We open our new season with a program representing the Timeless Artistry of Ikenobo. This program brings us together after the summer recess to enjoy the beauty of Ikebana and reunite with our friends following the program. Mieko Taketa is a Senior Professor of Ikenobo and holds the highest certificate rank (Sokatoku). She began…
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Joan Suzuki began teaching in San Francisco 1953 while assisting her mother Uchida who introduced Sogetsu to the Bay Area. In 1968 she was awarded the Model Teacher Award (Mohan-sho) and in 1973 Sofu Teshigahara, Sogetsu’s Founding Headmaster conferred the highest rank of the school, Riji, on her. His son, Hiroshi and his granddaughter Akane…
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Angelic Nguyen has many years experience as a silk painting artist, floral designer, graphic, and web designer. Her passion for orchids shows up in her paintings and designs, having grown up with orchids and tropical flowers around her hometown near Saigon, Vietnam. She and her family escaped in 1990 and came to the U.S. where…
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