Gena Renaud -The Making Of A Wagashi Artist-

Keeping Kurrent

On this episode of Keeping Kurrent, you’ll meet Gena Renaud, an artist and designer. She has an outstanding life experience that began in a rural village in South Korea, moved to Japan and to the United States. She lived in Japan for an extended period to learn the many aspects of Japanese art. Eventually, and she moved to the United States, gained extensive in graphic design with large corporate firms. She eventually learned how to make wagashi sweets that are the current hallmark of artistic design. This is part one of two segments about her.