Dec 9 + 10 Renegade Crafts Fair --- booth #53

Hello!  I will be at Renegade Craft Fair with my ceramic works this weekend. If you are in Brooklyn, please stop by!

Dec 9+10 11am-6pm
Renegade Craft Fair Booth #53
Industry City Factory Floor
274 36th St, Brooklyn

Also if you are not in NY area I just opened the web store, too.
http://www.ayakakeda.com/store/

Getting cold out, stay warm and have a nice winter day!

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Microchan goes to Midnight Jungle!

CBADIt's Jungle time! Microchan Bus is going to the fancy midnight jungle party this winter. Beautiful hand made work by Obitsu factory in Tokyo. Thank you for the great producer Tomenosuke Shoten.This is a limited edition of 30 as the last three, you can purchase this at →http://www.tomenosuke.com/AYA_YA/ Microbus: To The Midnight Jungle Sale on November 27th 9:00pm JST

 

Let's go to the Yeti Mountain!

919a26c056a9a9c8f78c_460x460IMG_2267IMG_2301_四角Micro-chan and her friends went to the snowy mountain to meet her Yeti friend to spend their holidays together :) I heard they are having a good time. Now after the neon pink Micro bus, now new color electric blue "Let's Go To The Yeti Mountain" is on sale!!!!  Small edition on 30 from Tomenosuke store. ----->Here

And here is a big news! If you get the first Three microbus editions (neon pink, electric blue, and Glow in the dark) you can win my original painting which is featured on the header cards!!!

face=web3Days till the New Years!  Hope you will have a great New Year's eve and Happy 2015!!!

MOCCA Art Festival FUN! Thank You!

Thank you for coming by my table last weekend, it was great to see many familiar faces and also meeting some amazing new people/artists. This was my first MOCCA, I have been doing other festivals past years but I truly think MOCCA is very special!  I think Society of Illustrators did a great job putting together, thank you SI and volunteer team!I didn't have much time walking around to take some photos but here are some that I have and some of my studiomates photos!

photo 9Charlie Brown!!! Mascot of MOCCA, he will be part of the Macy's easter parade this year. I was happy that our studio's booth was right below!!! 1981817_10152014595893483_1499693094_n(Photo by Diana Di Nazzo)   Here is my booth! Our studio had 4 tables this year. photo 2Close ups of my booth. Lots of small books and sculptures this year not to forget Zombi cat Cookies!!!

Here are our whole 4 table run down :-)  (All the photos are by Joel Alter) 10153802_10154018488490088_552466252_n 10011467_10154018476090088_1785381394_n 1503380_10154018466955088_1423874066_n 1970910_10154018453265088_894285162_n 1375963_10154014019140088_1580757919_nEveryone had super successful MOCCA!!!

Here are some visitors photos! I wish I took more :-( photo 7Cutest visitors were those 4 ladies!!! photo 10FIT Master program had it's own table this year!  (I wish I took photos of that but here is a photo of a proud students who were selling out on their books! Good job :-))10012914_10152304750558771_5830461211914411130_oMet One of my favorite artist Ciou finally after we were in a same show 10 years ago! We exchanged the books like soccer player exchange their uniform!!! ;-)

10245317_10151967218860178_328643524_nThank YOUUUUUU for the great experience! It was a happy weekend for me.

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MOCCA FESTIVAL this weekend!

Hello!This weekend is MOCCA Art Festival in NYC. I have a table selling new books, prints, surprise sculpture boxes, and cat&dog cookies! Please come and visit! 10173554_10151957194020178_1347604187_nYou can see the direction and more info about the festival here---> click

Here is some sneak preview! photo 3 (2)1958232_10151949263820178_788786612_ncover1000650_10151959049650178_281297358_nphoto 1 (5)10155464_10151963768835178_1931492428_nDouble thank you for Kimiko and Fumiha for helping me bake!!!!!

Collaborating with Dynomighty Mighty Wallet!

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This was such a fun collaboration with Dynomighty. we came up with two designs, one is from my silkscreen series from long time ago ( blue tree image inside is a pink tree) also from a recent painting series (girl with flower dress inside is a flower pattern.) I'm really interested in finding out which sells better the recent or past creation?

here is their press release about these wallets! there are info about where to get also. looking for a cool Christmas presents? Go DYNOMIGHTY!!!!

Dynomighty, makers of Mighty Wallet the original Tyvek® wallet, have partnered with the amazingly radiant kawaii store JapanLA in Los Angeles for an exclusive artist series and pop-up shop. Working with world renowned brands tokidoki, TKDK, and top tier artists 64 Colors, Aya Kakeda, TADO, Luke Chueh, and Camilla d'Errico, they created a limited edition series of wallets that showcase the characteristics surrounding JapanLA. Officially opening November 29th, the pop-up shop within JapanLA is a unique chance for the west coast to get a first hand look at some amazing art, and pick up an exclusive wallet, just in time for the holidays! If you can't make it to JapanLA between November 29th, and December 31st you can go to JapanLAclothing.com, the Dynomighty Holiday Shop in Union Square NYC, or Dynomighty.com starting December 6th to pick out your favorite. This exclusive artist series is for a limited time, and will be sold exclusively through JapanLA and Dynomighty throughout the month of December! Don't wait, stop by JapanLA or visit us in Union Square to get yours!