Seattle Japanese Garden by Stephen Okawa

Join us for the return of Free First Thursday at the Seattle Japanese Garden! A new exhibit Garden Images by Stephen Okawa will be on display in the Tateuchi Community Room.

Okawa’s Garden Images series, inspired by Okawa’s love of nature, Japanese art and gardens, was created in 2020 in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Garden. Garden Images includes winter silhouettes of the Imperial Birch, a tree donated and planted by the Crown Princess of Japan for the opening of the Seattle Japanese Garden. The series is printed on handmade paper from Nepal and mounted as triptychs on birch boxes.

Steve Okawa is a Seattle based artist with a background in graphic design, photography, sculpture and many other mediums including classic Japanese art such as sumi-e painting. Okawa creates contemporary expressions of aesthetic inspired and influenced by classic Japanese art and their reverence for nature.

Design Concern, a design product store Okawa opened in 1980, was located at the City Center in downtown Seattle.

Admission to the garden is FREE all day for Free First Thursday. Meet the artist from 4-6:45pm in the Tateuchi Community Room.

The exhibit will be on display in the Tateuchi Community Room through the end of June.

*Final entry to the garden is 45 minutes before closing.