Rio Salado Instructor Shares Knowledge

Dr. Joni Koehn, a Japanese instructor at Rio Salado College, was featured in a recent azcentral feature about an esoteric form of Japanese theater called Noh.

Janet Baker, curator of Asian art at the Phoenix Art Museum, turned to Koehn for information to enrich the museum’s "Quiet Rage, Gentle Wail," exhibit featuring 22 masks and 24 accompanying prints.

"When we got the prints, we had no idea what they depicted and there was no identification whatsoever," Baker said. "The masks had just a name identifying them, so Joni was instrumental in enlightening us.”

Koehn is a Phoenix Noh expert who wrote her Ph.D. dissertation about the subject.

Read the interview here: http://tinyurl.com/pl4xks8

Photo: Phoenix Art Museum