Author: ynakagawa36

You’ll find affordable ceramics, fiber arts, glasswork, jewelry, original prints, paintings, wire sculpture, and works on paper at the Maker’s Table! Free entry for all ages, the event features thirteen South Sound artists selling their artwork and connecting with the community:

Baso Glass offers jewelry, cups, vases, bowls, pitchers, and other functional hand-blown glassware. basoglass.com

Ixia Tile Tacoma produces one-of-a-kind handmade tile and ceramic architecture as well as functional pottery such as mugs, plates, platters and bowls. Clays and glazes are sourced in Tacoma. ixia71.wixsite.com/ixiatiletacoma

Katherine Hogan makes wire sculpture designed to play with form, light, and shadow. Looping wire since 2006 and influenced by natural elements & PNW landscapes. katherineahogan.com

Maria Jost creates fine art prints, inspired by the beautiful patterns and processes of nature. She’ll have high quality giclee prints, stickers and a few custom framed prints available at her table. mariajost.com

Mary Mann brings oil paintings on wood to the Maker’s Table. Find her amazing murals all around Tacoma! marymannpainter.com

Paige Pettibon’s artwork reflects her Black and Bitterroot Salish identity, made to be felt, seen, and celebrated by all. Come through for original pieces, digital prints, handmade jewelry, and stickers that carry story and soul. paigepettibon.com

Saiyare Refaei has Justseeds art and publications, as well as their own prints and stickers available. Some items will be available to support Palestine related fundraisers. justseeds.org/artist/saiyarerefaei 

Solidago Grow creates color, prints, and patterns on natural fibers using dye plants and flowers. Inspired by nature, slow sustainable living, and bringing the natural world into your daily life. solidagogrow.com

Springtide Press makes limited-edition letterpress printed artist books, broadsides and ephemera.springtidepress.com

Teruko Nimura is a multi-disciplinary artist offering small ceramic sculptures, planters, and functional wares inspired by the Japanese card game Hana Fuda, and her mixed Asian heritage. terukonimuraart.net

The Quilted Line uses sewing machines and weaving looms to create accessories for you and your home: handwoven scarves, pillows, handbags and quilts. thequiltedline.com

Vernon Ng is a multimedia artist seeking the magic in the local. He offers mushroom spore prints from the South Sound and agate jewelry sourced around the Salish Sea. IG @vernonfiloteong

Yoshi Nakagawa brings original prints to the table: etchings, woodcuts, linocuts, monotypes, letterpress printed broadsides and lithographs. yoshinakagawa.com

Presented by ACE Accelerating Creative Enterprise

https://www.tacomaartslive.org/events/makers-table/

Instagram: @Makers_Table_Tacoma

Maker’s Table logo by Mary Mann

Mark your calendars for Saturday, August 16th! Yoshi Nakagawa and Saiyare Refaei will be doing a live printing demonstration at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle’s Central District from 1-2 pm followed by a brief talk and some of their other prints for purchase. This event is free to the public.

Yoshi and Saiyare have followed a similar journey: both from Oregon, both studied in universities in Tacoma and they met at el Taller Rufino Tamayo in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2013 while taking printmaking classes from Maestro Oswaldo Ramírez. They reconnected in 2017 in Oaxaca and now reside in Tacoma. This past spring, they designed their first collaboration for Tacoma Wayzgoose’s steamroller printing event. Together they carved a 2’x3’ linoleum block and called the image “Sound,” which they’ll be printing an edition on Pratt’s large etching press. 

You can find more of their art on Instagram at @yoshi.nakagawa36 and @_saikick_ or Saiyare’s website justseeds.org/artist/saiyarerefaei. 

In my individual show, Simple Life, I’ll be exhibiting various printmaking techniques focused on flora, fauna and landscapes. As artists and stewards of nature, we experience a simple life that nourishes, heals, and inspires us. We find beauty in patterns and repetition—and we return the deed by preserving, protecting and advocating for the wellness of the natural world.

There’ll be food & refreshments at the free & all ages opening reception from Wild Dreams Farm & Seed on Vashon Island. Their seeds will also be for sale! Visit wilddreamsfarm.org and more info on the Miller Library website

Committee member, vendor, & steamroller artist with Saiyare Refaei at the Tacoma Main Library! Linocut poster by Liz Morrow, also available for purchase at the Tacoma Wayzgoose. More info: write253.org/tacoma-wayzgoose

Free & all ages reception on February 20, 2025, 5:30-7:30pm

Exhibiting large formatted prints and mixed media works on paper with thread stitching. As makers of art, we mend ourselves and our audience. We learn from mistakes, repair what’s been broken, and heal our wounds. We find beauty in patterns, repetition and simplicity—while patching ideas together.

I’ll have a table selling my artwork at Postmark Center for the Arts’ Holiday Art Market in Auburn, mark your calendars!

My artwork will be featured on the guest wall of Proctor Gallery, from November 4-January 5. November 10 is reception day from 12-3pm, hope to see you there!

3811 N 26th St, Tacoma, WA 98407. Open Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm & Saturday 10am-5pm. Proctor Artwalk is November 16 & December 21 from 3-7pm.

This piece was commissioned by the Annie Wright Schools Artist Fellows. The border linocuts were made by me—inspired by the chapel’s stained glass, the school’s emblem, carpet, & plaid uniform.

The center linocuts were made by the upper school’s Varsity Arts students, with a theme of an object they identify as home, giving them a sense of belonging. There are many international students attending AWS, and it was a joy getting to know their community in Tacoma.

Thank you to Annie Wright Schools, Annie Green, and Coach Heidi Grace. In memory of Chandler O’Leary, who developed this program in 2022, and contributed so much to the Tacoma art community.

Furusato (meaning homeland in Japanese) is an exhibition that expresses my Japanese American identity—being a steward of the land I inhabit in the Pacific Northwest. Born and raised with Japanese immigrant parents in the NW, I’ve struggled to find home and a sense of belonging. Upon my return from living abroad, I realized that the Northwest is my home; especially when hiking mountains and coastlines and gardening edible, medicinal and ornamental plants. Nature heals, cares for, and teaches us if we observe and return the deed.

Furusato is a series of quilts using Japanese washi paper with relief and monotype prints of NW native flora and landscapes. The show includes four community quilts sewn together with prints by workshop participants from the Asia Pacific Cultural Center, the Tacoma Public Library, and the Science and Math Institute (SAMi High School). Quilts have historically united communities, and creating this body of work brought us together with the natural world, reflecting on identity, belonging, and collective support.

I learned natural dyeing processes to color washi at Wild Dreams Farm & Seed on Vashon Island. They grow all plants from seed that make various pigments, and our collaboration further enhanced this connection with the land. This project honors the Indigenous individuals who helped interned Japanese Americans during WWII maintain and rebuild farms upon their return to the land. Furusato acknowledges homeland, and the mutual generosity between these two communities that are bonded by empathy for loss of their land and homes. We mend our wounds, stitch by stitch, as stewards of nature and makers of art.

Funded in part by the Tacoma Artists Initiative Program from the Tacoma Arts Commission.

Come spend the day on Vashon at the Japan Festival! Find me at my booth from 12-2, and print your free keepsake of my Japanese themed linocuts. Free entry, all ages.