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Collector Joe D. Price's Shin'enkan Collection of more than 300 Japanese scroll and screen paintings represents the core of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Japanese holdings. In 1983, Price and his wife Etsuko Yoshimochi bequeathed about 300 Japanese screens and scrolls to the museum and donated $5 million in seed money for a building to ...
The Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation is an agency of the County of Los Angeles which oversees its parks and recreational facilities. It was created in 1944. [ 2 ] It operates and maintains over 71,249 acres (28,833 ha) of parks, gardens, lakes, natural gardens, and golfing greens, and 200 miles (320 km) of trails.
The department is controlled and managed by the Board of Recreation and Park Commissioners. [6] The Board is charged with controlling parks and recreation sites, controlling, appropriating and expending money in the Recreation and Parks Fund and authorizing the City Treasurer to invest surplus funds under its control, and organizing the work of the department into divisions and appointing an ...
She is sansei (third-generation) Japanese-American, and a professor at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. [2] Takayama-Ogawa's heritage since the 15th century of Japanese ceramic art influences her work, that usually explores beauty, decoration, ornamentation and narrative while also introducing a dialogue that rejects ...
The list of Japanese ceramics sites (日本の陶磁器産地一覧, Nihon no tōjiki sanchi ichiran) consists of historical and existing pottery kilns in Japan and the Japanese pottery and porcelain ware they primarily produced. The list contains kilns of the post-Heian period.
Los Angeles: Art: Located on Miracle Mile, it is Los Angeles' only arts institution dedicated to craft dA Center for the Arts Pomona: San Gabriel Valley: Art: website, community arts center with exhibitions Descanso Gardens: La Cañada Flintridge: San Gabriel Valley: Historic house: Botanic gardens, also features Boddy House, a 22-room mansion ...
L.A. ceramist Linda Hsiao's hand-built vessels — owls, birds and mythological creatures — exhibit a playful style that is thoroughly her own.
Edo-period koishiwara sake bottle (), stoneware with brown glaze and white slip, in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Koishiwara ware (小石原焼, Koishiwara-yaki), formerly known as Nakano ware, is a type of Japanese pottery traditionally from Koishiwara, Fukuoka Prefecture in western Japan. [1]