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Location:
Dartmouth, NS
"I try to draw out the best from the material I see... and
I think teaching is the same. Students have their own qualities
and I try to draw the best out of them."
· Born in Tokyo, Japan, immigrated to Canada in 1971
Education:
· Master of Fine Arts, weaving, textile dyeing and printing,
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, US 1965-67
· Bachelor of Fine Art, Tama Fine Arts College, Tokyo, Japan
1960-1964
Selected Exhibitions:
· "5th In Our Hands", Nagoya Trade and Industry
Centre, Nagoya, Japan 2000
· "Dressing Down", Oakville Galleries Centennial
Gallery, Oakville, ON 1998
· "Meta Textiles", Mount St.Vincent University
Art Gallery, Halifax, NS 1996
· "Conceptual Textiles:Material Meanings", John
Michael Kohlar Arts Centre, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA, 1996
Selected Professional Experience:
· Assistant and Associate Professor of Textiles, Nova Scotia
College of Art and Design, 1976 - present
· Visiting Lecturer, Bunka Gakuin Art Institute, Tokyo, Japan,
2001
· Research trip to Southwest China, Kweichow Province, on
textiles of Miao Tribes, 2000
· Organizing the yearly Exhibition of Japanese contemporary
textiles for Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS 1997 - 2000
· Visiting Artist, Devon House Craft Gallery and Visual Artists
Newfoundland and Labrador, St.John's, NL 1997
· Exhibition Designer for "A Celebration of Textiles:
Handweaving by the Yard", Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and
Design, Halifax, NS 1997
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