Wendy Maruyama
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American educator and furniture designer
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- Masters Furniture Design Rochester Institute of Technology
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wendy Maruyama is an artist, furniture maker, and educator from California. She was born in La Junta, Colorado. Maruyama was influential in the early period of post-modern artistic furniture. She challenges the masculine environments within the field of woodworking. Her work uses humor, social commentary, sculptural forms, and color to challenge the accepted notions of furniture. Conceptually her work deals with social practices such as her Japanese-American heritage, feminism, and wildlife endangerment in Africa. Maruyama served as the head of the Furniture Design department at San Diego State University for 25 years.
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