Sachiko Furuya, originally from Yamanashi Prefecture on the west side of Mount Fuji, is another local potter whose work has been highly collected among WaSabiDou and Charaku customers at Seattle Washington. They are elegant while still allowing the nature of the materials show through. Lately, Artist has been working with Shino, Iron, copper glaze, and couple different grazes creating fine glaze techniques on her tea bowls and dishes.

Background and Training

There, Artist studied pottery with Yukio Matsuura, making primarily tea wares for practitioners of the Omotesenke School of Tea. She also attended the College of Arts at Nihon University (Tokyo,) Suidobata Fine Arts Academy (Tokyo,) and has a Studio Art degree from Clark College in Dubuque, Iowa. She has exhibited her work in galleries and museums in the United States and Japan.  She also owned and operated her own gallery in Edmonds, WA from 1997-2000. Currently, she resides near Honolulu, HI where she continues her study and growth as an artist, and privately teaches ceramics and oil painting to others interested in developing their artistic skills.

Award

Rock ford Art Museum, Rock ford, Illinois,             1993

                        Dubuque Art Museum, Dubuque, Iowa,                    1993-94

                        Yamanashi Prefecture Competition                           1976-90

Exhibitions    

Group Show in Kapolei Public Library                                  2017

Group Show in Hawaii State Library                                     2016-2017

Group Show in Art Exchange Gallery                                   2013

Group Show in Art Gallery                                                    1998-2000

Group Show in Antioch University                                        2004, 2007, 2009

                        Group Show in Shoreline Community College Gallery,              2004              

                        Group Show in Dubuque Museum,                                         1993-94                     

                        Group Show in Agora Gallery, New York, NY,                    1993-99

                        Group show in Monteselert Gallery, New York, NY,            1994-2000

                        Solo Show in Kawara Gallery, Tokyo, JP,                              1980

                        Solo show in Atria Gallery, Yamanashi, JP,                          1975-90

Group Show in Ymanashi Prefecture Community Center,     1975-1980

Teaching

Ceramic and oil painting Teacher, Private Teacher (out of home). Shoreline, WA, July 2000- 2010.

Concentrated teach in traditional Japanese ceramic techniques provide students with space, materials and firing kilns; Teach Japanese art history, tea flower arrangements,  lead students in critiques and help build professional artist skills.

Ceramic and oil painting Teacher, Private Teacher (out of home). Edmonds, WA, July 1997-2000.

Provide instruction in traditional Japanese ceramic techniques and oil painting once a week to an average of six students; provide students with space, materials and firing kilns; lead students in critiques and help build professional artist skills.

Kasugai Long Term Care Facility, Kasugai, Yamanashi, Japan – Art Instructor, 1985 – 1987

Counseled hand build techniques and stress reduction.

Instructor of ceramics, dying and weaving wool.

Kyoritsu Rehabilitation Hospital, Kasugai, Yamanashi, Japan – Art Instructor, 1985 –            1987

Counseled hand build techniques in ceramics for stress reduction.

Counseled therapeutic exercise utilizing ceramics. 

Articles           Stranger                                                                      2010           

Soho NYC                                                                   1997-99

                        Arts Journal                                                                1997-98

Sell                 

Shirokiya Department Store                                       2013

Wasabidou Art Gallery                                              1999 – Present

Agora Gallery                                                             1993-1999