2024 BCA Virtual Art Exhibit

Welcome to our BCA Virtual Art Exhibit! This marks the 4th year of sharing artwork from our Sangha community and friends. Whether you are a first time visitor or a gallery regular, we are happy that you have joined us today. The exhibit continues to grow with participants and entries. Your presence, participation, and words allows for the growth and continuation of the BCA Virtual Art Exhibit. Please encourage others to visit and artists to join in. The exhibit will continue to grow and spread like all of Amida's teachings.

The committee is now referred to as BCArt. A new extension of our exhibit has been an In-Person showing during the live BCA National Council meetings this past year. BCArt plans to continue In-Person displays at live BCA NCM gatherings. Artists from the hosting districts will be invited to display their works for the leaders and representatives to see. Please look for this added dimension of our efforts to showcase the works of our talented Sangha to all. Thank you very much.

Koichi Mizushima

Rev. Dennis Fujimoto

Sangha Artists...

John Esse - West LA

See "Buddhist Stupa" on my playlist on my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@namoamidabuts

Ben Wong - Twin Cities

Crane taking flight

Ben Wong - Twin Cities

Egret on a snowy day.

Ben Wong - Twin Cities

Teishu - Tea host

William Warrior - Palo Alto

Ready For Obon Odori: Composite images of my cat in her kimono against a background of Palo Alto Buddhist Temple grounds on an August evening in 2017

Tessa Asato - White River Buddhist Temple

White River Buddhist Temple Sangha members Bon Dancing away!

Yukari Williams and Roger Coppock - San Diego

Yukari Williams translated Roger Coppock's Climate Protest T-shirt Design Into Japanese. It displays exponentially increasing global mean near surface temperatures from NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, "GISTEMP" data.
The design has versions in many languages. However, T-shirt printers say that the Japanese language design stands out somehow.

William Warrior - Palo Alto

“August Haiku” inspired by a dragonfly in our temple garden. graihwing@gmail.com

Gretchen V.Hansen - White River

Obon Dancers at White River Buddhist Temple.

Gretchen V.Hansen - White River

We Hang The Bodhi Leaf Lights to Dispel the Darkness.

Gretchen V.Hansen - White River

A Dharma School Visitor Spins the Koma.

Ann Nakahira - OCBC

Shoushiki Shoukou "Blue Color Blue Light" - Beginning of the phrase that describes the lotus blossoms found in the Pure Land of Amida Buddha written in the Amida Sutra.

Ian Hall - Oregon

My name is Ian Hall, and I have had the hobby of nature and animal photography for as long as I can remember. It started with me snapping pictures on my dad’s dslr when I was seven years old, but I only really got invested in the hobby about a year ago when my grandpa gave me his canon rebel T3i. Now that I’ve learned how to use all of its features, I bring it on all my vacations and nature walks.

Ian Hall - Oregon

Nell Diana Zeitlin - Idaho/Oregon

I made a girl meditating. The parents are talking. It is at a park that is next to mountains. Nearby is a splash pad. I love to draw and color. I am excited to show others my artwork!

Alley Smith Kwan Gong - Vermont

Stone on Stone

Alley Smith Kwan Gong - Vermont

Leaf and Drops. chaplainalley@gmail.com

Macrina Cowan - Orange County

Manifesting Infinite Light

Macrina Cowan - Orange County

My cat, Issa, as I am reciting the Nembutsu

Mai Thi La - Oregon

Inspired by the idea that although we are unique, we are also inherently similar in many ways.

Maho Suzuki Garner - Oregon

At our temple, we take turns in preparing Obuppan. I remember this moment when a young mother brought her two children, showing them how to offer the rice to Amida Buddha.

Maho Suzuki Garner - Oregon

A moment in Obon Dancing as the sun is starting to set, turning everything into pale orange and pink.

Rinku Kumar Barua - World Buddhist Association in Bangladesh (WBA)

Jeanie Kashima - San Diego

This is one of 12 collages that I created under the title Oishi Nursery, One Family’s Legacy. The twelve collages shows various images of my grandfather’s wholesale carnation nursery in Richmond, California. By doing the twelve collages, my memories of the nursery will be preserved in this art form, for my grandfather’s nursery brought much happiness to myself and my family.

Jeanie Kashima - San Diego

"This is one of twelve collages that I recently completed under the title Oishi Nursery, One Family’s Legacy. This collage shows my grandfather, Seizo Oishi who started the Oishi Nursery.
The nursery provided my family and myself with a lifetime of good memories and gratitude."

2024 BCA Virtual Art Exhibit

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