Sharon Nakazato

For 6 of the 8 years that prize-winning artist Sharon Nakazato lived in Japan, she studied Asian Brush Calligraphy intensively with celebrated contemporary master Shinzan Kamijo. She holds a license to teach from the Japan Calligraphic Arts Association of Tokyo.  While continuing on her Path of the Asian Brush, in recent years Nakazato has revisited her western art background and explored an expansive range of mixed media, some incorporating Asian calligraphy and all drawing on years of experience with Eastern brush, ink, line, and space.

An ongoing student of Japanese culture, she has lectured and published in both Japanese and English and co-founded and served for 10 years as Director of the Yasuragi Japan Arts Center. Until recently she ran the arts program at Longview School, where she has taught a variety of courses related to art history, history, writing, and Japanese language and culture. She monitors the Life Drawing sessions at Arts on the Lake in addition to managing FroGS Plein Air events along with the Annual FroGS Juried Art Competition. Nakazato continues to combine an ever-widening diversity of media in a distinctly personal expression and is now exhibiting by invitation through the Tri-County area. Her work can be found in various private collections. She is currently offering workshops in Creativity through Art.

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