Miye Matsukata, sometimes written as Miye Matsukata, was a Japanese-born American jewelry designer based in Boston, Massachusetts.
16 Facts About Miye Matsukata
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Miye Matsukata was one of the founders of Atelier Janiye and later became the sole owner.
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Miye Matsukata's parents had both lived in the United States before her birth.
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Miye Matsukata's mother, Miyo Arai, was born in New York into a family with silk importing business, owned by her father, Arai Ryoichiro.
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Miye Matsukata spent her youth in Tokyo, Japan, but was under strong influence by Western culture and education.
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Four of the children including Miye Matsukata, remained in United States after.
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Miye Matsukata designed jewelry in Boston, and established Atelier Janiye in the 1949, co-owned with Naomi Katz Harris and Janice Whipple Williams after graduating.
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In 1958, the group association disbanded and Miye Matsukata took sole ownership of Atelier Janiye.
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Miye Matsukata was awarded another travel grant to study goldsmithing techniques in the Middle East and in Greece in 1966.
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Miye Matsukata was involved in the Society of North American Goldsmiths.
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Miye Matsukata taught several classes at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine in 1976.
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Miye Matsukata's works was characterized by a mix of media, using beads, stones, coins, glass, enamel, fabric, and other materials in addition to unconventional uses of gold or silver.
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Miye Matsukata's work is included in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Miye Matsukata faced an unexpected death in 1981 from meningitis at the age of 59.
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Miye Matsukata's papers, including sketchbooks, journals, business records, correspondence, and photographs, are in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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In 2011 a show featuring and inspired by her work, "Atelier Janiye: And the Legacy of Master Jeweler Miye Matsukata", was exhibited at the Fuller Craft Museum.