by Charissa | Oct 5, 2017 | blog
I felt very grateful to be able to spend a day with Morgami Jin and his family, visiting a bamboo factory, splitting bamboo, and having dinner. It was such a great surprise to find I also was going to get to spend a day with him weaving a basket. His work had already...
by Charissa | Oct 3, 2017 | blog, Uncategorized
After spending a morning in a bamboo factory with Morgami Jin, I had the good fortune of receiving a private bamboo splitting lesson from he and his wife. Morgami-san is well known for how finely he can split bamboo and his wife Ayako-san, who works with him,...
by Charissa | Sep 14, 2017 | blog
I left Portland August 4th, very excited by the possibility of meeting artists who work with the same material I do, of visiting bamboo groves, and seeing bamboo used in an everyday setting. Although it wasn’t entirely clear in my mind at the time, looking back, what...
by Charissa | Sep 12, 2017 | blog
Yesterday I was in the midst of preparing to teach at the National Basketry Conference and hosting my sister and her two adorable kids when I got an email requesting that I let the film crew from “Who Wants To Come To Japan?” know who I wanted to meet and...
by Charissa | Sep 11, 2017 | blog
Soon I will be taking off on a trip I’ve been wishing to take since I first found bamboo, in 1999. A while back I contacted a company who produces a television show called “Who wants to come to Japan?”. After some exciting email exchanges, a film...