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Kay Sekimachi Fiber Artist American (San Francisco, California, 1926 - ) active Berkeley, California View objects by this artist.

Lives in Berkeley, California (2008)

Kay Sekimachi is a leading textile and fiber artist. She returned to Berkeley after internment at the Topaz Relocation Camp. She studied textiles at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, 1954-1955, under Trude Guermonprez, a former Bauhaus instructor. Summer workshops at Maystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine complemented her education. Her use of nylon monofilament in the sixties represents her interest in experimenting with lights, structure and contemporary materials. She has exhibited her work nationally as well as in Europe and Japan.
Source: San Francisco Urban Institute San Francisco State University
http://www.sfsu.edu/~urbins/quarterly/issue3/NewEyes.htm

Born in San Francisco, 1926, Kay Sekimachi studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. Her work is in the collections of many museums including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; and the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. Sekimachi and her husband, Bob Stocksdale, have shared numerous exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Japan. She was elected a Fellow of the American Craft Council, 1985, and received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1974. For four years Sekimachi has been exploring the sculptural potential of "skeleton leaves."
Source: The University of Hawaii Art Gallery
http://www.hawaii.edu/artgallery/7ISSE/bios/Sekimachi.html


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