Yayoi’s Memorial
April 30th, 2023
Sunday
@Picnic House Prospect Park
12pm-3pm
We invite you to celebrate the life and art of Yayoi Asoma with Ted and the Asoma Family. Please join us on Sunday 4/30/2023 at the Picnic House Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY! Please RSVP by 3/31/2023
Location
Picnic House Prospect Park
40 West Dr Brooklyn, NY
40 West Dr Brooklyn, NY
Date & Time
April 30, 2023
12 PM - 3 PM
12 PM - 3 PM
Light refreshments and Drinks will be served. Please dress comfortably and respectfully. Please kindly RSVP by 3/31/2023
“Loving Wife, Daughter, Sister, Teacher, and Artist”
3/12/1980-1/1/2023
Mrs. Yayoi Asoma, 42, of Brooklyn, NY, passed away peacefully on Sunday, January 1, 2023 in New Milford, CT. She was surrounded by her loving family including her husband Edward T. “Ted” Timbers.
Yayoi was born in New York City on March 12, 1980, daughter of Shigeki and Reiko Asoma of Saitama, Japan. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting, and the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, where she received her Master of Fine Arts. Yayoi’ s exhibitions included Yayoi Asoma: Curated by Stephen Westfall, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY; The Grass is Greener on the Other Side...So What?, Leo Fortuna Gallery, Hudson, NY; Artist As Teacher, The Studio, Armonk, NY, Remembering is Everything, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA; H-Art Gallery, Albany, NY; and her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and Hyperallergic. Her artwork was most recently shown in Litchfield County, CT, through Kenise Barnes Fine Art and at the Washington Art Association.
She loved to share her passion for the arts as a teacher and was an adjunct professor at Manhattanville College, taught studio programs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and brought art into New York City public schools through Studio in a School. She spent every summer since high school at the New York State Summer School of the Arts, first as a student and in her later years as the director of the fine arts program.
Yayoi is survived by her loving husband, her parents, and her brother Kichiemon Asoma. She will be dearly missed but will be remembered by those she has touched through her art, her life, and her teaching.
Arrangements: A traditional kotsuage cremation ceremony was performed privately at the convenience of the family. A memorial service for family and friends will be held on Sunday 4/30/2023 from 12pm at the Picnic House Prospect Park in Brooklyn, NY.
Memorial contributions can be made in Yayoi’s memory to Studio in a School: https://sias.networkforgood.com/projects/182271-in-memory-of-yayoi-asoma
3/12/1980-1/1/2023
Mrs. Yayoi Asoma, 42, of Brooklyn, NY, passed away peacefully on Sunday, January 1, 2023 in New Milford, CT. She was surrounded by her loving family including her husband Edward T. “Ted” Timbers.
Yayoi was born in New York City on March 12, 1980, daughter of Shigeki and Reiko Asoma of Saitama, Japan. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting, and the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, where she received her Master of Fine Arts. Yayoi’ s exhibitions included Yayoi Asoma: Curated by Stephen Westfall, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY; The Grass is Greener on the Other Side...So What?, Leo Fortuna Gallery, Hudson, NY; Artist As Teacher, The Studio, Armonk, NY, Remembering is Everything, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA; H-Art Gallery, Albany, NY; and her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and Hyperallergic. Her artwork was most recently shown in Litchfield County, CT, through Kenise Barnes Fine Art and at the Washington Art Association.
She loved to share her passion for the arts as a teacher and was an adjunct professor at Manhattanville College, taught studio programs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and brought art into New York City public schools through Studio in a School. She spent every summer since high school at the New York State Summer School of the Arts, first as a student and in her later years as the director of the fine arts program.
Yayoi is survived by her loving husband, her parents, and her brother Kichiemon Asoma. She will be dearly missed but will be remembered by those she has touched through her art, her life, and her teaching.
Arrangements: A traditional kotsuage cremation ceremony was performed privately at the convenience of the family. A memorial service for family and friends will be held on Sunday 4/30/2023 from 12pm at the Picnic House Prospect Park in Brooklyn, NY.
Memorial contributions can be made in Yayoi’s memory to Studio in a School: https://sias.networkforgood.com/projects/182271-in-memory-of-yayoi-asoma
Map and Directions
Picnic House Prospect Park
40 West Dr Brooklyn, NY
40 West Dr Brooklyn, NY
In lieu of gifts and flowers, we kindly ask that you make a donation to Studio in a School