Across time, culture and class, the idea of the Mother has achieved the status of myth, yet it embodies countless contradictions. This most intimate relationship is ultimately unknowable. To consider one’s maternal lineage and to depict familial roles and relationships is like documenting a hall of mirrors, reflections and distortions abound — ultimately the images reflect…
Center for Photographic Art is holding its annual 8 x10 Auction on iGavel with 130 artists articipating. Minatos features the Japanese American baseball team of the same name. It’s part of the Balancing Cultures series. The name translates to “harbor” or “port.” The text is from the monument at Manzanar and reads: May the injustices and humiliation suffered here…
Our Mothers Ourselves: Legacies That Shape Us will open Thursday, September 18, 2025 in the Fredrick Lawton Gallery, MIAD. Official reception will be Thursday October 18….
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Justin Ahrens, President & Chief Creative Officer of Rule29™ (Phoenix, Chicago, Omaha & Los Angeles), interviews Jerry Takigawa. In this episode of Design Of, Jerry shares how his Japanese American heritage, his parents’ experience with internment, and his lifelong creative practice have shaped the way…
Takigawa Photograph Selected for Praxis Gallery and Photo Center International Juried Photography Exhibition “The Artist Intervenes.”
Photographic artists are reconsidering the potential of a photograph with a shift to making rather than taking photographs. By using vintage and contemporary photographs as a starting point, artists create physically layered works of art that result in…