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Rate My Professor Nishiki Sugawara-Beda

Southern Methodist University

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4.08/20/2025

Fair, constructive, and always motivating.

5.04/30/2025

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About Nishiki

Nishiki Sugawara-Beda is an Associate Professor of Art and the Cox Family Endowed Professor of Painting and Drawing at Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts, where she also serves as Director of Graduate Studies. She holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from Portland State University and an M.F.A. in Painting from Indiana University. As a Japanese-American visual artist, Sugawara-Beda specializes in painting and installation, drawing upon her Japanese heritage to explore themes of culture, language, spirituality rooted in Zen Buddhism, and the interconnectedness of land, body, and cosmos. She experiments with ancient Japanese materials and techniques, including self-produced sumi ink from soot and animal glue, kakejiku landscapes, rice paper, and handwritten fortunes, merging these with abstract and expressive forms of modern Western aesthetics. Her practice emphasizes mindfulness cultivated through traditional activities like chadō, ikebana, and shodō.