Background
Her father, Suichi Sumioka receive a degree in Engineering from Stanford University, but after encountering discrimination in his attempts to obtain a job, he eventually came to own a flower shop in East Los Los Angeles Hisako working as a live-in house keeper while attending high school. Her mother died when she was 18.
Education
Los Angeles City College.
Career
Terasaki"s parents were economic migrants from Japan to the United States at the turn of the 20th century. After World World War II the Sumioka family had to split up for a few years as each member worked to get the family back on its feet. Terasaki went on to study Art at Los Angeles City College, but under pressure from her family to pursue a more practical career, she obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Education from Los Angeles State College in 1954.
While raising a family and supporting what would become her husband"s distinguished and busy academic career in Transplantation at University of California, Los Angeles, Terasaki pursued her activities in printmaking, exhibiting mainly in the Los Angeles area.
In fact, her most prolific period artistically was during the busy years of the 1970s and 1980s. They supported cultural, academic and church related activities, reflecting their lifelong interests.
Later in their lives, Paul and Hisako would be able to offer significant philanthropic support to the Japanese American community. Exhibitions 1978 The Framecompany, Los Gatos, California 1979 Second Annual Bay Area Women"s Graphic Arts Competition, California 1979 Los Angeles Art Association Gallery, California 1980 Los Angeles Art Association Gallery, California 1980 Garendo Gallery, Studio City, California 1980 Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, California 1981 San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, California 1981 Fourth Annual Print show, Westwood Center of the Arts, Los Angeles, California 1982 LAPS Membership Print Exhibition at the Multicultural Arts Institute, San Diego, California 1983 Ninth International Miniature Print Exhibition, Pratt Graphics Center Gallery, New York Philanthropic support University of California, Los Angeles Paul I and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, The Pavilion, Los Angeles County Museum of Art National Japanese American Memorial Foundation Washington District of Columbia University of California, Los Angeles Terasaki Life Sciences Building Web site with prints.