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JH ARTIST 

JUNKO YAMADA

TWO SHOWS THIS JUNE

June 21 to July 12, 2012, Tuesday to Sunday 11-6PM

... Reception: Saturday, June 23, 3-5PM"2012 

National Juried Exhibition" 

at First Street Gallery
526 West 26th Street, NY, Second floor, 

between 10th and 11th Avenue

June 28 to July 22, 2012, Thursday and Friday:4-7PM, Saturday and Sunday 11-7PM or by appointment

Reception: Thursday, June 28, 6-9PM                                "Mice to Monsters", children book Illustration show at 

440 Gallery

440 Six Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Junko was born in Kyoto, Japan. Growing up in the beach resort area of Miyazu , a beautiful area of Japan located on the Pacific coast about two hours north of Kyoto, she was influenced in my art by the spectacular scenery.Her academic training includes the Art Institute of Boston (1986-1988) and the Art Institute of Alexandria, Virginia (1992-2000).  In 2010, Junko was selected as "Official Artist" for 

The National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC!

JH FILMMAKER

KIM CUMMINGS (“In Montauk”)  

NYC PREMIERE Tribeca Cinema .details here

June 21st  

Director Kim Cummings
(Photo by Ken Nanus)

Kim Cummings wrote 
and directed the award-winning short 
“Weeki Wachee Girls.” 
It screened in 70
 festivals worldwide, earning three “Best of” 
awards and a nomination for best short at 
Taos and is distributed by Buskfilms.com. 
Other short films include “Flower Of A Girl” 
and Kate Greer’s 
“That’s What She Told Me.”  
Cummings was a finalist for the Women 
In Film Foundation Post Production 
grant in 2010. 
 She received a finishing fund grant from 
the Long Island Film/TV Foundation and 
two separate grants from Queens Council 
on the Arts for “In Montauk,” 
which is her first feature.

JH COMPOSER

VIVIAN FUNG

June 22nd world premiere of Birdsong with Kristin Lee, violin, and Conor Hanick, piano, for the  Delaware Chamber Music Festival.  

BIRDSONG is scheduled for 

Repeat performances in September

at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and in New York City.  

Vivian Fung has distinguished herself as a composer with a unique and powerful compositional voice.  Since earning her doctorate from The Juilliard School in 2002, Fung has forged her own approach, often merging Western forms with non-Western influences such as Balinese and Javanese gamelan and folk songs from the minority regions of China.  The New York Times has pronounced her work “evocative,” and the Chicago Tribune described her recent Yunnan Folk Songs as conveying “a winning rawness that went beyond exoticism.”