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RECENT NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS:

Visual Rhythms/Community Patterns Workshop The 32 Annual Steinbeck Festival: What Can a Voice Change? 2-5pm, May 5th, 2012. Alisal Center for the Fine Arts, Salinas, CA.

Wrap It Up!/ Youth Contribution to Fence Wrap in San Jose Japantown The Donor Circle for the Arts 2012 Performance Showcase/Silicon Valley Community Foundation 6pm, April 3, 2012. Lohman Theater, Foothill College, Los Altos, CA.

You Are Here Street Banner Installation Krause Center for Innovation Art Gallery, Los Altos, CA. Sept 28th - October 27th, 2011.

Slot Shelters Project A large scale student collaborative web based art project will take place mostly in Spring of 2012 and extend (with grant funding)into 2013.

You Are Here: Street Banner Project Takara collaborated with Alum Rock, San Jose elementary school students in creating street banners reflecting on community identity. This project was conducted in May/June of 2011. The 17 resulting banners were hung along Alum Rock Avenue in July 18th, 2011.

Microsoft National Innovative Education Forum Takara represented California in the Microsoft National Innovative Education Forum in Seattle on 27th -July 29th, 2011. 102 educators from acoss the United States were selected to attend and showcase innovative technology integrated student projects.

First Place, KCI Rambus Innovation Award Winner 2010 This honor was awarded to Takara for Picking Strawberries on Gold Mountain , a history animation workshop series conducted at two Santa Clara County schools in April and May, 2010.

Target Arts Grant 2010 Takara will be conducting a recycled art workshop series at Horace Mann Elementary in San Jose in Spring 2011 with this grant.

fusionwear sv Collaborating with The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, designers Colleen Quen and Rick Lee, Takara created digital textiles reflecting on the visual identity of Silicon Valley. The public online image collection component of project was from May 3 though June 4th, 2010. Resulting installation, TECHStyle SoftWEAR, exhibited September 27 through October 31st, 2010. Project supported with an Applied Materials Excellence in the Arts Grant, Creative Connections James Irvine Foundation Grant and an NEA Access to Excellence Grant through the Zero1 Art & Technology Network.
Click here to visit Takara's research site for this project.

Photo by Anthony Chen

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

Free Teen Digital Textile Workshop 10:30am - 4:00pm, October 30th, 2010. San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles San Jose, CA.

Winner of Best Elementary Fine Art, California Media Festival 2010 Thinking Outside The Box Animation created by Cureton Elementary Fourth Grade class of Ms. Arlene Illa in workshop series designed by Takara. Alum Rock, San Jose, CA.

Finalist for KCI Rambus Innovation Award 2009. 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.

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: