Carol Shireena Sakai - Bronze Sculptor
A Renaissance woman, Carol Shireena Sakai is an ARTIST,(portraits, florals), (illustrations), sculptor(bronze), composer and poet. She was originally trained as a scientist, however in 1983 received a calling to develop her artistic self.

She received her doctorate in Medical Physiology from the U. of Maryland School of Medicine, with postdoctoral training in Reproductive Endocrinology at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD. She has studied human anatomy many times over, both from the medical and artistic point of view. This deep knowledge has helped her to create many portraits and figurative sculptures.

Carol received drawing & portrait painting instruction from the Corcoran School of Art, Wash., D. C., the Art League at the Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA and bronze sculpture training at the Montpelier Art Center, Laurel, MD and Johnston Atelier, in New Jersey. She is an associate of the National Sculpture Society has had numerous art showings of her work. Her portrait commissions are in private collections nationwide. The Chicago Tribune published her artwork in a featured article on visionary artists. The McLean Gazette wrote published an article about a public casting commission she received from URB magazine on behalf of the Toyota company. For this commission, Carol cast replicates of the new Toyota Scion car which were then taken on a worldwide tour. She has created commissions for the Florence Melton Mini-School on behalf of the Greater Washington Jewish Community Center. She recently completed a commission to create a sculpture of the new Colonel Sanders for the KFC 2006 ad campaign. She has done over 50 private commissions.

Her paintings have been on the cover of Pathways Magazine and in the pages of the Capital Hill Rag. Additionally, Carol is a classical musician and published poet and her music compositions for small ensemble have premiered at the Levine School of Music, Washington D. C.

Carol enjoys combining complex images, rhythms and themes and making ART in all forms - music, poetry, painting and bronze sculpture.

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