About

Hidemi Tanaka Baughman was born in Tokyo and studied at Nihon Design School before she came to the U.S.  In the U.S. she graduated from Massachusetts College of Art (B.F.A.) and New England School of Art (Suffolk University).  She continued her studies at Harvard University under Toshi Katayama and was a resident tutor at Dunster House.  For six years, she was a member of the exhibition design team at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard.  After having two children, she focused on language and culture and received certification from the Massachusetts Department of Education to teach Japanese language in high school.  She taught at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School and was the chair of the Cambridge-Tsukuba, Japan Sister-City Committee.

Hidemi’s work focuses on color and lines.  She has experimented on this theme in media extending from painting, through silk screen and paper collage, to cloth and quilt-work.  More recently, she has used oil painting  to create beautiful landscapes, exploring the sea coast of Okinawa, Japan and Falmouth, Cape Code.