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Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada (born August 2, 1944 in Kobe, Japan) is textile artist, exhibition curator and researcher. She holds a BFA in Textile Art from Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan and a MFA in Painting from University of Colorado, Boulder, and is president of the World Shibori Network and founder of Slow Fiber Studios. She gives and organizes lectures, workshops and conferences throughout the whole world to help conserve historical techniques of textile processing and further new technology in the vast universe of textile art and crafts and is considered to be one of the most important teachers of textiles. 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title=Textile Arts Council, Newsletter Volume XXX, Nr 1, January 2015, p. 4 ) 〕 == Life == Yoshiko I. Wada is the granddaughter of a family of kimono makers in Tokyo. Her grandmother on the paternal side learned European dressmaking in Europe and nurtured her love and knowledge of European art. As a child she lived together with her two sisters in Kobe and Tokyo, Japan. 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title=Discover Nikkei, Stories, Nikkei Heritage, Yoshiko Wada, by Patricia Wakida, Nov. 30, 2010 ) 〕 She finished Hyogo Kenritsu Kobe High School in 1963. At Kyoto City University of Fine Arts she received her BFA in 1967 and then moved to the US where she finished her formal education with a MFA in Painting from University of Colorado, Boulder, USA in 1971. In postgraduate studies in Japan of ''ikat'' weaving and indigo dyeing with T. Odani, Kyoto, in 1972 and traditional Japanese silk embroidery at Daishiki Studio, Tokyo, in 1980, she deepened her knowledge of traditional Japanese crafts. 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title=Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, brief curriculum vitae, 2011 ) 〕 In 1983/84 she lived in Ahmedabad/India on an Education & Cultural Fellowship. 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title=Slow FIber Studios - Tour Archive - India 2011 ) 〕 Presently she lives with her husband Hercules Morphopoulos in their home in Berkeley, California. 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title=Addresses for California zip code 94708 p. 67 ) 〕 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title=USA.com Address ) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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