Mano Ya creates handmade custom furniture and objects informed by legacies of Mexican and Japanese design, woodworking techniques, and art histories.
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Mano Ya creates custom furniture and objects informed by legacies of Mexican and Japanese design, woodworking techniques, and art histories.
studio@mano-ya.com
+1 (323) 481-8711
About
Martha’s Tarima
Simultaneously a stage, dance platform, and percussion instrument, Martha’s Tarima embodies all aspects of performance. The tarima is made of solid Maple, one of the most commontonewoods for drum building, giving it a warm clear tone while maintaining a loud and bright sound it also features a hand rubbed color finish and hand cut dovetail joinery. Martha Gonzalez is a singer, songwriter and percussionist for the Grammy Award winning East Los Angeles band, Quetzal. In 2012, Quetzal and fellow artist/activist
Nobuko Miyamoto collaborated to produce FandangObon, an annual festival in Los Angeles that brings together the Japanese, Mexican and African-American communities
to share participatory music and dance traditions in order to celebrate Mother Earth. Mano Ya was extremely pleased and humbled to create a special tarima for Martha and Quetzal on the occasion of FandangObon 2017, held in the Isamu Noguchi Plaza at the
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center.
