Emiko Morita

In residence: 2017

Through research into seaweed, its role and history as a source of nourishment, Emiko explored its connection to place and as a bridge to cultures. She is interested in traditional/sustainable cultivation and harvesting, and how that might compare or contrast with how we consider farming and gardening, whether in rural or urban contexts, from the global to the local.

Emiko Morita became the Executive Director of Powell Street Festival in Vancouver 25 years after she first worked as an intern for the festival in 1990. In between, she was Marketing Director at Douglas & McIntyre Publishers, Export and Special Sales Manager at Raincoast Books and Marketing Manager at Polestar Press. She co-founded the Access Copyright Foundation and served as a board member there as well as the Association of Book Publishers of BC, Asian Canadian Writers Workshop and Modern Baroque Opera Society.

She is a member of the artist collective Dance Troupe Practice, currently artist-in-residence at Vancouver Parks Board’s Pandora Park Field House. Her recent community engagement project combined seniors and photography in partnership with the Chinese Cultural Centre and Tonari Gumi. 

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