As her children were leaving home to go to college, Hisako started taking night school classes in printmaking at Santa Monica City College and UCLA extension.  She became good; some of her prints can be seen here. Her teachers and friends arranged for her to have a show at the Garendo Art Gallery in Studio City. The show opened on June 7, 1980. People who were there say that they had never seen anything like it. Every print was sold! My mom went on to have other shows but certainly this was very memorable.

In late November 2021 (41 years later), her son Mark was contacted by Elisabeth Sadler.  She is the daughter of Masako Shirai, the owner of Garendo Gallery.  She said that the gallery was closing due to Masako's advanced age, and that they were planning to have some celebrations of memorable events, including my mom's exhibit. She somehow found Mark's number and called him because they weren't able to find her (she had moved to assisted living the year before).

We arranged to have the event on December 10, 2021 from 12-2. There is a japanese restaurant attached to the gallery and we had a sushi lunch.

The guest book from 1980 - Announcement - Min Sik and Kim Park came in 1980 and in 2021!

Guest of honor - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - with Min Sik & Kim
Signing books of her prints - 1 - 2 - 3 - signature

Elisabeth Sadler 1 - 2

Restaurant panorama - a case

Restaurant scenes -
table
from right, Sue, Cecelia
back table from left, Stewart, Sue, Kim
from left, Stewart, Jar How, Min Sik, Sue
front table from left, Joseph, Cecelia
a movie

Reverend Gary & Rich - Reverends Gary and Janet
Mark & Jan
Jar How - with Min Sik - with Stewart

Conversation with Henry (Klein), a printmaker
Ron (Pipes)

Leaving the gallery with Anwar


Learning to print!