Akiko Yokoyama
SAZANAMI
Bleached Ash
Price: $2,400 EA
Photo by Chris Pinchbeck
Akiko Yokoyama
Born and raised in Japan, Akiko first came to the United States to attend Williams College in Massachusetts. After graduation she joined the corporate world and spent a decade pursuing a business career. When she made the decision to leave her rather successful career and explore the possibility of becoming a woodworker, her peers reacted saying “Oh well, Akiko is going through her version of mid-life crisis and she will eventually snap out of it”. After taking the Center’s Twelve-week Intensive and Nine-month Comprehensive programs and then spending a year as a Studio Fellow, Akiko is in the fourth year of her “crisis” and hopes never to “snap out of it.”
“My education here at the Center has given me a comprehensive knowledge as well as the confidence to be a maker. The Fellowship Program has given me opportunity to explore my identity as a designer and start building my own design vocabulary. Now that my fellowship term is ending, I’m looking forward to embarking on what I hope will be a life-long journey to define and refine my own style as a designer.”