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It’s All AboutYOU Renowned Artist Ray Yoshida Leaves an Artistic Legacy on Kaua‘i
To the art world, Ray Yoshida was one of the most admired contributors to the Chicago Imagism movement and a gifted teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago. His work — mysterious, funny, semiabstract — captured art patrons’ imaginations
while his teachings influenced prominent artists for generations. Chicago may have tried to claim him, but Garden Islanders knew where his roots grew. Ray Yoshida
Before he died in 2009, man from Kaua‘i, to go to the Yoshida came home and Chicago Art Institute,” said made sure aspiring his niece, Jennifer island artists could Sabas, “And he “ Leaving a get the training wanted to make it legacy was they deserved by easier for Hawai‘i’s very important kids.” establishing the Ray to my uncle… Yoshida Kaua‘i Fine and he wanted In his last months Arts Scholarship to make it Fund at the Hawai‘i alive, he attended a easier for Community Kaua‘i Community Hawai‘i kids.” Foundation. “He College building remembered how dedication, where - Jennifer Sabas, difficult it was for he’d gifted some of Ray Yoshida’s niece him, as a young his art pieces. He
was in a wheelchair and “a high school boy walked up to him,” Jennifer remembered. “He told Uncle Ray that he’d be there one day, that he’d get that scholarship.” While Ray didn’t live long enough to see it, the boy made good on his word. “When he met that student,” said Jennifer, “Uncle Ray knew he’d done the right thing.”
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