Chisao Hata | Featured Artist
Photo Credit: provided by artist
“It is our responsibility as artists to offer ways for people to express their creativity and humanity amidst a world of global wars, community divisions and rising human fear. Creative expression, invention and action are the cornerstones for a world of interconnectedness, global well-being, and personal fulfillment.”
Chisao Hata is a performing artist, community organizer, and global citizen artist. Her work shares the Japanese-American story to communities from Hiroshima, Japan to Cuba, and New Mexico to Ontario, Oregon.
As an arts educator, her perspectives are shared as an Oregon Humanities Conversation Leader and Vanport Mosaic Festival Stories in Movement artist.
She originated Gambatte Be Strong, stories of Japanese-American displacement and resilience in Portland and is a partnering artist at the Dance Exchange in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Learn more about Chisao and her work at the links below:
Chisao appears on these Resonance programs: