Patricia Field

Fashion Designer/Stylist. Born in New York City in 1942. In 1995, Patricia met Sarah Jessica Parker on the set of "Miami Rhapsody," and 3 years later she joined "Sex and the City," a TV show starring Parker set in New York City, as the costume designer, for which she won an Emmy Award in 2002. In 2007, she was nominated for an Academy Award in the Costume Design Category for her work on "The Devil Wears Prada," a movie also based in New York City. In 2008, for the hair care brand Vidal Sassoon, Patricia collaborated with Japanese R&B singer Namie Amuro and designer Orlando Pita, and in December of the same year, she collaborated with American Express to stage their first Fashion Show based on expressing styling ideas in Tokyo.

Patricia was great friends with Keith Haring ever since he arrived to NYC, and in 1983 they held an event at her store on 8th street in NYC to sell T-shirts that Keith painted on. In 2010, to commemorate 20 years since his death, Patricia is hosting "K. Haring by House of Field," a fashion line consisting of designs by Keith. Patricia visited the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection in January of 2010 and called it "like heaven."

Patricia Field Official Website
http://www.patriciafield.com/

Jacques De Mélo

Photographer. Born in France. Based in NYC since 1983. Jacques' life work is to take photographs of migrants and minorities, and he has held several solo and group exhibitions, primarily in NYC and France. In 2008, as Creative Director, Jacques produced "Ecoute," a sound performance of music, poetry and dancing, for the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection. In 2010, at Studio 303 in Chelsea, Jacques held a photography exhibit highlighting the Collection's unique architecture as well as the nature of the Yatsugatake mountains surrounding the museum. A post card set of Jacques photography is on sale at the museum shop.

MAYA MAXX

Born in Aichi prefecture in 1961. In 1993, she held her first solo exhibition titled "Coming and Going" and officially started her career as Maya Maxx. Her solo exhibit in 1999 at the LaForet Museum in Tokyo gathered a crowd of over 10,000, and ever since, she has expanded her portfolio and changed her style from an array of monochromatic images of monkeys and trees to a more abstract approach towards imagery in general. In 2008, she moved her base to New York and in 2009 she held work shops for children and live painting events at the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection opening ceremony in honor of Keith.

She has published many books, including a collection of her periodic columns in the magazine "Mizue" titled "Maya Maxx no hurueru hodo suki" (Maya Maxx's I like it so much I shiver) which were published in a book titled "E ga hurueru hodo suki in naru - Maya Maxx no roshia no meiga to tabi guide" (Liking images so much you shiver - Maya Maxx's guide to Russia and it's masterpiece paintings) as well as illustrations for books such as "Shiro neko shiro chan" (white cat whitey), "Chucchu" (Kiss Kiss) and "Rakko chan" (Little Otter). She has also made many TV appearances, including "Ponkikkies" and "Shinken jyu-dai shaberi-ba" (Teenager's serious discussion panel).

Maya Maxx Official Website
http://www.mayamaxx.com/

Toshinori Kondo

Born as the first son of a metalsmith in Ehime prefecture, on the coastline of the Seto Inland Sea, Toshinori Kondo started playing the Trumpet at the age of 13 in his junior high school brass band. Influenced by Jazz while studying at Kyoto University, in April of 1972 he left for Tokyo to become a free jazz musician. In september of 1978, he moved to the Lower East Side of NYC, where he performed alongside European free-improvisational musicians such as John Zorn, Bill Laswell and Misha Mengelberg, with whom he also toured with. In 1983 he joined the recording of Herbie Hancock's "Sound System." After that, under the influence of Bill Laswell, who was a producer in the early stages of the Hip-Hop movement, Kondo was turned on to digital music and bought a drum machine and started the process of electrifying the trumpet.

In 1984 Kondo returned to Tokyo and formed an all Japanese jazz band called IMA to distribute music from Tokyo to the world. He also began writing music for movies, TV shows and commercials, as well as appearing in them. In December of 1993 he suddenly left Tokyo for Amsterdam, and started the "Chikyuu wo huku" (Blow the Earth) project, starting off in the Negev desert in Israel. Ever since then, he has played the electric trumpet in areas of great nature such as the Andes in Peru, Okinawa, the Ladakh Himalayas, the McKinley Mountains in Alaska and Kumano in Japan. Simultaneously, he has collaborated with an array of musicians from different genres such as DJ Krush, DJ Disc, DJ Grasshoppa, DJ Submerged, DJ Yama, and DJ Takada. In 2000 he started the project "Mountain Fuji Aged 2000" with the goal to clean up the garbage from Mt. Fuji. In 2001, with the backing of Dalai Lhama the 14th, Kondo produced an International Music Festival for Peace in Hiroshima.

In 2003, his CD "The Yoshihara" won the award in the Best Project category of the Record Taishou annual record awards. In 2005 he started "The Pikadon Project" with Seitarou Kuroda, Tadao Ando and the renowned photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. In the summer of 2007 he started the Japanese leg of his "Chikyuu wo huku in Japan" (Blow the Earth in Japan) project, in which he attempts to express every one of the four seasons of Japan through the electric trumpet. In fall of 2008 the CD of the recordings was released, and he also published his autobiography "Inochi wa sokkyou da" (Life is Improvisation). Also, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Keith Haring's birth, he released "Going Places… For Keith" from the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection.

Nakamura Michio

DJ, Producer and media personality. Born in 1967. Nakamura was a Club DJ and a FM Radio and TV personality in HIroshima before moving to Tokyo. In 1998 he won critical acclaim for appearing in a musical directed by Accordionist Coba entitled "Blue Angel," which became the first instance in Japan for a DJ to be in a musical. In the same year he joined the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra as their official DJ. Together, Nakamura and the band formed a record label called "Jasta Record." In 2003, he pitched a project to create a movie about musician Tamio Okuda's live performance at the Citizen's Ball Park in Hiroshima, and also produced a website called ROCKTEES.JP, where tour T-Shirts of bands touring Japan are available. Presently, Nakamura operates HEARTLAND in the Roppongi Hills, as well as a bar in the East Village restaurant Drom, where he produces live entertainment under the concept of Music and Entertainment. In 2009 he collaborated with Maya Maxx for the opening of the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection, where he performed as a DJ alongside Maya Maxx's live painting.

Reiko Yamazaki

Actress, born in Saitama. Reiko has been an ardent fan of the nature, art and sports since she was a child and played basketball in the Inter HIgh School Championships as a high school student. In 2003, she appeared in "Itsuka A ressha in note" (Someday on the A train) directed by Toyohisa Araki. In 2006 she appeared in "Nezu no ban" (The dead's companion), and in 2007 she joined the acting troupe "NAS". In 2008 she appeared in "Jirochou Sangokushi" (Jirochou's Tale of the Three Kingdoms) and two Masahiko Makino productions. She aspires to be an emotionally rich actress, and continues to act in commercials, stage productions and TV dramas. She studied sign language in the past, and was introduced to the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection through volunteering with children at workshops, which she does alongside her acting.

Reiko was mesmerized by the work of Electric Trumpeter Toshinori Kondo in the great nature of Kobuchizawa, and in 2009 produced the CD "Going Places … For Keith" in collaboration with the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection. She is transmitting a new message of hope throughout the world.