An accomplished painter and muralist, her background in the arts framed her response to problems as varied as how to reduce youth violence, protect the environmental quality of the Mercer Island Slough, and improve the financial viability of Seattle city-owned arts facilities.
The former Executive Director of Seattle’s Northwest African American Museum, Barbara Earl Thomas is far more than an institutional administrator. She is also an inspiring lecturer on the topics of art and culture and — as the University of Washington Press notes — a “painter and writer of prodigious talent and remarkable visionary sensibility.”
Gene Ritchie Monahan was a northern Minnesotan portrait and landscape artist.
Multi-talented artist, designer, teacher, and author Henrietta Barclay Paist is perhaps best known for her china painting, a popular turn-of-the-century pastime.
Hashimoto was an oil and watercolor painter who also produced decorative screens, who exhibited widely in the 1920s and early 1930s in Southern California.
A prominent California oil painter and printmaker celebrated for her modernist forms and rich use of colors. Hayakawa was part of a fledgling Nisei art milieu that exhibited widely in the 1920s and 1930s.
Hisako Shimizu Hibi (1907–91) was an Issei painter and printmaker who exhibited throughout her career, and by the end of her life she was well entrenched in the San Francisco Bay Area arts community. During WWII, she produced a body of work reflecting life at the Topaz concentration camp in Utah, and taught at the Topaz Art School .
Nisei painter, printer and freelance fashion illustrator
The artist and Japanese sumi-e and calligraphy teacher “Koho”
Miyoko Ito (1918–83) was a watercolor and abstract oil painter and printmaking artist.