May 21, 2025
“Stolen Heirlooms” by Artist Kellen Hatanaka
Kellen Hatanaka … Continuedhttps://www.booooooom.com/2025/05/21/stolen-heirlooms-by-artist-kellen-hatanaka/
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“Stolen Heirlooms” by Artist Kellen Hatanaka
Kellen Hatanaka … Continuedhttps://www.booooooom.com/2025/05/21/stolen-heirlooms-by-artist-kellen-hatanaka/
Childhood
Mark didn’t know what to make of his son—he didn’t seem like an “ordinary” kid
As a treat, on the way to the appointment, they stopped at an Indian restaurant, and Mark Berman listened to his son pronounce the items on the menu. That they had made it this far was already a feat, since it meant they’d managed to leave the house, walk down to Eglinton Avenue, and board a bus filled with people, some of whose bodies gave off strange scents. Along the way, there had been tears, but they were mostly symbolic, the boy’s means of asserting himself.
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Illustration by Kellen Hatanaka (kellenhatanaka.com).
WNDB Summer Reading Series
If you liked DR. SEUSS'S ABC read Kellen Hatanaka's WORK: AN OCCUPATIONAL ABC because both make learning the alphabet a fun and funny experience! Read more about WORK: AN OCCUPATIONAL ABC at the Smithsonian BookDragon.
Work: An Occupational ABC – wonderful alphabet book by Canadian illustrator and graphic designer Kellen Hatanaka offers an imaginative atlas of vocational possibility that stands as an antidote to our culture's limiting definitions of success.
Oh, and it's full of brainy, brawny women, people of color, bodies of all shapes and sizes, and various stereotype-defying characters. Dive in here.
WORK: AN OCCUPATIONAL ABC by Kellen Hatakana: a beautiful, whimsical, and quirky reminder that yes, we CAN all grow up to be anything we want to be! (Look for WORK in stores August 2014!)
This is a sneak peak at our installation we built with Tyler John and Adrian Forrow for If Walls Could Talk. Our piece is fully immersive featuring a custom radio broadcast from Toronto’s favourite funny man Marty Topps. The show opens tonight at the Gladstone Hotel at 7. Go check it out!
This week we're doing crew pin designs.
Kellen Hatanaka
It's finally here! The week of my wedding. Couldn't be more excited! Love you Kiersten!
Kellen Hatanaka