Textiles

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 […]

Machiko Yamamoto

Machiko Yamamoto is a Toronto-based textile designer. Born in Japan, she received her Bachelor of Education in Arts and Crafts at the Kyoto University of Education in 1975. After graduating, she worked as a textile designer for custom orders in the 1970s. Her work has been displayed in Canada, Japan, and New York City, as […]

Takako Masumoto

Takako Masumoto was a traditional Japanese textile artist, trained in the Ryukyu Bingata style of katazome. Based in the Montreal area, she exhibited her work in a solo exhibition at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre of Montreal (1993), as well as a number of group exhibitions celebrating traditional Japanese culture. After mastering the original Ryukyu […]

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 […]

Takuro Kamata

Takuro Kamata (1939-) is an artist who worked primarily in traditional Japanese methods of textile design and woodblock prints. Originally from Miyagi prefecture in Japan, Kamata studied economics and got a job in the insurance business. At this time, he also pursued his interest in arts and crafts, and eventually studied woodcut printmaking under Toshi […]

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 […]

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 […]