Events
Upcoming Event:
*Pacific Center for the Book Arts “Bookworks: Triennial
Members’ Exhibit."*
June 18-August 7, 2011
San Francisco Public Library Skylight Gallery, Sixth Floor
At this exhibit, traditional as well as experimental artist books will be displayed. A collaborative book by Emily Lewis-Berry and Reiko Fujii, Wormhole Whiplash and Other Cranial Contortions will be exhibited and for sale at $575.
Past Events:
*Distillations: Meditations on the Japanese American Experience*
August 17- September 18, 2010
John F. Kennedy University Arts and Consciousness Gallery, Berkeley, California
Reiko Fujii, Lucien Kubo, Shizue Seigel and Judy Shintani are Sansei (third generation Japanese American) artists who explore the rich, complex interplay of past and present in contemporary Asian American life through an array of media and techniques including collage, assemblage, glass, found objects, painting, photography, video, installation, and performance.
|http://www.facebook.com/JAArtists?v=wall&ref=pdem#!/photo.php?fbid=1464398 42045457&set=pu.128696513819790&theater|
On my performance day, I was honored to wear my most recent photo silk-screened Glass Kimono along with my daughter, who wore her Glass Ancestral Kimono. I also performed “The Egg House wall” and screened three of my short documentaries: “The Farm”, “The Glass Kimono”, and “Beautiful Sadness: Stories from Camp.”
My installation, “They Might Be Spies,” a clothesline with authentic childrenʼs clothes from internment camp, was an interactive piece, asking former Japanese American and Japanese Latin American internees to write down the camps where their families were imprisoned during WWII. They then hung them on the wooden clothesline posts.
"Reading the Walls: The Inaba Story"
September 10, 2009
Riverside Mayor’s Office, “Race Equality Week”
My mother's father immigrated to the U. S. in 1918. After my grandfather worked for several years picking oranges and being a busboy at the Mission Inn, he married Kiri Kawata and bought a plot of land on the outskirts of Riverside, California in 1924.
"The Farm" documentary, "The Egg House Wall" performance, the readings from The Inaba Family Farm book by family members, the showing of "The Journey of the Glass Kimono," and wearing my silk- screened Glass Ancestral Kimono were all part of the program to honor and tell the story of the Inaba family.
“Glass Fashion Show Extravaganza”
June 13, 2009
Corning Museum of Glass, New York
My Daughter and I wore our Glass Kimonos as the finale to this glass fashion show. It touched me to find out people were crying during our performance.
“Reading the Walls: Riverside Stories of Internment and Return”
October 14, 2007
Cesar Chavez Community Center, Riverside, California Sponsored by Riverside Metropolitan Museum
Magazine Articles
"Glanc" Newsletter: Message from the President Autumn 2009
"Glass Quarterly Magazine"
|http://blog.glassquarterly.com/2009/07/24/sneak-preview-the-show-stopping- glass-art-society-fashion-show-immortalized-in-new-book/stephen-wild-3-2/|
"works and conversations Magazine" "Reiko Fujii, The Glass Kimono"
http://www.conversations.org/s
Ampersand: Book Works 2006, Stephen P. Corey Award, page 29
*Pacific Center for the Book Arts “Bookworks: Triennial
Members’ Exhibit."*
June 18-August 7, 2011
San Francisco Public Library Skylight Gallery, Sixth Floor
At this exhibit, traditional as well as experimental artist books will be displayed. A collaborative book by Emily Lewis-Berry and Reiko Fujii, Wormhole Whiplash and Other Cranial Contortions will be exhibited and for sale at $575.
Past Events:
*Distillations: Meditations on the Japanese American Experience*
August 17- September 18, 2010
John F. Kennedy University Arts and Consciousness Gallery, Berkeley, California
Reiko Fujii, Lucien Kubo, Shizue Seigel and Judy Shintani are Sansei (third generation Japanese American) artists who explore the rich, complex interplay of past and present in contemporary Asian American life through an array of media and techniques including collage, assemblage, glass, found objects, painting, photography, video, installation, and performance.
|http://www.facebook.com/JAArtists?v=wall&ref=pdem#!/photo.php?fbid=1464398 42045457&set=pu.128696513819790&theater|
On my performance day, I was honored to wear my most recent photo silk-screened Glass Kimono along with my daughter, who wore her Glass Ancestral Kimono. I also performed “The Egg House wall” and screened three of my short documentaries: “The Farm”, “The Glass Kimono”, and “Beautiful Sadness: Stories from Camp.”
My installation, “They Might Be Spies,” a clothesline with authentic childrenʼs clothes from internment camp, was an interactive piece, asking former Japanese American and Japanese Latin American internees to write down the camps where their families were imprisoned during WWII. They then hung them on the wooden clothesline posts.
"Reading the Walls: The Inaba Story"
September 10, 2009
Riverside Mayor’s Office, “Race Equality Week”
My mother's father immigrated to the U. S. in 1918. After my grandfather worked for several years picking oranges and being a busboy at the Mission Inn, he married Kiri Kawata and bought a plot of land on the outskirts of Riverside, California in 1924.
"The Farm" documentary, "The Egg House Wall" performance, the readings from The Inaba Family Farm book by family members, the showing of "The Journey of the Glass Kimono," and wearing my silk- screened Glass Ancestral Kimono were all part of the program to honor and tell the story of the Inaba family.
“Glass Fashion Show Extravaganza”
June 13, 2009
Corning Museum of Glass, New York
My Daughter and I wore our Glass Kimonos as the finale to this glass fashion show. It touched me to find out people were crying during our performance.
“Reading the Walls: Riverside Stories of Internment and Return”
October 14, 2007
Cesar Chavez Community Center, Riverside, California Sponsored by Riverside Metropolitan Museum
Magazine Articles
"Glanc" Newsletter: Message from the President Autumn 2009
"Glass Quarterly Magazine"
|http://blog.glassquarterly.com/2009/07/24/sneak-preview-the-show-stopping- glass-art-society-fashion-show-immortalized-in-new-book/stephen-wild-3-2/|
"works and conversations Magazine" "Reiko Fujii, The Glass Kimono"
http://www.conversations.org/s
Ampersand: Book Works 2006, Stephen P. Corey Award, page 29
