Akio Takamori

Ceramicist
Japanese/American, b. 1950

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Akio Takamori was born in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan in 1950. He attended the Musashino Art College and the University of Tokyo in Japan, Kansas City Art Institute and Alfred University in New York. Takamori moved to Seattle, Washington where he taught ceramics at the University of Washington School of Art until his death in 2017.