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Mingei International Museum acquires Laura Kina’s work for “Blue Gold: The Art and Science of Indigo”
The Mingei International Museum commissioned and acquired Laura Kina’s “Hajichi Quilt” 2023, 28.25″x29.5″ for their exhibition Blue Gold: The Art and Science of Indigo on view Sep 14, 2024 – Mar 16, 2025. Blue Gold: The Art and Science of Indig Mingei International Museum Located in Balboa Park at 1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101…
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Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within – Yale University Press/The Noguchi Museum. Preorders now available
We are excited to announce an expansive monograph titled, Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within, by The Noguchi Museum, in association with Yale University Press, is available for preorders! https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300267402/toshiko-takaezu/ Edited by Glenn Adamson, Dakin Hart and Kate Wiener Contributions by Ai Fukunaga, Nonie Gadsden, Diana Jocelyn Greenwold, Laura Kina, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Margo Machida, Laura Mott and…
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Laura Kina on Rediscovering Family “Ghost Stories” Through Art
Published on August 4, 2023, by the newly launched Japanese Canadian Arts and Activism Project, this interview with Laura Kina was conducted by Shō Tanaka on July 25th, 2018. ““Can I think beyond my body? Can I feel beyond my city? Can I see beyond islands? Can I dream beyond nation states? And still be…
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Exhibition Catalog “Over the Rainbow, One More Time”
Now available – exhibition catalog for Laura Kina’s solo show “Over the Rainbow, One More Time” at the Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery March 26-May 6, 2023 curated by director Joanne Aono. Thank you to Young Sun Choi for photographing the work and RAC board member Dan Streeting for designing the catalog. 32 pages, full…
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Verge Spring 2023 cover artwork and Featured article
Laura Kina’s 2019 painting “Ufushu Gajumaru (Giant Banyon Tree), Valley of Gangala, Okinawa, Japan” is on the front cover and her “Holding On” series is featured in an article by Ryan Buyco “Finding New Routes”: Visualizing an Oceanic Okinawa in Laura Kina’s Holding On (2019) in the Spring 2023 issue of Verge: Studies in Global Asias.
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Fukki Qualia – Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum
Laura Kina’s artwork “Hajichi,” from the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum’s permanent collection, is featured in “Fukki Qualia: Collection Exhibition in the 50th Year from the Reversion of Okinawa to Japan” July 20, 2022-January 15, 2023.