Ruth Asawa was a Japanese-American artist born in 1926 to farming parents in California. Asawa experienced first-hand the Asian discrimination that was rampant after the attack on Pearl Harbor in WWII. She and her family were forced to stay at an internment camp in Arkansas for 18 months. But it...
Ushio Shinohara was a Japanese artist who is known for his contributions to the Neo-Dada Movement in the 1960's. Shinohara was born in 1932 in Tokyo to a poet father and painter mother who helped instill his love for art early on in his life. He studied oil painting at...
Chang Ucchin was born in 1917 in Japanese-colonized Korea. He is most famous for his contributions to modern Korean fine art. He learned western art techniques at the Imperial School of Art in Tokyo and would go on to be a professor, teaching fine arts in Korea at the Seoul...
Most are only familiar with Yoko Ono as a musician and activist, but she is also an accomplished artist. Born in 1933 in Tokyo City, Japan, Ono faced many hardships throughout her childhood. She experienced the Great Tokyo Air Raid of 1945, sheltered with her family in a bunker, which...
In honor of AAPI, the Goose Grease family wanted to highlight some of the many projects we've worked on that have been inspired by several Asian and Pacific Island cultures. These are fun art activities that can be done at home with your kids that can also help them learn...
