Fathers and Sons: Wakao Toshisada and Wakao Kei

Zoom Gallery Talk Tradition and Innovation: In Conversation with Wakao Toshisada and Wakao Kei Recorded October 8, 2020 “Fathers and Sons” explores the unique nature of lineage and received tradition as illustrated through two sets of father-son ceramic artists: Suzuki Osamu and his son, Tetsu, and Wakao Toshisada and his son, Kei. To accompany the exhibition, we are hosting the second of our artist conversations, with Wakao Toshisada and Wakao Kei, on Thursday, October 8th at 5 pm. Wakao Toshisada is an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Gifu prefecture whose masterful nezumi Shino (mouse-grey) functional work is decorated in the aesthetic of the Rinpa tradition. His son, Kei, however, experiments with bolder sculptural forms inspired by Nature that verge on the abstract and are covered in a range of craquelure celadon glazes. PANELISTS: LOUISE CORT, Curator Emerita for Ceramics at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC QUITMA