Yukako Satone - FROM ZEN TO RECOVERY

Yukako Satone, Saori weaver & founder, Loop of the Loom

FROM ZEN TO RECOVERY

YUKAKO SATONE studied visual design and worked as a graphic designer in
Japan. At the age of 25, she moved to New York to work as an assistant art director for an advertising agency. After devoting her time to raising her daughter, she encountered Misao Jo in Japan, the founder of SAORI. She opened a SAORI weaving studio in 2005 called Loop of the Loom. She received grants from Peace Stone Foundation as a teaching artist in Senegal and The Laura Lenzner Adasko Artist in Residence programme at Bank Street School for Children in 2011. One of Loop of the Loom’s missions, the “Weaving-in-Action” project is to introduce community weaving and to build an inclusive community for people with or without disabilities for self-discovery and independence using the SAORI method. There have been many SAORI workshops to create woven sculptures with children using recycled materials as well as hands-on weaving instruction. These workshops have not only happened in the studio but also at the following events as public art with many organizations.

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