culture en pt

Erica Kaminishi: Presenting a Brazilian Nikkei Identity through Art - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Later, you returned to Japan as a graduate student and stayed for many years, working, exhibiting, and studying both traditional forms (pottery ...

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Erica Kaminishi: Presenting a Brazilian Nikkei Identity through Art - Part 1

Artist Erica Kaminishi, born and raised in Mato Gross, Brazil, is one of the hundreds of thousands of Nikkei Brazilian dekasegi who have migrated to ...

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Transpacific Borderlands: Japanese Brazilian Artists

I was born in Japan, and when I was eight years old my parents decided that we were going to emigrate to Brazil. We spent ...

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Transpacific Borderlands: Behind the Scenes with Artist Shinpei Takeda

“Some people think my work looks like it’s speaking something like a megaphone,” says Shinpei Takeda. “And some people think it is trying to ...

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Jamie Dihiansan and Chicago Graffiti

The first time you hit a real wall, not a practice spot, you get this rush. Like, “I shouldn’t be doing this.” Especially when ...

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Canadian Nikkei Series

Unfurling The Symbolism of Canadian Artist Warren Hoyano - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Can you talk a bit about your own artistic process? Referring to a few pieces in the JCCC show, can you please ...

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Canadian Nikkei Series

Unfurling The Symbolism of Canadian Artist Warren Hoyano - Part 1

“I am using flags as a metaphor for the fears, beliefs, aspirations, and behaviors which arise in societies under extreme stress, whether real or imagined ...

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José Taro Zorrilla Takeda: A Nikkei Architect on a Quest to Build Social Landscapes

José Taro Zorrilla Takeda is a young Japanese-Mexican artist and architect who was educated at prestigious universities in Japan and Mexico. Through his profession and ...

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Tessaku

Isamu Noguchi - Part 3

Read Part 2 >> Did he choose Poston due to it being on an American Indian reservation?  I think it happened to be under Collier’s ...

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Tessaku

Isamu Noguchi - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Do you also feel that something about Isamu Noguchi’s mixed-race identity shapes his sociopolitical worldview?  I think the time that he ...