Irene Suyeoka
Irene Suyeoka é uma notável tecelã e artista de Chicago. Ela é membro da Associação de Ex-alunos da Escola do Instituto de Arte de Chicago, do Centro de Artes Têxteis, do American Craft, do Hand Weaver's Guild of America, do North Shore Weavers' Guild e do Marli Guild. Ela continua a criar e tecer e dá aulas de design e tecelagem.
Atualizado em julho de 2008
Stories from This Author
Kibei
3 de Julho de 2008 • Irene Suyeoka
Kibei (from the Japanese ki = return, bei = America) refers to an American of Japanese ancestry, who is raised in Japan, but returns to America. She is a perpetual outsider, an American while in Japan, and Japanese when she returns. My Japanese American story began with my grandmother, who left Japan, one of only two women on a ship bound for America. She landed in Hawaii, where my father, Shinishi Nishimoto, was born, and eventually settled in Fresno, California, …
