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Joan Takayama-Ogawa (born February 20, 1955), is an American ceramic artist and educator. She is sansei (third-generation) Japanese-American, and a professor at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. [2]
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 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 ...
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 ...
The villa that forms the district's centerpiece was constructed from 1911 to 1914 by artisans and craftsmen from Japan for the German-American Adolph Leopold Bernheimer (1866-1944) and Eugene Elija Bernheimer (1865-1924) [noted as brothers to Charles L. Bernheimer] to house their collection of Japanese art and valuable items. Mainly acquired in ...
This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
L.A. ceramist Linda Hsiao's hand-built vessels — owls, birds and mythological creatures — exhibit a playful style that is thoroughly her own.
Mishima pottery despite its name is of Korean origin. Some of the existing kilns and the main ceramic wares have been designated by the government Agency for Cultural Affairs as an Intangible Cultural Property as regulated by the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties (1950).