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Keiko Okamoto

 

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Influenced by her grandfathers who had been in Kimono business, Keiko's first interests was fabric design, particularly the use  fibers, yarns, and dyes.

She mastered kimono fabric design/painting and  fabric design for Western clothing. Her fabrics  can be seen in the  permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and have been appeared in Utsukushii Kimono (Beautiful Kimono) magazines.

   
  Using her knowledge of Kimono fabric making, she illustrated holiday cards between 1996 and 2008. The series of cards were made into an artist book, "Textiles & the Japanese Zodiac,"  with solar plate etching when she was in the United States. She also made a manuscript for children's picture book, "Let's Wear a Kimono" from the series.
 
Publication

 

Let's Wear a Kimono, 2010 . A children's picture e-book  

ISBN: 978-1-4523-2517-0

Available at iPhone & iPad (iBook,) Barns & Noble (Nook,) Sony, Kobo, and   Diesel.  

Exhibition

 

SCBWI Tokyo Illustrators, at Genkan Gallery, Tokyo American Club (Dec. 2008)

Ten Years Soaring: Phoenix Rising Celebrates a Decade of Printmaking, at the Wehrle Gallery, Ohio Dominican University, Columbus, OH  (Oct. 2008)

Let's Wear a Kimono, A Book from Twelve-year Holiday Cards, at Gallery Aizome, Tokyo (Apr. 2008)

SCBWI Tokyo Showcase at Bologna Children's Book Fair, Bologna, Italy (Apr. 2008)

llustrators' show at High Road Gallery, Columbus, OH (Oct. 2006)

Phoenix Rising Printmakers & Glass Axis at High Road Gallery, Columbus, OH (Sep. 2005)

 

German Village Art Crawl, Columbus OH (Jul. 2004)

Contemporary Japanese Textiles at Museum of Modern Art, NY (1998)

Kimono & Silver Jewelry at Hori Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo (1992)

 
Affiliation

 

The Society for Fashion Business, Fashion Business Gakkai (2010-)

Phoenix Rising Printmaking Co-op ,

      Associate member (2004-)

Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, Tokyo (2004-)

     Advisory Committee member (2004-2008)

Wexner Center for the Arts, Docent (2001-2004)


 
Book Project

Solar Plate Etching with Watercolor pencils, 2004


MoMA
Contemporary Japanese textiles  at Museum of Modern Art, 1998

Private Exhibition

at  Hori Gallery, 1992

 

Private Exhibition

at  Gallery Aizome 2008

 

Works in Utsukushii Kimono magazine, 1989