In honor of my alma mater, the University of Kansas, playing in the NCAA championship game tonight, we are spotlighting Roger Shimomura's print Kabuki Party from 1988.
Shimomura taught in the School of Fine Arts at KU from 1969 to 2004 earning the honor of University Distinguished Professor in 1994. During World War II, Shimomura's family lived for several years in an internment camp in California. As a small child during this period, many of Shimomura's works deal with his memories of that experience as well as issues facing contemporary Asian Americans.
Kabuki Party will be included in the upcoming exhbition, Print Lovers at 30: Celebrating Three Decades of Giving, opening May 3.