"The following oral history transcript is the result of a tape-recorded interview with Kay Sekimachi on July 26, 30, and August 3, 6, 2001. The interview took place in Berkeley, California and was conducted by Suzanne Baizerman for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. This interview is part of the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America."
"Fiber artist, Kay Sekimachi was born in 1926 and resides in Berkeley with her husband, wood turner Bob Stocksdale. She studied at the California College of Arts and Craft in Oakland, California from 1946 to1949 with Trude Guermonprez, who became her most influential teacher, friend and mentor. In 1956, she studied with Jack Lenor Larsen at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Liberty Maine. She has exhibited widely and is in many museum collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; The American Craft Museum, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh; Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France; and The National Museum, Kyoto, Japan. She has received numerous awards including an NEA fellowship in 1974. She was named a Fellow the American Crafts Council 1985 and in 1997 was the recipient of the Women’s Caucus for Art Honor Award."