Lecture: Joryū Hanga Kyōkai, 1956–1965: Japan’s Women Printmakers (Dr. Jeannie Kenmotsu)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXaHNFejzzA On November 19, 2020, Dr. Jeannie Kenmotsu, the Japan Foundation Associate Curator of Japanese Art and Interim Head of Asian Art at the Portland Art Museum, gave this Webinar lecture on Japan’s women printmakers. The 1950s and ’60s in Japan saw printmaking thrive as an art form, propelled by a foreign audience’s enthusiasm for Sōsaku Hanga (Creative Prints). But few women were featured in…