PhD Student Michiko Kubota Conducts Research in Chicago
Utagawa Kunimasa IV, The Balloonist: Palace on High People Are Talking About, 1891, polychrome woodblock print triptych Collection of Roland L. Oliver.
Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan, The Art Institute of Chicago
Yoshida Fujio’s three works, Flowering Kale (1953), Yellow Iris (1954), Nasturtium (1954). Art Institute of Chicago. A Sign of Things to Come: Prints by Japanese Women Artists After 1950.
Michiko Kubota next to Utagawa Kokunimasa's, Hell Courtesan, circa 1900, pair of six panel screens with ink and color, gold pigment and silver leaf on paper. Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan at the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL.
PhD student Michiko Kubota traveled to Chicago, IL in May to conduct research for her MA. She attended the Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan symposium and visited its corresponding exhibition at the Smart Museum. She also visited the Art Institute of Chicago for its three exhibitions showcasing women artists and Japanese as well as Japanese American artists who are usually overlooked in their respective mediums– Radical Clay: Contemporary Artists from Japan; Foreign Exchange: Photography between Chicago, Japan, and Germany, 1920-1960; A Sign of Things to Come: Prints by Japanese Women Artists After 1950. This trip was supported by the department of History of Art.
