Hiro
Visual Artist – The Stone Circle presentation in Studio J Theatre and lecture/performance at Lisner at Noon, Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC
HIRO creates artworks concerning cross-cultural East-West issues. Two major paintings, SADA MEMORIES, “Thoughts on Justice,” and “Justice for All,” are in the exhibition, “A More Perfect Union”: Japanese Americans and the United States Constitution,” through the year 2000 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. HIRO, project director/curator for the recent Asian Pacific American Visual and performing Arts Exhibition, “Circle of Friendship,” published the seminal education guide book with this program. As a multi-media artist she produced and performed “East-West Dialogue,” “Ring of Fire: Pele Pahu” and KIMONO AND BARBED WIRE: Breaking Barriers,” to be performed at the Barrick Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, in conjunction with her painting of the same name which is on an ll-museum national tour with the Smithsonian SITES.