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Midori Suzuki (educator)
was a Japanese media educator, feminist and media researcher. She was professor of Media Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto from 1994 until her death. Suzuki was known for her work on media literacy, especially several seminal textbooks and the over one hundred workshops, symposia and media watch projects that she facilitated. She also introduced overseas research to Japan, for example through translations of work by Jerry Mander, Catharine MacKinnon, David Buckingham) and the Ontario Teacher's Association. Suzuki was an active member of the World Association of Christian Communication, a co-founder and core member of the Asian Network of Women in Communication, a long-term member of the International Association of Media and Communications Research, and on the International Exchange Committee of the Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication（日本マス・コミュニケーション学会). She also participa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midori Suzuki (artist)
Midori Suzuki is a Japanese artist who has developed her career mostly in Mexico, both as an individual artist and as a member of the Japanese-Mexican artist collective Flor de Maguey. She was trained as an artist in Japan and Spain. In the latter country, she saw a sarape for the first time and became interested in Latin America, going to Mexico for the first time in the early 1980s. She met her husband while in the country and although they first lived in Japan, they then decided to live permanently in Mexico. Suzuki has had numerous exhibitions in Japan, Spain and Mexico, both individually and in group showings. Her work has also been featured in books and magazines. Life Midori Suzuki was born on August 21, 1947, in Kesennuma, Japan. She attended the Musahino Art University in Japan, graduating with a degree in Fine Arts. In 1974, she went to study tapestry art at the Escuela Artística in Granada, Spain for four years. Here she met a young woman from Veracruz wearing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
