Gabriel Bizen Akagawa press
Event Posters
Event Postcards
A foodie’s tour of ArtPrize: Eat your way through coffeehouses, restaurants featuring art, by Sue Dow, The Grand Rapids Press, Grand Rapids, MI, September 22, 2010.
http://www.mlive.com/artprize/index.ssf/2010/09/a_foodies_tour_of_artprize_eat_your_way_through_coffeehouses_restaurants_featuring_art.html
SAIC Iron Pouring Community, by Roxanne Samer, Chicago Art Magazine, June 7, 2010.
http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2010/06/saic-iron-pouring-community/
Morton Arboretum Workshop and Bronze Pour
Steel sculptures mimic nature’s roots, by Sandy Illian Bosch, Pioneer Press PioneerLocal.com, Member of Sun-Times Media, April 22, 2010.
http://www.pioneerlocal.com/westernsprings/entertainment/2164776,doings-disteelroots-042210-s1.article
Butler Street Foundry Collaboration
Forging Forward: Artist pours heart, hope into reviving 119-year-old family foundry, Story by Rick Kogan and Photos by Charles Osgood, Chicago Tribune, Chicago, IL, February 7, 2010.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/style/ct-sun-0207-foundry-20100205,0,34495.story
The re-invention of Butler Street Foundry:iron workers and art students share a vision, Story and Photos by Layton Ehmke, Medill Reports, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, December 2, 2009.
http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=150865
Student Iron Pour
the Year of Iron: Forging a community, Story and Photos by Jen Mosier, F Newsmagazine, Chicago, IL, October 26, 2009.
http://fnewsmagazine.com/wp/2009/10/the-year-of-iron/
Chicago Aritsts Month
October, 2008
View Chicago Artists Month Publication
Columbia College Faketure article
Waste displaced, later embraced, by Steven Schnarr, The Columbia Chronicle, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, October 13, 2008.
http://columbiachronicle.com/waste-displaced-later-embraced/
Chicago Artists Resource
“My Art, My Family,” by Gabriel Akagawa, Chicago Artists Resource Artist Story, Chicago, IL, September, 2008.
http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/visual-arts/node/16755
NIU Art Museum Unpacked/Offset
Four press articles and one video interview.
Unpacked/Offset Exhibition Press 2008
Teaching/Industry Partnership
Internship leads to partnership in foundry industry, by Sonja Schneider, Journal News, Chicago IL, February 28, 2007.
Artist-in-Residence
Demonstrating global impact, by Poria Priegert, Kelowna Daily Courier, Kelowna, BC, June 26, 2006.
Gallery press release
Street Stories: Group Exhibition, Walsh Gallery, 2005.
Curatorial
Visiting exhibition explores nature and artifice, by Charles Campbell, The Mac Weekly, St. Paul, MN, November 11, 2005.
In-School Artist-in-Residence
Young artists work in color, community, by Kathy Routliffe, Evanston Review, Evanston, IL, December 4, 2003.