I’ll be at the Bellevue Arts Fair presenting a woodcut demo on July 25, & helping Kathleen Hargrave with her mokuhanga workshop on the 26th. I’ll also have a few pieces exhibiting at the Avenue Bellevue Gallery.
Living Traditions: Japanese Art & Resilience in the Pacific Northwest is a new multicultural exhibition series launching on July 12, curated by Anna Moblard Meier & Shizu Usami. The exhibition celebrates Japanese artistic traditions not as artifact but as living practices—made & carried forward by the communities that have shaped the creative life of the Pacific Northwest. During the Bellevue Arts Fair weekend on July 24-26, visitors can encounter calligraphy, woodblock printing, ceramics, ikebana, taiko, & haiku through demos, workshops, & performances.
Beyond the weekend, the series lives as a growing online exhibition hosted on the BAF website, including curatorial essays on each art form & artist, historical & cultural context, links to Nikkei historical societies & archives, & an interactive cultural map representing Japanese American artistic traditions, culture, & communities across the Northwest. The website goes live on July 12 as well. Each year will celebrate different living traditions!
Yoshi Nakagawa 
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