Art Exhibitions at CRS

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Reiko Fujisawa

Akane Ito

Akiko Kato

Emi Koda

Beverly Mastropolo

Misha McGlown

Erin Orr

Lake Simons

Junko Yamada

Open Studio Workshop for Children

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About Akiko Kato

Born in Kanazawa city, Japan. Akiko Kato came to New York to explore art & design. A graduate of Parsons School of Design with a BFA in illustration in 2001. She has also
worked as a textile designer and graphic artist in New York fashion industry for years. Living in Brooklyn. Her illustrations frequently appear in New Yorker magazine.

"Illustration ideas often come to me in series of bright visions. Stronger images appear whenever some music, books, or visual arts stimulate my senses. These visions are transient, flash across and fade out, just like fireflies. I always carry a tiny sketchbook so that I can catch these inspirations which transform to colorful images through my interpretation. I believe vivid hue have positive vibrations, so I like to use bright colors. Since my work is the product of my imagination, they come out to be dreamy and ethereal. It would be my pleasure if people can see a fragment of beauty from my illustrations." — Akiko Kato

About Misha McGown

A native of Detroit, MI, Misha McGlown attended Wayne State University and Center for Creative Studies (CCS). She has become best known for her jewelry collection, entitled Omo Misha - which means Misha's children in Yoruba. The name, Omo Misha, has come to identify the artist and her myriad creative endeavors.
For the past five years, Misha has worked as a visual arts instructor for The Children's Art Carnival in New York. She also works in the African, American, and Asian Studies programs for Symphony Space, and is Lead Artist in Residency for Artist's Collective for Social Change (ACSC), NJ. She has worked on a freelance/consultancy basis for many organizations, including Arts Horizons (NJ), The Congreso Girls' Center (Philadelphia), and Manhattan Youth. A prolific and multi-faceted artist and visionary, Misha publishes an Internet 'zine - The Omo Misha Times - which covers art, fashion, fun, and social consciousness. Her jewelry is available at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and she is currently developing a body of paintings made possible, in part, by The Puffin Foundation.

About Erin Orr

Erin Orr is a storyteller and puppeteer who began creating puppet shows in 1998 as an experiment in how shadow puppetry, marionettes, Toy Theater and animation could be combined and used to tell stories visually. After creating and presenting three short pieces about transformation she began making her first full length piece “Savage Nursery” as part of the Dream Music Puppetry Program at HERE. Savage Nursery was a dark fairytale for adult audiences, which set shadow, and bun raku inspired puppetry to live original music by Sxip Shirey and Rima Fand. Savage Nursery received two grants from the Jim Henson Foundation and was able to tour through an expeditions grant from New England Foundation for the Arts. She has focused on collaborating with living composers for the last five years, and most recently received a Henson grant to create a musical puppet circus called “It’s a Bee, Honey!” with the legendary street performer and composer Baby Dee. She is currently continuing her collaboration with composer Rima Fand on “Don Cristobal, Billy-Club Man”, a puppet opera exploring Lorca’s interest in the Spanish Punch through the HERE Artist Residency Program.

About Lake Simons

Lake Simons enjoys making experiments with puppets, movement, and live music. She is a director, physical theatre artist, puppeteer, painter, set designer, puppet and mask designer and builder, and a prop and craft artisan. Lake’s current project is White Elephant being created collaboratively with the composer John Dyer. It has been developed at St. Ann’s Puppet Labapalooza and Dixon Place. This summer their puppetry and music adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland will be presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and performed by the students of Texas Woman’s University. Lake has a lifetime association with the Hip Pocket Theatre in Fort Worth, Texas and has performed in over 30 world premieres and created puppets for original work in collaboration with writer/director (and father of Lake) Johnny Simons. In 2007 Lake collaborated and performed with her sister and father and made Trio Molemo presented at the Hip Pocket Theatre. In 2006 she and a group of artists developed and created a movement puppet play entitled How I Fixed My Engine with Rose Water, premiering at the Hip Pocket Theatre and later presented in New York at the Voice 4 Vision Puppetry Festival. In their 2005 summer season HPT presented her puppet adaptation of the 1940’s film Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid. Also in 2005 she assisted in creating HPT’s Cowown Puppetry Festival. She received a grant from the Hartland Fund to present her What’s inside the egg? at HPT in 2004. They funded the first leg of development of Alice in Wonderland (2003) with co-creator John Dyer. Also at HPT: Paper Plane (2002) a one woman show inspired by Amelia Earhart and directed by Harold Lehmann, Inky Pod (1998) with music by Michael Bodycomb, and dogman (1999) with music by Michael Bodycomb. In New York alongside co-creator and composer John Dyer she continued the development of the puppets, set design, and movement for their adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland presented by Dream Music Puppetry and HERE Theatre in 2006. In 2003 Dream Music Puppetry and HERE Theatre presented her and Dyer’s What’s inside the egg? through HERE’s artist residence program (HARP). Lake designed puppets for Division 13’s Visiting the Dead and Kristin Marting’s Erendira. At HERE Theatre's American Living Room Festival she has premiered her Prairie, what prairie? (2001). At the Puppet Parlor at HERE Lake has performed many excerpts of works-in-progress including elements of white elephant (2004), What's inside the egg? (2002) and The Hand Speaks (2001). She is a 2004 recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a 2006 recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Seed Grant, and 2007 Jim Henson Project Grant for her and Dyer’s upcoming White Elephant. She has designed sets, masks, and/or puppets for the University of Texas at Arlington, Fort Worth Opera, and Dallas Children's Theatre. Lake has puppeteered for Basil Twist in his Amahl and the Night Visiters, La Bella Dormente, Symphonie Fantastique, Long Christmas Ride Home, Petrushka, Master Peter's Puppet Show, and Red Beads with Mabou Mines. She has puppeteered for Dan Hurlin’s Hiroshima Maiden presented at Saint Ann’s Warehouse. Also as a puppeteer: Matthew Acheson’s Dreamlife of a Garden Gnome, Erin Orr’s Savage Nursery, and Christopher Williams’ Vulpus Ferox and St. Francis of Assisi. She has participated as properties master for several theatres in the NYC area. Lake co-curated the 2008 Great Small Works Toy Theatre Festival at St. Ann’s Warehouse. For many years Lake was the curator for a performance evening called Lake’s Friends, which encourages the creation of new artistic works. Lake is a proud member of Fjork, a puppetry cooperative. She attended Ecole Jacques Lecoq (96-98), and holds a BFA in scene design (1996) from the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Junko Yamada was born in Kyoto, Japan on Dec.13, 1964. She grew up in the beach resort area of MIYAZU, a beautiful area of Japan located about two hours west of Kyoto. In and around Miyazu, there are waterfalls, beautiful tree and mountains. She lived in Kyoto from 1982-1986, in Boston, MA frin 1986-1988, in the Washington, D.C. area from 1991-2000 and in NY from the summer of 2000 to the present. Junko endeavors to introduce and shares aspects of Japanese life and culture through her works. She tries to work in a happy and cheerful mood. Working in great detail, she typically uses thousands of small pieces from a wide variety of papers to complete each art pieces. During her stay in Japan from 1988-1991 and in subsequent visits Junko did extensive shopping for rare and Hard-to-find paper throughout Japan. Additionally, her friends in Japan occasionally send her batches of assorted sheets of paper. In recent years, the selection of papers now available in the U.S. has seen a dramatic increase much to her delight. Working primarily from individual or series of photographs as her subject, Junko uses an xacto knife, Yamato glue (from Japan), rollers, two-sided tape, tweezers, pins, tracing paper, pencil, drawing pad, a cutting pad, and of course many types of paper to complete her works. Her subject includes Japanese and American landscapes and sceneries as well as portraits and abstract works. Most of her works are in multi-color, while some portraits are in monochrome. Her works have been exhibited in many galleries and shows the last eleven years.