Satomi Kawai/Women: Hood

This is an exciting announcement about our upcoming exhibition of the third edition of our project, hosted by Public Space One, Iowa City, IA, this fall, featuring a new interview clip of life stories by eight women, and a new body of work by the team and guest artists.    

OPENING RECEPTION with a live-performance, guest talk, and discussion:  

Saturday, October 18th, 6 pm – 8 pm

Public Space One, Closed House

538 S. Gilbert  St, Iowa City, Iowa 52240

We are going to have free public physical activities for self-care, including a Zumba Party and a Yoga session. — Date and time will be announced.  

I am excited to announce that I will be a part of a group exhibition of Iowa artists co-curated by Alyss Vernon and Kathy Edwards Hayslett. You will see a mix of Olson-Larsen Galleries artists and invited artists who employ media and techniques that challenge oversimplified notions of what it is to be an artist.  The word “hybrid” in this exhibition means that the fourteen Iowa-based artists in the exhibition work in different techniques or styles. Several of the exhibiting artists work in multiple media, such as painting and ceramics, or metal and fabric. Others combine techniques in the same work, and still others work in totally different styles all together.  

My artworks include jewelry (necklaces, and brooches) with meditational drawings and meixed midea paintings.  

OPENING RECEPTION:  Saturday, December 9th, 2pm – 5pm

Olson-Larsen Galleries

542 5th St, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265

info@olsonlarsen.com    515.277.6734

I am excited to announce that I will be a part of a group exhibition of Iowa artists co-curated by Alyss Vernon and Kathy Edwards Hayslett. You will see a mix of Olson-Larsen Galleries artists and invited artists who employ media and techniques that challenge oversimplified notions of what it is to be an artist.  The word “hybrid” in this exhibition means that the fourteen Iowa-based artists in the exhibition work in different techniques or styles. Several of the exhibiting artists work in multiple media, such as painting and ceramics, or metal and fabric. Others combine techniques in the same work, and still others work in totally different styles all together.  

My artworks include jewelry (necklaces, and brooches) with meditational drawings and meixed midea paintings.  

OPENING RECEPTION:  Saturday, December 9th, 2pm – 5pm

Olson-Larsen Galleries

542 5th St, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265

info@olsonlarsen.com    515.277.6734

We have been exploring how to be a woman through interviews.  And then our artist team creates our responses in the form of artworks. Based in Iowa City, Iiowa, USA,  the collective sought and recorded interviews with 7 diverse women living in Iowa and beyond. 

The Second  edition of “Women: hood”  online show  is up  here on my website under menu “womanhood 2nd”.    

OPENING RECEPTION

October 7th, Saturday, 6:00- 8:00 pm

Women’s Resource and Action Center, 

University of Iowa, Bowman House, 230 N Clinton St, Iowa City, IA 52245

Our international group “Nuda Vita II” is organized by Ilaria Ruggiero, the director of  “A/dornment Contemporary Art Jewelry.” We were not able to participate in this year’s Munich Jewellery Week because of the COVID-19 pandemic. We will hopefully be featuring our works there next year. 

Our satellite show of Munich Jewellery Week 2021 is still going at Gilded Pear Gallery, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA.  Do not miss out to see my and my artist-friend, Jillian Moore’s most recent jewelry pieces online and in-person.  Online view or make an arrangement for your  personal view at the gallery.  

And here is our show arcile on Daily Iowan.     

Women: hood explores complex experiences of femininity through interviews and responsive art works. Based in Iowa City, Iowa, USA, the collective sought and recorded interviews with 10 women living in the state of Iowa and beyond. These women’s stories, along with the art they inspired, are the heart of this project. 

The first edition of “Women: hood”  online show  is up  here on my website under menu “project“.    

Zoom reception: 6/5, 7:30- 8:10 pm, CDT, USA 

Meeting ID: 811 9967 2334

Passcode: 181103

Munich Jewellery Week 2021 is happening this week.  To adjust to the pandemic situation on the globe, “NUDA VITA” presents their conference online, March 12 11:30 am, CST, USA (6:30 pm. European standard time)

Registration online link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvf-GhqjgqGdMAyqb-iDOqoIOe_xi5AUyO

I will give a small talk about he series of my jewelry piece, titled “Emational Body,”based on my research on nudity in Japanese culture, focused on “Tangled Hair” by Akiko Yosano, a Japanese female peot/ educator/ pioneear of Japanese Feminism in 100 years ago.