Culture Keeper Bio
Eryn Kimura is a fifth-generation Frisconian and Japanese-Chinese American mixed media artist, filmmaker, cultural producer, and community builder. Her mixed media collage work is both playful and archival, conjuring ancestral pasts and futures, centering connection and context amidst displacement and historical amnesia. Growing up in Japantown, she has a deep stake in the interconnectedness of Japanese-American and Black/African-American community heritages and shared histories. She co-produced BENKYODO: the Last Manju Shop in J-Town (2023), documenting the final months of San Francisco’s first and last traditional Japanese American confectionery. She currently works at Booker T. Washington Community Service Center, SF’s oldest Black-led, Black-serving community-based organization. Guided by a north star vision of stewarding a polycultural Frisco village, Eryn weaves together an ecosystem of connection, possibility, and solidarity with every action, relationship, and conversation.
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