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Riyo Sato

Riyo Sato (1913-2009) was an artist, photographer, and an arts educator for over thirty years.

Yoshiko Yamanouchi

Yoshiko Yamanouchi (1895–1973) was an early Buddhist community leader, businesswoman, and amateur painter.

Wendy Yoshimura

Artist and fugitive who was arrested with heiress Patricia Hearst in a notorious 1970s case.

Elsa Laubach Jemne was a Minnesota artist active from the 1910s to the 1960s. Though skilled as an easel painter, she is better known for the murals she created for public buildings, including post offices and courthouses.

Clara Mairs

Clara Gardner Mairs was a painter, printmaker, and decorative artist active from the 1910s to the 1960s. She is best known for her prints of children, animals, circus scenes, and Old Testament stories, often with hints of satirical humor.

Wakako Yamauchi

Distinguished playwright, short-story writer, poet and painter.

Toshiko Takaezu

One of America’s foremost ceramic artists and a highly regarded teacher of ceramics. She was credited with being one of the key figures in the mid-century transformation of ceramics from craft to fine art.