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Parrott (surname)
Parrott is the surname of: * Alice Kagawa Parrott, fiber artist and ceramicist * Alison Parrott, Canadian missing girl * Andrew Parrott, British musicologist and conductor * Big Nose George Parrott, American outlaw * Buddy Parrott, NASCAR crew chief * Carroll Parrott Blue, Film maker, author, & Professor * Cecil Parrott, British diplomat, translator, writer and scholar * Charles Joseph Parrott, birth name of Charley Chase, American comedian, actor, screenwriter and director * David Parrott, English cricketer * Delphine Parrott, British endocrinologist and immunologist * Edward Parrott, British teacher and author, Member of Parliament * Eluned Parrott, Welsh politician * Enoch Greenleafe Parrott, American naval officer * George Parrott, American Navy officer in World War I * Harry Craig Parrott, Canadian politician * Ian Parrott, British composer * Jacob Parrott, first recipient of the Medal of Honor for his military service in the American Civil War * James Parrott, America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Kagawa Parrott
Alice Kagawa Parrott (February 12, 1929 – September 11, 2009) was a Japanese American fiber artist and ceramicist. She spent most of her adult life in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she established a reputation as one of the country's most important weavers, and opened one of Santa Fe's first shops devoted weaving and crafts. Early life Education Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Takato and Isono Kagawa, a Japanese immigrant couple, Kagawa was the youngest of six children. After graduating from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1952 she began attending the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where she studied weaving with Marianne Strengell and minored in ceramics with Maija Grotell.At Cranbrook she began a lifelong friendship with fellow Hawaiian artist Toshiko Takaezu. During one Christmas vacation she worked, briefly, winding warps for Jack Lenor Larsen in New York City. Moving to New Mexico After graduating from Cranbrook in 1954, she moved to Albuquer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |