Hamaguchi Awards
The 13th Annual Yozo Hamaguchi Winners
2008 Printmaking Scholarship Awards
Thirteen years ago Yozo Hamaguchi and his wife, Minami Keiko, generously endowed a fund at CCA (then CCAC) for the purpose of granting annual awards to outstanding students in printmaking. Each an artist of international reputation, the Hamaguchis were born in Japan and lived in France for most of the years since the 1930s, arriving in San Francisco in 1982.
After Mr. Hamaguchi retired in 1993 from the practice of printing his own plates (leaving that to his dealer/publisher), he gave his exquisite American-French Tool etching press to the Printmaking Program. Mr. Hamaguchi was a renowned master of color mezzotint printing, a form of intaglio printing that has been practiced by few since its invention in 1609.
A few years after retiring the Hamaguchis returned to Japan, where Mr. Hamaguchi died December 25, 2000 at the age of 91.
The purpose of Printmaking Scholarship Awards Exhibition is to foster excellence and dedication in the study and practice of printmaking. Students must be enrolled full-time and in good academic standing to be eligible. Aditionally, students must be enrolled in printmaking during one of both semesters of the current academic year.
Students are not, however, required to be Printmaking majors; all majors are eligible provided the virtue of the character of the work submitted in print media contribute substantially to the quality of the whole body of work.
Award recipients are expected to continue their printmaking studies the following semester after earning the award.
The 2008 Hamaguchi Awards exhibition was held August 27 through Septembert 11 in the Isabelle Percy West Gallery on the Oakland campus. Six individual $2,500 cash prizes were made available to the following undergraduates:
- Anna Bunting
- Mick Farrell
- Maria Garcia
- Sam Handleman
- Savannah Lisle
- June Yoon
A three-person committee juried the entries:
- Rupert Garcia (guest juror), an internationally known artist/printmaker
- CCA alumna Mikae Hara (MFA 1986), now an Osaka University of Arts faculty member
- Greg Piatt, Printmaking adjunct professor
The 2008 Hamaguchi graduate scholarship was awarded to Claire Kessler-Bradner.
