Welcome to Corinne Okada Design

RECENT NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS:

fusionwear sv Collaborating with The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles and designer Colleen Quen, Takara will be creating digital textiles reflecting on the visual identity of Silicon Valley. May 3 though June 4th, 2010 for the online image collection component of project. Takara's resulting texiles will be exhibited September 16 - September 19th.
Takara's research for both this project and a Creative Work Fund proposal are at this site.

MERIT Scholar, KCI Krause Center for Innovation Los Altos Hills, CA. 2010. Takara was admitted into this grant program for technology training and project implementation in schools.

Picking Strawberries on Gold Mountain is a history animation workshop series which will be conducted in April and May, 2010.

Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young Art workshop. 5:00 to 8:45 pm, March 26, 2010. The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA.

Whimsical Hat Workshop 6:00 -9:00pm, May 6, 2010. Montalvo Arts Center Saratoga, CA.

Claymation! Children 8-12. 9:30-12:30. February 16th -19th, 26th, 2010. Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA.

Claymation! Children 5-8. 1:00-4:00. February 16th -19th, 26th, 2010. Montalvo Arts Center Saratoga, CA.
Krause Center for Innnovation, Los Altos Hills. November 4th, 2009. 5:30-9:30pm. Presentation of animation Thinking Outside The Box. Takara's East San Jose public school animation was a finalist for the 2009 Rambus-KCI Innovation Award. http://www.krauseinnovationcenter.org/rambus/

Pluralism in America, January 2009 - October 2009. Art in Embassies Exhibit, Brussels, Belgium.
http://nato.usmission.gov/Truman%20Hall/Truman_Hall_AIE.asp
PAST EVENTS December 2008 - January 2009:

Corinne Okada Takara Presents:
"Rhythms in Space"
The deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA.
Artist Reception December 13th from 3 to 5pm
(Artist-in-Residence at the de Young Museum December 3rd to January 4th)

Rhythms and Space explored the assembly of recycled materials into airy three dimensional tapestries and wearable art. Corinne Okada Takara blends recycled objects with a whimsical creativity while presenting a visual footprint of diverse Asian cultures at home and in Diaspora. Motifs pulled from the de Young Museum’s textile collection along with visual patterns observed in the museum’s surroundings were interwoven to form these tapestries. Visitors were encouraged to create a tapestry tile of wire, paper, produce netting and recycled materials. These tiles were linked together forming a colorful, evolving wall hanging that invited reflection on the discards of everyday life.

Reception included a mini fashion show of Takara’s dramatic fashion hats as they emerged from the tapestries and were paired with beautiful designer gowns by San Francisco couturier Colleen Quen.

Live music at the reception by composer Scott Perry. Hair and Make-up by Armando and Christopher of Get Your Do Up!

Click on image below to see more images from reception on photographer Lori Paladino's website:

Click on image below to see interview on Bay Sunday Kpix Channel 5: