Joan Takayama-Ogawa

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Full Name	Joan Takayama-Ogawa
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Jan 1, 1955(1955-01-01)
Age	69
Birthplace	Pasadena
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Capricorn

Joan Takayama-Ogawa Biography

Joan Takayama-Ogawa is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on January 1, 1955 in Pasadena, California, United States. Joan Takayama Ogawa (born January 1st 1955) is a Sansei (third-generation) ceramicist from Japan and is currently a an instructor at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. Takayama-Ogawa’s legacy from 15th- century Japanese ceramics is a major influence on her work, which usually investigates beauty, decoration narrative and ornamentation, while engaging in a discussion that defies the role that women have traditionally played in Japanese tradition. Her latest work deals with questions like climate change.

Takayama-Ogawa’s earliest works are usually composed of teapot or tea bowl, which refer to the rich traditions of the tea ceremony in Japan. However, in the Elaine Levin’s Ceramics Monthly article, she also mentions, along with Keiko Fukazawa Keiko Fukazawa, Keiko Fukazawa “Both artists admit that they have vigorously resisted the narrow, traditional role of women in Japanese culture, yet the teapot and the tea bowl of the tea ceremony–forms that have an important relation to ceramics tradition, and to women and culture in Japan–have had a significant impact on the work of both.”

After graduation from Stanford Takayama-Ogawa began her first teaching job with the Crossroads School in Santa Monica, CA in 1979, in which she was a faculty member and Academic Dean. Then, she decided to pursue her studies through the Otis College of Art and Design in 1985. The was the same year that she was promoted to her current post in Otis in the capacity of a professor of Ceramics and product Design, English and Public Speaking. In 2010, she was promoted to Ceramics Coordinator. She was responsible for “bringing clay back to Otis with a focus on 3D printing and clay”. In 2012, in the course of her position she organized an initiative sponsored by the corporate together with Gainey Ceramics, where students created models that were manufactured and sold via Gainey. She has also facilitated three workshops to develop faculty for the 2011. Clay in LA Symposium.

Joan Takayama-Ogawa Net Worth

Joan Takayama-Ogawa is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joan Takayama-Ogawa 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

When Ogawa took up ceramics classes in the summer of her youth during the time she was employed as an Academic Dean for Crossroads School in Santa Monica she realized the new art form was linked to her own personal story. She had previously been aware that her family living in Osaka had donated a large assortment consisting of Japanese ceramics and pottery pieces to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the 1960s. It included ceramics by Kenkichi Tomimoto and Kenzan Ogata. However, she has discovered that her family’s heritage includes an extensive tradition of producing ceramics at Tokoname, Japan dating back to the 15th century. Judy Seckler notes in Ceramics Monthly, “Recollecting the Past”, “This talent for claywork lay dormant in her genes until it was given a chance to bubble up to the surface and lay the groundwork for her new life as a clay artist.” In the midst of it all, following, she realized that her desire to work with clay “escalated into an obsession,” she quit her middle school teaching job to pursue a career in the field of ceramics.

Takayama-Ogawa began her extensive studies through Takayama-Ogawa’s International Christian University, Tokyo in the year she was twenty years old. In Tokyo she spent the next year learning the language of conversation in Japanese and was interested to learn more about the family’s connections to Japanese ceramics. In this school, she was first exposed to Jomon pottery by a professor and expert J. E. Kidder and was the start for the “life long interest in archeology and geology.” She continued to pursue the Bachelor of Fine Arts in East Asian studies and geography from UCLA in 1978. Then she earned her Master of Arts at the Stanford Graduate School of Education in 1979 and her final ceramics training through the Otis College of Art and Design, LA in 1989. While at Otis, Ogawa studied with Ralph Bacerra, chair of Otis’s department of ceramics. Bacerra’s teaching emphasized the material’s ability to perform over concepts and his focus on the appearance, surface and finish directly influenced her aesthetic selections in her early ceramic works.

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