Kensuke Yamada, 2009 MJD Fellow
 Kensuke Yamada was born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan and is currently working on his MFA at the University of Montana. He received his BA at The Evergreen State College in Washington. Kensuke’s work has been exhibited around the northwest and he will be joining the Bray in January 2010.
“My work is inspired by the universal experience shared among all individuals through facial expression and simple body language, which I convey between the ceramic figures I create. I enjoy touching clay and I have found a way to communicate through ceramics, using gestures, patterns, and textures which create rhythm that brings the figures to life. Through my work I ask people to stop moving and enjoy the moments they are experiencing with their surroundings. I ultimately want people to think about "the moment not the movement of time". It is my hope that strangers can come together to experience a commonality, slowing down enough to share the emotional interaction with my figurative sculpture staged in a communal space.”
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