Yumiko Kuga is a Japanese potter living in New York City whose unique sensibility is defined by elegance, warmth, and graceful lines.  Her pots have organic shapes that are subtlety textured in a wide range of earthen tones.  They evoke images of the jubilant serenity of nature and are a celebration of life.

-Susan Coates, PhD, Columbia University

Korogari

Vase by Yumiko KUGA

Yoshit Sasayama was born in Iga, Japan in 1953. He started learning Pottery in 1972 when he was businessman. He quit his job and became full time potter in 1986. He had his first solo exhibition in 1993. He has been having solo and group exhibitions since.

Akutsu Masato was born in 1976 and grew up in Mashiko Town, Tochigi, Japan which is famous for Mashiko Pottery. He finished the training couse at the Tochigi Prefectural Ceramics Training Center in 1999 and works at the Akutsu Ceramics Studio since 2000. He received Judge’s Special Award in Mashiko 4th Annual Pottery Convention.

Gaku Kuroda was born in Suwa, Nagano, Japan in 1948. He studied Pottery in Kyoto when he was 25 years old and moved to Hagi and opened his studio in 1977, when he was 29.