A studio artist who lives in Vaughn, Washington, Richard Notkin’s teapots and ceramic sculptures are in more than 70 public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; the Los Angeles County Museum ofArt; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
His awards include three visual arts fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. In 2008, Notkin was elected a Fellow of the American Craft Council and awarded a Hoi Fellowship by the United States Artists Foundation.
Since 2011, the International Mokuhanga Conference has been held every three years (Kyoto, Tokyo and Honolulu/Holualoa) at venues where the possibilities of traditional Japanese woodblock techniques can be explored among artists and adapted to new modes of representation. The 2017 conference was held at the East-West Center and University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa Art Building before moving over the Big Island of Hawaiʻi where the Donkey Mill Art Center provided space in Holualoa.