Experience Ikebana through the eyes of an expert designer

Celebrate the beauty and serenity of the Asian art of Ikebana as we welcome Motoko Kakukei Shimizu to the Village Center on Friday, May 29, at 2:30 p.m., for a demonstration of this floral art form. Shimizu is a First Degree Sogetsu Ikebana instructor with more than 30 years of experience teaching, exhibiting, and demonstrating Ikebana in Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland, and Japan.

Currently, she is the Vice President of the Ikebana International Washington, D.C. Chapter #1 and Youth Education and Outreach Program Chair. Her works have been presented at the Embassy of Japan, Washington National Cathedral, Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. National Arboretum, Hillwood Estate Museum and Gardens, the Torpedo Factory Art Center, and the National Cherry Blossom Festival, as well as in educational programs at local colleges, community centers and high schools. She also teaches Ikebana at the Embassy of Japan.

Her past collaborations that blend Ikebana with other art forms include a light show, music concerts, participatory youth programs, and tea ceremony events. Her work reflects a sense of form and space shaped by her master’s-level architectural studies. She was an awardee of a Sogetsu Ikebana School Grandmaster, Akane Teshigawara’s Prize for the school’s 100th Anniversary.

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