Aki Sogabe

(Japanese (born 1945))

Northwest artist Aki Sogabe creates her artworks using "kiri-e," a traditional Japanese technique in which images are made with intricately cut paper. Sogabe was in middle school when she made her first paper-cut artworks. She studied design and illustration at the Japan Art Institute. In 1978, she moved to the U.S. and introduced kiri-e to the