Lisa Yanagida

Lisa Yanagida works in color, mixing media to suit her current vision. While working as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Rwanda, she decided to capture daily village life from Kabarondo village in the Eastern Province of Rwanda and has pursued art ever since. Using fabric, paint, paper, embroidery, plus anything on hand, she attempts to bring informed experience to her artworks as a means of identity and clarification. Her Japanese-American heritage is also largely influential in the inspiration and style of her works. Using her background in theatrical costuming and anthropology, she works to make something worth staring at, often with a cultural or feminist perspective.

Sometimes she portrays the people who have influenced her daily life, other times, she dips into the Magical; with monsters and supernatural elements lurking.