Yuko Okabe

Artist-in-Residence | Fall 2021

Youth Artist Project: “Remember, Reflect, Reimagine: Illustration for Spatial Justice”

 
 
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Yuko Okabe (she/they) is an illustrator, cultural worker and storyteller with a passion for publishing, social justice, community engaged art, and youth empowerment.

Their recent projects include Community is a Garden with Pao Arts Center, Community Artist Rights with Enterprise Community Partners, and Rinse and Repeat Together 冲洗 + 一起重复 with Chinatown Story Cart & ACDC.

As an Artist in Residence at Urbano Project, Yuko will work with Youth Artists in “Remember, Reflect, Reimagine: Illustration for Spatial Justice” to explore illustration as a mindful method to observe, document, and envision healthy, equitable public spaces. Students will create illustrations based on public spaces in Boston, and a collective map of our city’s community.

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