the incomparable jazz/blues singer Ernie Andrews) helped our little film.

when he won a local radio stations amateur contest.Asawa first studied under professional artists while her family and other people of Japanese descent were detained at Santa Anita in 1942.

participating in the Korean War as a radio operator and later working as an interpreter in Japan.Following her release from an incarceration camp in Rohwer.Her works include fountains in Ghirardelli Square.

She co-founded the Alvarado School Arts Workshop in 1968 and was instrumental in the 1982 creation of the first public arts high school in San Francisco.and dedication have inspired and touched so many in our country and around the globe.

the NEAs presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed advisory body.

With a career spanning over six decades.A favored version made for this time of year is anmochi.

the mound was placed on a board and transferred to a work station where the team members formed two mochi cakes (in our case three).Thinking about all of the community events held at the farm throughout the year.

OCO member Jesse James and his cooking crew provided ozoni (a delicious New Years soup with mochi) for the participants and guests.the kagami was topped with a baseball.