Clay Between My Fingers
Millie Chen, Jamelie Hassan, Baco Ohama and Garry Williams
41 pages. softcover. ISBN 0920159788 $10
This publication presents a challenge to the traditional association of ceramics with function. Much ceramic work continues to be considered in relation to the vessel – the cup, plate and teapot – but there is much more to consider. The four artists in this publication work with ceramics in a broader context, looking at the history, cultural use and social value of clay.
Dear Lake
Sadashi Inuzuka
12 pages softcover ISBN: 0920123260 $1
Dear Lake is a catalogue of an exhibition at the Burnaby Art Gallery, Sept. 7 to Oct. 27, 1996. It includes pictures of the exhibit and essays by Grace Eiko Thomson and Kiyoji Tsuji.
Images of Internment: A Bitter-sweet Memoir in Words and Images
Dr. Henry Shimizu
68 pages Softcover ISBN: 978-1-896627-16-8 $22.95
In 1999 Dr. Shimizu created a series of oil paintings based on his life in New Denver. As a teenager he lived with his family in the internment camp at New Denver from 1942 to 1946. Each of these 27 pictures are reproduced on a full page, with a story on the facing page.
I RO HA (NI)
Curator: Michael Tora Speier
8 pages Softcover $5
Powell Street Festival 2001 presents five irrepressible Nikkei artists and their evanescent creations–Emu Goto, Kao Kaori, Lotus Miyashita, Lynda Nakashima and Miyuki Shinkai. Their work seriously addresses the many layered themes of this year’s 25th anniversary celebration: history; memory; location; neighbourhood. The artists in the show are connected by their deeply childlike worlds of perception, personal languages, built of simplicity, directness and emotional energy.
In Search of a Soul: Designing and Realizing the New Canadian War Museum
Raymond Moriyama
144 pages 100 full-colour images. Hardcover. ISBN 1-55365-207-X. $40.
In Search of a Soul is revered architect Moriyama’s personal account of conceiving and creating this important − perhaps iconic − national monument, opened to great acclaim on May 8, 2005, the sixtieth anniversary of VE Day. Illustrated throughout with full-colour plans, drawings and photos, it is a compelling story of one architect’s commitment to a vision, and to the country that provided his inspiration. “How can architecture reflect the ambience of battle without overpowering the visitor or glorifying war? . . . What is Canadian? What does war mean? Moriyama explores the difficult questions he wrestled with as the design took shape. In this bold new museum− and equally bold book− a great Canadian artist challenges us to address these troubling questions.
Japanese Canadians in the Arts
Members of the Japanese Canadian community
252 pages Softcover ISBN 0-9698249-0-4 $25 $10
This is a directory of Japanese-Canadian professionals, ranging from the areas of arts, music, film/video, architecture, and visual arts, etc., with their personal information on their education/training and accomplishments, etc., which is produced with the help of many individuals from the Japanese-Canadian community across Canada and from members of the local arts community.
Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka
Roy Kiyooka, edited by Daphne Marlatt
190 pages Softcover ISBN 1-896300-24-3 $16.95
In 1993 Mary Kiyooka sat with her son Roy Kiyooka, one of Canada’s most important avant-garde painters, and a tape recorder and in her native Japanese shared her memories with him—her childhood in Japan, her arrival as a married woman in Canada, and her family’s experience in Alberta during the Japanese internment period.
Shojo Manga: Girl power!
Edited by Masami Toku.
80 pages Softcover ISBN 978-1886226104 $15
This gorgeous and thoughtful collection of essays, while still more of a beginner’s primer than an extended tour of the field, nonetheless fills a gaping hole in the growing body of manga studies in the West. Shojo Manga! Girl Power! collects a dozen essays from a variety of knowledgeable scholars and writers, as well as a handsome section of full-color illustrations showcasing the artists featured in the accompanying exhibition.
Voices Rising
Xiao Ping Li
320 pages Softcover ISBN 9780774812221 $29.95 $20
Voices Rising examines Asian Canadian political and cultural activism in the late twentieth century around such issues as community building, identity making, racial equity, and social justice. Informed by a postcolonial cultural critique, Xiaoping Li draws on historical sources and compelling personal testimonies to show how culture acts as a means of engagement with the political and social world. As an interdisciplinary inquiry addressing topical issues of “race,” ethnicity, identity, and transculturalism, Voices Rising will be welcomed by scholars, researchers, and students in Canadian studies, cultural studies, ethnic histories, postcolonial theory, globalization studies, diaspora theory, and transcultural analysis. The general reader interested in Canadian identity and cultural history will also find this book accessible and useful.
Reflections of My Heart
カナダ生まれのねりきり
Junko Friesen
A beautiful original collection of wagashi (cakes made from white lima beans) created by Junko Friesen coupled with images of Vancouver, by Koichi Saito, which environment inspired these creations. Includes a short history of wagashi and a recipe. $30
Glass work by Mellon Glass
Cute animal paper balloons from Japan. $2 each.
Kokashi by Kimiko Hawkes
$35-37
A selection of high quality teas from Oohcha. $1.50-$10
baby vests by Babymaci $42
baby kimonos by Babymaci $55 $45
fridge magnets by Lotus Miyashita $2
wallets by Lin Crane $12
Origami & washi from Japan $2-12
chopsticks by Jiro Kamiya $2.50
Cushions by Flaming Angels
$18-28
Artist Books by Baco Ohama $15-30
2008 Vancouver street banners by Bratsa Bonifacho
Now on sale $10
Linda Ohama
Watari Dori (Bird of Passage)
limited edition print
32×24″
$30
This is the final piece of a series of prints about the internment of Japanese Canadians. Reproduced and sold to raise funds for the Redress movement, this print came to signify the community’s action to redress the injustices of the past.
Takao Tanabe
Spanish Banks
35×26″
limited edition print
$500
- sold out
2007 Street Banners by Norman Takeuchi
Now on sale $10
After graduating from the Vancouver School of Art in 1962 with a painting scholarship, Norman Takeuchi moved to London, England to concentrate on painting and exhibiting. A year later he returned to Canada and settled in Ottawa to work as an exhibition designer until 1996 when he left his design career to become a full time artist. He has since participated in many solo and group exhibitions and his work is represented in public and private collections in Canada and abroad.
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Bratsa Bonifacho is an internationally recognized brilliant colorist who designed the 2008 Vancouver street banners. These colourful and playful banners are a great way to bring in art and joy into your home.
Now yoga mat bags, shopping bags, shower curtains created out of these banner are available!
