Homei Iseyama Explained

Homei Iseyama
Birth Place:Japan
Death Place:Oakland, California
Nationality:American, born Japan

Homei Iseyama (1890–1975) was an American artist known for slate carvings.

Iseyama was born in Japan in 1890.[1] He attended Waseda University in Tokyo before emigrating to the United States in 1914. He pursued a career as landscape gardener in Oakland, California.[2] During World War II, after the signing of Executive Order 9066, Iseyama was interned in the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah.[3] While he was interned he created objects such as teapots, inkwells, and bowls from slate he found around the relocation camp.[4] [5] Iseyama was also a bonsai master.[2] He died in 1975 in Oakland.[1]

Iseyama's work was included in the traveling exhibition The Art of Gaman.[6] The exhibition toured the United States and Japan from 2006 through 2015, starting at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco and ending at the Houston Holocaust Museum.[7]

His work, Teapot and Cup, was acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as part of the Renwick Gallery's 50th Anniversary Campaign.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Homei Iseyama . Smithsonian American Art Museum . 6 December 2022.
  2. Web site: Rao . Mallika . These Crafts Made By Japanese-American Prisoners Will Renew Your Faith In Human Ingenuity . HuffPost . 6 December 2022 . en . 15 August 2014.
  3. Web site: The Art Of Gaman Arts And Crafts From Japanese American Internment Camps . Antiques and The Arts Weekly . 6 December 2022 . 8 June 2010.
  4. Web site: Secor . Beth . "The Art of Gaman" at the Holocaust Museum Houston . Glasstire . 6 December 2022 . 28 July 2015.
  5. Web site: Hix . Lisa . The Art of Dignity: Making Beauty Amid the Ugliness of WWII Japanese American Camps . Collectors Weekly . 6 December 2022 . en.
  6. Web site: The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946 . Smithsonian American Art Museum . 6 December 2022.
  7. Web site: The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946 (exhibition) . Densho Encyclopedia . 6 December 2022.
  8. Book: Savig . Mary . Atkinson . Nora . Montiel . Anya . This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World . 2022 . Smithsonian American Art Museum . Washington, DC . 9781913875268 . 228–238.

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