Awakening features the haunting, surreal work of Ryo Toyonaga, a New York City-based contemporary artist, in his first major museum exhibition. Organized by Lawrence Fong, former curator of American and Pacific Northwest art at the JSMA, the exhibition features ceramics and mixed-media sculpture, drawing, and painting. Toyonaga’s imagery creates a surprising and original world that fuses craft, technology, and nature into mysterious hybrid forms. The exhibition will serve as inspiration for our next NewArt Northwest Kids exhibition in 2015.