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Kay Sekimachi
VELVET DA VINCI SHOWSCOUNTRY OF RESIDENCEU.S.A. EDUCATIONCalifornia College of Arts And Crafts, Oakland, California, 1946-49, 1955 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Liberty, Maine, 1956 SELECTED EXHIBITIONSSelected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions Makimono: woven scrolls and wall hangings, Jane Sauer Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2007 Lines Converging: Marion Hildebrandt & Kay Sekimachi, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, California, 2005 Homecoming Kay Sekimachi & Bob Stocksdale, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, California, 2005 Lewis Knauss & Kay Sekimachi, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2004 Of Sea, Sand, Shells, Arts Pacifica, Kawaihae, HI, 2004 Kay Sekimachi :Fiberworks, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California, 2002 Intimate Eye: Paper & Fiber Forms of Kay Sekimachi, Mingei Museum of International World Folk Art, San Diego, California, 2001 Intimate Views: The Books of Kay Sekimachi, San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, 2000 The Woven Form: Carole Beadle & Kay Sekimachi, Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, California, 2000 Books, Boxes & Bowls: Kay Sekimachi & Bob Stocksdale, Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut, 1999 Marriage in Form: Kay Sekimachi & Bob Stocksdale, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California, 1993 Travel Venue: The Arkansas Arts Center Decorative Art Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1994 The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri, 1994 Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, 1995 Renwick Gallery of The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1995 American Crafts Museum, New York, New York, 1995 Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1995 Bowls, Kay Sekimachi & Bob Stocksdale, Volcano Art Center Gallery, Hawaii National Park, Hawaii, 1994 Forms of Grace, Kay Sekimachi & Bob Stocksdale, Beelke Gallery, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 1991 Intersections: Kay Sekimachi & Emily Du Bois, Union Gallery, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 1991 Side By Side: Kay Sekimachi & Bob Stocksdale, Contemporary Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan, 1985 Parallel Views: Kay Sekimachi & Nancy Selvin, California Crafts Museum, Palo Alto, California, 1982
Selected Group Exhibitions Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum of California,2007 Saturn Returns: Back to the Future of Fiber Art, Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA, 2007 Craft in America: Expanding Traditions, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2007, Will travel to 6 venues across the country, 2007-2009 Pulp Function, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, 2007 Timeless Vessels, The Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, MA, 2007 Baskets: Beyond Structure, Jane Sauer Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2006 The first Illusion: The Transitional Object, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, 2006 The Presence of Absence: Exploring the Void in Contemporary Wood Sculpture, SOFA, Chicago, IL, 2006 Material Difference, Soft Sculpture and Wall Works, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, 2006 Scents of Purpose: Artists Interpret the Spice Box, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California, 2005 Art of the Book, Treasures from the Bay Area, Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery, San Anselmo, California, 2005 Beyond Tradition: New Ply-split Fiber Sculpture, Contemporary Crafts Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2004 California Design, 2004,Baulines Craft Guild, San Francisco, California, 2004 Asian Fusion, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2004 Constructions & Compositions, Virginia Brier Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2004 Celebrating Nature, Craft Traditions/Contemporary Expressions, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, 2004 Baskets As Art, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2004 Clay, Paper, Wood, Metal, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont, 2003 American Craft Council 2002 Awards Exhibition, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, Oregon 2002 The Red Thread, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2002 Small Works in Fiber, Longhouse Reserve Ltd., East Hampton, New York, 2002 Travel venue: SOFA CHICAGO, 2002, Chicago, IL & Issey Miyake MDS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2002 Baskets Now: USA. Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2002 Baulines Crafts Guild, 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, California, 2002 Expanding the Girth, Bampton, Oxfordshire, & Nehru Centre, London, UK, 2001 Japan: Under the Influence, browngrotta arts, Wilton, Connecticut, 2001 Leading the Way: Asian-American Artists of the Older Generation, Barrington Center for the Arts, Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, 2001 Made in California; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001 The Inaugural Gift: The Founders Circle Collection, The Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2000 The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, 1999 Far Out: Bay Area Design, 1967 - 1973 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1999 - 2000 Making Change; 100 Artists Interpret the Tzedakah Box, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California, 1999 — 2000 Material Witness: Masters of California Crafts, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, 1999 - 2000 The 7th International Shoe Box Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, 2000 Views Inside & Outside of Hawaii, Studio 7 Gallery, Holualoa, Hawaii, 1998-99 Held & Let Go, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, California, 1998-99 Modus Operandi: A Survey of Contemporary Fiber, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1998 Fabricated from Flax, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 1998 Art After Incarceration, Pro Arts, Oakland, California, 1998 Tea Bowl: Imperfect Harmony, Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, Indiana, 1998 Perfection in Form, Sam Maloof, Kay Sekimachi,& Bob Stocksdale, Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1998 The 10th Wave, Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut, 1997 The Fabric of Life: 150 Years of Northern California Fiber Art History, San Francisco State University Art Department Gallery, 1997 New Baskets: Expanding the Concept, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Missouri, 1997 CCAC: Past, Present & Future, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, 1996 Basketry: Structuring Space, Empty & Enclosed, Bingham Gallery, Department of Art, University of Missouri, Columbia, Michigan, 1996 Four Decades of Discovery: 40th Anniversary of American Craft Museum, New York, New York, 1996 Generations: The Lineage of Influence on Bay Area Art, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California, 1996 Fiber: Five Decades from the Permanent Collection, American Crafts Museum, New York, New York, 1995 With New Eyes: Toward an Asian American Art History in the West, Department of Art, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, 1995 The Continuing Tradition of Basketry, International Terminal Gallery, San Francisco International Airport, 1994 Contemporary Craft & The Saxe Collection, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, 1993, Newark Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, 1994 Small Works in Fiber, The Mildred Constantine Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1993 Intimate & Intense, Small Fiber Structures, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1992 In Our Hands: An International Competition, Nagoya, Japan. 1992 Meeting Ground: Contemporary Textile Forms, The Forum, St. Louis, Missouri, 1990 Strength & Diversity: Japanese-American Women 1985-1990, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, 1990 Craft Today, USA, American Crafts Museum, New York, New York, 1986; Europe tour, 1989-1993 The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, 1987 US tour 1987-1989; Japan tour, 1989-1990 Japanese American Craft Invitational, Morikami Museum, Delray Beach, Florida, 1987 Fiber R/Evolution, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1986 Basketry: Tradition in New Form, Institute of Contemporary Art,Boston, Massachusetts, 1982 The Art Fabric: Mainstream, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, US tour, 1981-83 Old Traditions/New Directions, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC, 1981 4th Triennial, Lodz 1981, The Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland, 1981 International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles, British Crafts Center, London, England, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980 Fiber as Art: Americans & Japan, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan, 1977-78 6th Biennale International De La Tapisserie, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1973 Woven Structures, Camden Art Center, London, England, 1972 Deliberate Entanglements, University of California at Los Angeles, California, 1971 Wall Hangings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1968 Modern American Hall Hangings, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England, 1962-1963 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEGuest Instructor Coupeville Arts Center, Coupeville, Washington, 1996 Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 1987 Mendocino Art Center, Apprenticeship Program, Mendocino, California, 1987 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1985 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, 1973, 1983 University of California at Los Angeles, California, 1975 Seattle Pacific College, Seattle, Washington, 1976 Anderson Valley Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado, 1976 San Jose State University, San Jose, California, 1975 California College of Arts And Crafts, Oakland, California, 1956, 1959-1962, 1975 Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California, 1964 TEACHINGInstructor, Berkeley Adult School, Berkeley, California, 1964-1972 Faculty, Adult Division, San Francisco Community College, San Francisco, California, 1965-1986 SELECTED PUBLICATIONSBrowngrotta Arts, Beyond Weaving: International Art Textiles, Browngrotta Arts, Ridgefield, Connecticut Parry, Jennie/Norman, Ralph & Ann, Expanding the Girth, Sagamon, Oxfordshire, UK, 2001 Poon, Irene, Leading the Way: Asian American Artists of the Older Generation, Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, 2001 Leir,Ray/Peters, Jan/Wallace, Kevin, Baskets: Tradition & Beyond, Guild publishing, Madison Wisconsin, 2000 Lonning, Kari, The Art of Basketry, Sterling Publishing Co. Inc. New York, 2000 Austin, Carole/Wada, Yoshiko Iwamoto, Intimate Views: The Books of Kay Sekimachi, San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, 2000 Burgard, Timothy Anglin, The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1999 Trapp, Kenneth/Risatti, Howard, Skilled Work: Craft in the Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1998 Santiago, Chiori, Form & Function, 3 Bay Area Couples Create & Collect, Diablo Magazine, 1998 Turner, Tran, Perfection in Form: Works by Sam Maloof, Kay Sekimachi & Bob Stocksdale, Craft Arts International, No 42, 1998, Sidney, Australia Tromble, Meredith, First Person Craft: Three Bay Area Pioneers, Kay Sekimachi, June Schwarcz & Bob Stocksdale, A Report, San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, Vol. 14, No 4, 1997 Turner, Tran/, Kangas, Mathew/ Perrault, John/ Cooke, Jr., Edward S., Expressions in Wood: Masterworks From the Wornick Collection, The Oakland Museum of Art, 1996 Kay Sekimachi: The Weaver's Weaver: Explorations in Multiple Layers and Three-Dimensional Fiber Art, Fiber Arts Oral History Series, The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, 1996 Mayfield, Signe, "Profile of an Artist: Kay Sekimachi," Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, 1994 Kay Sekimachi, Bob Stocksdale: Books, Boxes & Bowls, Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut, 1999 Marriage in Form: Kay Sekimachi & Bob Stocksdale, Exhibition Catalogue, Essays by Signe Mayfield, Sam Maloof, and Jack Lenor Larsen, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California, 1993 Taragin, Davira S., Contemporary Crafts & The Saxe Collection, The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993 Weltge, Sigrid Wortmann, Women's Work, Textile Art from the Bauhaus, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993 Alba, Victoria, "Against the Grain: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood & Kay Sekimachi," Fiberarts, September/October, 1993 The Tactile Vessel, New Basket Forms, Erie Art Museum, 1989 Levine, Melinda, "Parallel Views: Kay Sekimachi & Nancy Selvin," American Craft, April/May, 1982 Thomas, Michel, L'art Textile, Albert Skira, October, 1985 Talley, Charles, "Kay Sekimachi: Successful on Her Own Terms," Fiberarts, September/October, 1982 Constantine, Mildred/Larsen, Jack Lenor, The Art Fabric: Mainstream, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1980 Waller, Irene, Textile Sculptures, London: Studio Vista, 1977 Hall, Julie, Tradition and Change: The New American Craftsman, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1977 Constantine, Mildred/Larsen, Jack Lenor, Beyond Craft: The Art Fabric, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1973 Kuenzi, Andre, La Nouvelle Tapisserie, Geneve: Les Editions de Bonvent, 1973 Nordness, Lee, Objects: USA, New York: Viking Press, 1970 Kaufman, Ruth, The New American Tapestry, New York: Reinhold Book Corporation, 1968 Uchida, Yoshiko, "Kay Sekimachi," Craft Horizons, May/June, 1959 GRANTS AND AWARDSMaster of the Medium Award, James Renwick Alliance, 2007 Textile Legend, Textile Society of America, 2004 Gold Medal, American Crafts Council, 2002 Women's Caucus for Art, 1997 Fellow, American Craft Council, 1985 NEA Fellowship, 1974 COLLECTIONSThe Jewish Museum, New York The Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, North Carolina The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ma. Mingei International Museum of Folk Art, Balboa Park, San Diego, California. Long House Reserve, East Hampton, Long Island, New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York The Contemporary Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii The Arkansas Arts Center, Decorative Art Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas American Crafts Museum, New York, New York Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota Musée Des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France Oakland Museum, Oakland, California Renwick Gallery of The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, Michigan The De Young Museum, San Francisco, California PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONSAmerican Crafts Council Honorary Member, Baulines Crafts Guild Top |
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