Ana Lisa Hedstrom shows her Origami-folded Shibori installations at the exhibition "Shades of Memory" in Trun from July, 28 to Sept. 8, 2018.

Ana Lisa’s signature shibori textiles are included in the collections of the Cooper Hewitt, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the De Young Museum, the Oakland Museum, and the Racine Museum. She has completed public art commissions for the Emeryville Ca. city hall and the American Embassy in Brunei.

Recent exhibitions include: one person show at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 2017; Materials Hard and Soft, Denton, Texas, 2014; ISS international, Hangzhou, China, 2014; The Box Project: The Cotsen Collection, Fowler Art Museum and Textile Museum; Focus on Fiber 2016; Quilt Visions 2016; Quilt National, 2015 & 17.

Teaching engagements include San Francisco State University and California College of Arts.

She has received two National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) grants and is a fellow of The American Craft Council.

Picture: Patterning Paper Yukata, 2017, indigo on paper, folded and wrapped, each composition 100 x 76 cm
The Yukata kimono shape is the perfect way to display the compositions of the paper squares which are pinned to a wall.

For the exposition "Shades of Memory", taking place from July 28 to September 9, 2018, at the Museum Sursilvan, Trun, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada's installations were inspired by cocoons of silk-worms.

She is an artist, curator, and author and co-author of several books of reference on Shibori. Yoshiko was titled as a “Distinguished Craft Educator-Master of Medium” by the Smithsonian Institution and in 2016 she was honored with an award for her lifetime achievement in the field of textile art from the George Washington University Museum.

She has a B.F.A. in textile from Kyoto and a M.F.A. in conceptual art from USA.
She has translated three books on textile from Japanese to English and co-produced several DVDs on Shibori and Natural Dyeing.
She is President of World Shibori Network, Founder of Slow Fiber Studios, and Adjunct Professor of the Institute of Textile & Clothing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China. She has co-chaired all ten International Shibori Symposia in India, Chile, Australia, U.K., France, Hong Kong, China, including the 11th ISS 2018 now taking place in Japan.
She has been promoting sustainable practices in traditional textile craft, natural dyeing, and organic cotton, and empowering regional communities in Japan, China, India, and the USA.