News Archives - 2007
Japanese artists visit Augsburg
Ayomi Yoshida’s gift wrap collection at Target has been described as making presents look too pretty to open.
A fourth-generation Japanese printmaker, designer, and installation artist, Yoshida will present her design and art on Tuesday, Feb. 27, from 9:40 - 10:40 a.m., in the Marshall Room, Christensen Center, with commentary by Matthew Welch, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
From 1:30 to 2:30, Welch will lead a tour to Target Corp. headquarters in downtown Minneapolis to view Yoshida’s permanent installation. Space on the tour is limited. Contact morgank@augsburg.edu.
Bidou Yamaguchi, Yoshida’s husband, is a master Noh mask carver who has demonstrated his carving and painting techniques at museums internationally. He will present his art on Monday, Feb. 26, from 9:10 - 10:10 a.m. in the Marshall Room, Christensen Center (with commentary by Matthew Welch), and from 11 a.m. - noon (with commentary by Martha Johnson, theatre arts).
Ayomi Yoshida was a guest lecturer at Augsburg in 1992 and is the niece of printmaker Toshi Yoshida, who taught two summers at Augsburg in the early 1970s. The family has kept a close friendship with Professor Emeritus Eugene Skibbe, who taught in Augsburg’s religion department and has published books on the Yoshida family artists.