Hayashi, Masumi, 1945-2006

LC control no.	nr2004036612
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Hayashi, Masumi, 1945-2006 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1945-09-03
Death date	2006-08-17
Place of birth	Rivers (Ariz.)
Place of death	Cleveland (Ohio)
Affiliation	Cleveland State University
Profession or occupation	Artists College teachers Photographers
Found in	Sights unseen, 2003: t.p. (Masumi Hayashi) cover p.3 (b. 1945) Masumi Hayashi, meditations, 2007: p. 6 (d. August 17, 2006) Wikipedia, February 20, 2018 (Masumi Hayashi (photographer); Dr. Masumi Hayashi (September 3, 1945--August 17, 2006) was an American photographer and artist who taught art at Cleveland State University, in Cleveland, Ohio, for 24 years; she was was born in in the Gila River War Relocation Camp in Rivers, Arizona, one of the United States government's War Relocation Authority camps, where Japanese-Americans were placed in internment during World War II; she grew up in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California; she attended UCLA and later went on to attend Florida State University in Tallahassee, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1975 and Master of Fine Arts degree in 1977; Hayashi joined the faculty of Cleveland State University as Assistant Professor of Photography in 1982, and became a full professor in 1996; she is best known for creating striking panoramic photocollages, using smaller color photographs (typically 4-by-6-inch prints) like tiles in a mosaic; on August 17, 2006, Masumi Hayashi and her neighbor, the 51-year-old artist and sculptor John Jackson, were shot to death by Jacob Cifelli, a 29-year-old neighbor in their apartment building on Detroit Avenue in Cleveland's Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, after she had complained about Cifelli's loud music; Jackson (who also worked as a maintenance man at the apartment complex) was slain while attempting to assist Hayashi after she was shot)
Associated language	eng