onibaba studio
specializes in creative print and digital
illustrations, graphic recordings & visuals
for storytelling, education, and narrative shifting
onibaba studio is creatively directed by Cori Nakamura Lin and managed by Vianny Saito in Chicago, on the land of the Council of the Three Fires.
Cori (she.her) is a Japanese//Taiwanese//Okinawan-American illustrator specializing in culture-centered storytelling and radical information sharing. With over 10 years of experience crafting visuals for non-profits, foundations, community groups, and publications, she makes art that fuels action. Cori is inspired by cephalopods, visionary fiction, her own hunger, and the future generations of gosei/rokusei. Her personal artwork can be found at corilin.co.
Vianny (she.her) has a decade of experience working in events and a BA in arts management. Since moving to Chicago, she has been fortunate to find community organizing and building with other Japanese Americans. Vianny fills her free time with rock climbing, running and thinking deeply about pop culture.
an onibaba is a demon mountain hag of japanese story
Our studio name honors these mythic figures as “women who struggled in vain to break free from the confines of femininity and motherhood” and is inspired by them as “social dissenters who chose to transform themselves into non-human beings.” (Mayako Murai)
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