This May, 2026. a powerful new public sculpture titled Remember (Day of Exile) 1941 will be unveiled in Ober Park by Vashon artist Miya Sukune. In this episode, we step into Miya’s deeply thoughtful body of work, which spans painting exhibitions, public art, residencies, and publications.

Her work is currently featured at MOHAI—the Museum of History & Industry—as part of the moving collection of Boys’ and Girls’ Day dolls left behind by Japanese families during incarceration.

Miya has exhibited in group shows at ARTS at King Street Station, Wheaton College, and the Vashon Center for the Arts Gallery. Her public art series Matsuda Family, which honors a Vashon Island family’s internment during World War II, has been permanently installed at the Matsuda Farm of the Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust.

Miya has been an artist-in-residence at Vermont Studio Center, Studio Kura (Japan), Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Serlachius Residency at the SerlachiusMuseums (Finland), and Original Mind Residency. Her work has appeared in Carnegie Mellon University’s Oakland Review, the University of Kentucky’s New Limestone Review, and William & Mary Review.

Her graphic novel, Searching for Saito, is a fictional history of a Japanese elder in the first half of the twentieth century. Learn more at www.SearchingforSaito.com.