This wonderful & major traveling retrospective exhibition has now moved on to the
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where it will stay from March 2nd to May 18th, 2025.
Photo by William E HackerWIld EARTH: jb blunk & toshiko Takaezu
Columbus Museum of Art
On view March 7–August 3, 2025
Wild Earth explores Takaezu and Blunk’s parallel creation of handmade worlds, as expressed through objects ranging in scale from monumental ceramics and woodcarvings to tea bowls and jewelry. Placing their work in dialogue, the exhibition highlights a shared interest in organic forms and patterns of growth, as inspired by garden vegetables, river stones, weathered timber, and the land- and seascapes of the Pacific Rim.
Organized by Daniel Marcus, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Wild Earth brings together around 200 works from private and public collections, including twenty ceramic works gifted by Takaezu to the museum in 2007—the first time this collection has been shown in its entirety.
We are a working art studio carrying on the traditions of Toshiko Takaezu, our teacher, mentor, master and friend in her rural New Jersey home.
To learn more about this great artist please visit
the Toshiko Takaezu Foundation.
“In my life I see no difference between making pots, cooking and growing vegetables. They are all so related. However, there is a need for me to work in clay. It is so gratifying and I get so much joy from it, and it gives me many answers in my life.”
— TOSHIKO TAKAEZU
