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| Ken Hatch with Kathleen Schafer |
Last evening Ken and I were invited to join friends, Kathleen & Tom Schafer, at their lovely lakeside Mercer Island home as their family friends, the Horiuchis and the Tsutakawas got together with others to support a non-profit organization, Nikkei Concerns, that supports elder care for Japanese Americans.
Kathleen is a trained artist and their home and life is filled with art, in addition to their wine focus with their winery, àMaurice Cellars. Their collection includes her own art as well as art of several of the Northwest Masters such as Paul Horiuchi, George Tsutakawa, Mark Tobey and Morris Graves. àMaurice has also developed artist series wine labels in tribute to the Chateau Lafite Rothschild artist series labels and two of the wines that were being poured were "The Horiuchi" red blend and "The Tsutakawa" red blend. Both wines were to my palate delightful and were blended by their daughter, Anna Schafer, who is the talented winemaker at àMaurice Cellars.
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| Jerry Tsutakawa & Cathi |
I so enjoyed re-connecting with artist, Gerry Tsutakawa and his wife, Judy. We reminisced about when I was in their home over 20 years ago when I was the chairman of the Northwest Art Project for the Junior League of Seattle to see what was then his father, George's studio, and is now his studio.
Two of Jerry's brothers, Deems Tsutakawa and Marcus Tsutakawa were part of the excellent jazz quartet that entertained the party guests. Deems was on the piano and Marcus was on the bass while friend, Tim Horiuchi was on the bongo drums and brother-in-law, Gordon Uchima on the saxophone.
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| Marcus Tsutakawa |
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| Deems Tsutakawa |
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