Collaboration with Andy Akiho
In 2023, the Omaha Symphony bestowed Jun and Ree Kaneko with the Dick and Mary Holland Leadership Award, in recognition of their extensive and exceptional contributions to the arts. Wishing…
Collaboration with Ana Citrin
While teaching at Cranbrook Academy of Art as Head of the Ceramics department, Jun Kaneko was pondering a crucial determination that all artists must consider: completion. More specifically, he wondered:…
Collaboration with Tony Hepburn
In 1981, British ceramicist Tony Hepburn was one of the first artists invited to a summer workshop called “Artists in Industry” sponsored by The Ree Schonlau Gallery in Omaha, Nebraska….
EKWC
Founded in 1969 in s’-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, the European Ceramic Work Center provides artist residencies, lectures, and workshops. The center, known as EKWC in its Dutch abbreviation, frequently collaborates with…
Pittsburg Project
In April 2005, three semi trucks rolled away from Jun Kaneko’s Omaha studio loaded with a multitude of wooden tools and paintbrushes, forklifts, industrial clay mixers, and forty-five tons of…
Bullseye Glass
The Bullseye Glass Company, founded by artists in the 1970s in Portland, Oregon, specializes in manufacturing glass for art and architecture. Bullseye is renowned for their exceptional craftsmanship, innovative techniques,…
Bronze Foundries
“My interest is in the creative spark,” says Jun Kaneko. “That’s the idea, the energy, and each idea has the perfect match of material to work with. It can’t always…
Raku Projects
Jun Kaneko first began experimenting with raku as a graduate student with Paul Soldner. However, as he became increasingly focused on large scale ceramics, he found the small kilns used…
Columns
In 2014, nearly twenty-five years after his first artist residency at Mission Clay Products, Jun Kaneko began his third project with the company. Mission Clay is an industrial terracotta pipe…
Fremont Project
In the spring of 1992 Jun Kaneko began what was then perhaps the largest clay project ever undertaken by a single artist. It had been nearly ten years since his…
Omaha Brickworks Project
Jun Kaneko met Ree Schonlau in1981 at a glass workshop in Pilchuck, Washington. Schonlau was then director of a non-profit art program, known today as the Bemis Center for Contemporary…
Shigaraki
Pottery production in Shigaraki, Japan dates to the 13th century, and today it is one of Japan’s most important ceramic centers. Located near both Kyoto and Jun Kaneko’s hometown of…