Tomie Arai is an Asian American artist and community activist who was born, raised, and is still active in New York City. She has designed both temporary and permanent public works of art for Creative Time, the US General Services Administration Art in Architecture Program, the NYC PerCent for Art Program, the Cambridge Arts Council, the MTA Arts for Transit Program, the New York City Board of Education and the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Discipline:
Visual Art
Tomie Arai
Studios
Eastman (formerly Shop)
Tomie Arai worked in the Eastman (formerly Shop) studio.
Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, a century-old farm building has been reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built to provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for studio use in the mid-1950s with the…