Month: November 2018
Demonstration for OCMA Docents (Orange County Museum of Art)
Setting up at OCMA, my faithful sidekick ever present.
Warmly welcomed by the docents of OCMA (Orange County Museum of Art). It was an honor to speak and demonstrate the old traditional approach to gyotaku. Hopefully, it was a seed planted for a future collaboration!
Taught my First Class at NPS’s Annual Workshop in NC
Taught my first Gyotaku printing class at the annual Nature Printing Society’s workshop, this year at Wildacres in North Carolina. The class was centered around Japanese philosophy, sensibility and defining personal process using the original old world materials of Sumi Ink and Washi Paper.
I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and found it really encouraging to see veteran and new printers alike working together so enthusiastically (I had them pair up with a partner).
Looking forward to teaching again!
Demonstrating at NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) & Scripps in San Diego
Through my dear friends at Catalina Offshore Products, I was invited to a dinner event at NOAA in San Diego, California to demonstrate traditional gyotaku printing in front of a large crowd of marine scientists, environmentalists, and very eco-savy seafood chefs and commercial fishermen.
I think a very good impression was made as many new doors within the scientific community opened up immediately afterwards. I anticipate that I’ll be commuting to San Diego a lot more often in the very near future!