Chieko Shimizu Fujioka, a glass mosaic artist based in San Jose, California, specializes in public installations and private residential commissions. Born and raised in Japan, Chieko established her career after moving to the Bay Area and is now entering her pre-mid-career phase as a professional artist. Here, she shares her journey, along with the mindsets that have helped her maintain resilience and a healthy balance between her demanding career and personal life.
Read moreQ&A with Shirin Towfiq
Shirin is an interdisciplinary artist working with an emphasis on installation, sculptural photography, textiles, and printmaking. Drawing from her positionality as a second-generation Iranian refugee, her artwork explores the complexities of belonging and placemaking through archival research and intergenerational communication with a diasporic lens. She focuses on everyday practices of belonging and visual culture, as produced by migrants, and reflects on the traces of diaspora to investigate cultural memory, history, and temporality.
Read moreQ&A with Holly Lane
Artist Holly Lane has reimagined a new art form of her own invention, in which each component—painting and frame—is fundamental to the work as a whole. Holly has exhibited in two solo shows at NUMU, Not Enough Time to Love the World and Holly Lane–In the Artist’s Studio. Read on to hear her answer questions about her artistic practice, goals, and more!
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