Yoshie Tokutake: Shumei’s November/December Featured Artist Art Symposium SAT. Dec. 11th starting at 3pm to 5pm This is free to the public |
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Yoshie Tokutake was born in the Nagano prefecture in Japanese in 1946. After learning how to make bags and Japanese traditional clothing, she started exploring creative activities using old dyed cotton. By using traditional Japanese textiles, Tokutake hopes to preserve this tradition as a reflection of cultural life to hand down to the next generation.
In her words: “Indigo cotton had long been used as working clothes or bedclothes in our village. Absorbing sweat or tears sometimes, and soaked in water again and again, it lived with us for ages. Nowadays however, in the stream of busy and hustling time it has been neglected and actually abandoned in our living. Those clothes once free of human wants seemed to me so beautiful and precious and they are even so dear to me. I feel so sorry and cannot stand that they are going to disappear from our sight. So I take the needle to keep them alive in my own sewing.”
She has received many awards and is now in private exhibitions in and out of the Nagano prefecture. In 2007 her cultural works were displayed in New Zealand’s famous Otago Museum. These exhibits are an example of Tokutake’s great dedication to sharing these traditions with the world. Yoshie Tokutake now lives in Matsumoto City in Japan. Tokutake’s quilts will be on display at Shumei International Institute for the months of November and December.
Please take this rare opportunity to view traditions preserved in fabric here in Crestone. Shumei’s gallery is open daily from 9am to 5pm.
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