LOCAL ARTISTS

Explore artist profiles of many of the island residents who are engaged in creative expression. Search from the list or take a unguided stroll!

Kaya Yamazaki

Performing Arts: Dance, Theatre

Kazuko Kaya Yamazaki, PhD, founder and president of Japanese Dance LLC and director of Japanese Dance Online, is a Nihon Buyo artist, performer, choreographer, teacher, and anthropologist. Originally from Tokyo, Japan, Kaya began her Nihon Buyo (Classical Japanese Dance) training at age four and received a natori (master's license) at age 18. After coming to the U.S., Kaya studied modern dance techniques and continued performing and teaching Japanese dance while pursuing her graduate degree. As dance critic George Jackson wrote, Kaya is "a versatile and vivid performer." Her repertoire spans from 18th-century Kabuki dances to her creations inspired by classical Japanese style and modern dance. Her distinctions include an Artist Trust Fellowship, a Heritage Arts Apprentice Program Master Artist award, a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship at the UCLA Asia Pacific Performance Exchange residency, and a Ph.D. in the Anthropology of Dance. Kaya has invented the Yamazaki Method™, an innovative Classical Japanese Dance training system, now registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. The Yamazaki Method™ is the world's first Japanese Dance training system recorded in an audio-visual format and fully narrated in English for global audiences, especially students, teachers, and researchers of Japanese performing arts.

Fatima Young

Visual Arts: Painting, Sculpture

How fortunate I am to be able to blend my love of hiking and nature with my skills as a Studio Impressionist. One might say it’s my evolution to becoming a Plein Air Painter. Studying nature at its purest is gold to me. Reducing the complex forms of the outdoors into simple shapes and strokes is letting the viewer fill in the blanks and form the relationship. My focus is to create magical vivid movement in a moment of time. To execute, I use thin water soluble oils to set the mood, my palette knife for texture and bold chroma to bring out light and dark contrast. I recapture the moment in much larger studio paintings by pushing the boundaries. Born of Russian heritage in Europe, I became influenced by the Russian Impres sionists at an early age. My artistic drive grew as I received degrees from F.I.T. and C.W. Post University in New York. After a successful career in publishing my new journey was devoted to painting, with my first official exhibit in 2013 at the Russian Cultural Center in Seattle. Since then I’ve been juried into an international show, had a few solo exhibitions and have had my work displayed in galleries and art venues thoughout the country. Though I love traveling for excit ing landscape opportunities, the Pacific Northwest calls me back. I also enjoy painting still lifes and portraits in my studio on Bainbridge Island. I invite you to experience joy and tranquility through my paintings. Take a look at what’s new on my website, www.FatimaYoungArt.com or follow me on Instagram @ Fatimayoungart.

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