Susan Kunimatsu

To most people, yellow is just a color: simple, bright, visceral, sunny. But FD&C Yellow 5, also known as tartrazine, is a synthetic chemical...

Like most of us, Roger Shimomura has spent the last 10 months in isolation; in his case, his home and studio in Lawrence, Kansas....

It’s hard to appreciate Carrie Yamaoka’s work from photographs. Images that look like people are often reflections on a shiny surface; of the artist,...

Ronald Tau Wo Ho was a renowned jewelry artist, a beloved teacher, and an intrepid and passionate traveler. When he died in 2017, just...

While Japanese gardens typically represent a single historical style, Portland’s garden encompasses five different styles, laid out over an expansive twelve acres. The original plan by Professor Takuma Tono of Tokyo Agricultural University allows visitors to experience the range and history of Japanese garden design.

Modern life bombards us with information, demanding more of our shrinking attention spans and reducing our relationships to clicks and bytes. Everyone needs a...

The purpose of art is to communicate: to share the beauty of an object or place, to convey a feeling, to rally around a cause, to remember a person, to tell a story. Artists create because they have something to say. Humaira Abid has made it her business to speak for those who are not being heard. Growing up in Pakistan, she had to fight for the right to follow her passion: to study art in college and pursue it as a career. She had to push back against her family’s expectations and the role society defined for her as a woman. Later, as a wife, she endured three miscarriages in order to become a mother. Out of these experiences came an empathy for the struggles of all women, that she expresses in her art. The seven works in Searching for Home, her current show at the Bellevue Arts Museum, illuminate the plight of women and children who flee their own countries; the threats that drive them out; and the dangers they encounter as refugees

Ron Ho left his mark on the world. A maker of beautiful jewelry, his monumental necklaces are works of art and storytelling. A teacher...

Seattle lost a brilliant artist and a beloved teacher and friend with the death of Akio Takamori in January. An internationally renowned sculptor in...

Patti Warashina spent her career working in clay, achieving international renown in that medium. But after five decades, she took a chance on a...