Fuku Ito (伊藤福)

　　Fuku Ito is a contemporary visual artist who was born and raised in Sapporo, Japan, and currently residing in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to peruse a focus in ceramics and photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts. As a child, she often enjoyed playing with mud in a vacant lot in her neighborhood. Texture of clay drew her attention, and spent hours and hours digging the ground, soaking her hands with clay and water to create figures. It was a natural transition in her life that she chose to be in art field to develop her career as an artist. While in the school, she pursues issues in communication, cultural identity, and relationships through her art practices.