Worlds Within, now on display at the Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, is the most comprehensive retrospective of Toshiko Takaezu’s (1922–2011) work to date. Paintings and textiles by Takaezu are displayed alongside decades of her ceramic works, which span early experiments at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, multi-spouted pots, plates, and the closed forms for which she is best known.
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My father is a weaver. He makes tea towels, rugs, curtains, cushion covers, tapestries and tablecloths. As I write this, my feet are touching one of his rugs, which is bordered with a Greek-style meander, a pattern named for a winding river in Asia Minor.