Come and enjoy a wonderful art exhibition featuring the work of esteemed Japanese-Canadian artist Naoko Takenouchi.
Naoko Takenouchi has devoted most of her life to honing her craft as a glassblower and artist. Throughout her highly successful career, she has completed extensive training, including a four-year degree in design and glassblowing at Tama Art University, in Tokyo, as well as further training in glassblowing in New York. Her work experience continued at the Swedish Centre Foundation in Northern Japan, and after she moved to Canada in 1990, to pursue her career as an artist, she worked in the New-Small & Sterling Studio in Vancouver on Granville Island. Takenouchi has exhibited her work at galleries and museums all over the world, and her work has been included in the New Glass Review 16, Contemporary Glass: Color, Light & Form from Guild Publishing, as well as many other national and international publications.
Takenouchi has received many awards in Canada, including the Canada Council “mid-career” grant.
She has also been commissioned to make the Governor General's Performing Art's Awards since 2003.