Foumiko Kometani is Japanese author, artist, and painter who moved to the United States in 1960. It was then that she worked with an abstract painter and earned a Fellowship at MacDowell, where she met her husband, Josh Greenfeld. She shifted her artistic focus to writing when her developmentally-disabled son became difficult to manage around supplies in her studio. Kometani regularly participates in anti-war and anti-nuclear protests and is the recipient of the Murasaki Shikibu Prize, Shinchoo shinjinshoo, Bungakkai shinjinshoo, and Akutagawashoo, a very prestigious Japanese literary honor.
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
Foumiko Kometani
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
Region: CALIFORNIA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1960, 1961
Studios
Cheney
Foumiko Kometani worked in the Cheney studio.
Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…