Kaname Takada is a professor at Columbus College of Art & Design in Columbus, OH. His work is included in the collections of San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Canton Museum of Art, the Columbus Metropolitan Library, Zanesville Art Center, Lamar Dodd Art Center, Ohio Craft Museum, and in a ceramic mural on CCAD's campus (at the Joseph V. Canzani Center). He has exhibited work in France, New Zealand, Japan, and the U.S. He has a BFA from CCAD (1989) and an MFA from the University of Notre Dame 1992.