Kazumi Wilds is a picture book illustrator / writer who has published picture books in Japan, the U.S. and Singapore for over twenty years. She is also an artists' book artist. Wilds was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1961 and grew up in Kawaguchi city, Sainatam Prefecture next to Tokyo. She has mostly lived in Japan, but spent some years in the U.S. Among other jobs, Wilds ran two art galleries - one with her ex-husband in Taos, NM and another in Iwami-Ginzan, World Heritage Place of Japan, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. Wilds earned her BA in traditional Japanese painting at Joshibi University of Art and Design in Tokyo. After graduation, she became a public school art teacher in Japan. Later, when her family moved to the U.S. and her first son was born, she was inspired to write a story about her son and the wild animals that they encountered in Minnesota, where we were living at that time. With the skills she learned in university, and from her teaching experience, she wrote and illustrated her first published book, “Hajime in the North Woods” (Arcade Publishing, NY, 1994). Wilds later graduated with her MFA in Book Arts from the Graduate College of the University Iowa Center for the Book. Her thesis work was an artist’s book about the Japanese mythology of the Kojiki. She edited the text of 1300-year-old classic myths, letterpress printed the text and her original images on her own handmade paper, dyed with natural dye. She bound 16 editions that are now housed in the special collections of eleven universities and an art museum in the U.S. Her Kojiki artist's book was adapted for publication as “ Kojiki – The Birth of Japan” from Tuttle Publishing in 2019. Wilds currently lives in Japan, teaching art courses at Temple University Japan Campus, in Tokyo. She hones her image-making skills at an Ukiyo-e traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking studio, under a master carver. She devotes herself to making good books every day. Kazumi’s homepage: http://wildskazumi-picturebook.jimdo.com/
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