SHIGERU MIYAMOTO
Lecturer

Shigeru Miyamoto received his M.A. from San Jose State University in Ceramics/Sculpture.  He lived and traveled extensively throughout the Mid-East, Asia and Southeast Asia.  He taught in California, Australia and Indonesia before moving to Kauai where he built a ceramic studio, worked on commissions and produced high-fire production work, raku and pit fire sculptures.  In 1990, he joined the faculty of the Ceramic Department, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.  Shigeru has given workshops on wheel throwing, pit firing and ceramic sculpture for schools and community art centers around the Islands, on the mainland, and internationally.  He participated as an invited artist in international ceramic symposiums in Lithuania and Latvia. He is active in the Hawai‘i Craftsmen organization and in organizing the annual Raku Ho’olaule’a.  Shigeru completed three State Foundation on Culture and the Arts commissions, two of which are in conjunction with the Department of Education, Artist in the Schools program. His art expresses the social, political, and cultural climates of the Pacific Rim.