgary firm Marshall Tittemore in 2001. In […]

Baco Ohama

Baco Ohama describes herself as a sensorialist, a writer, a text walker, a maker, and as an artist who works with the felt and the found. She says she is drawn to slow conversations and everyday poetics, and often finds herself thinking about the relationships between history, language, and location. A sansei who grew up […]

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 […]