Hello!

This is nobu (pronounced no-boo like the restaurant).

Nobu Koch (she/her) is based in Lingít Aaní (Juneau, Alaska) where she was born and raised. Nobu’s work is heavily influenced by her surroundings and her Japanese heritage.

Her illustrations can be found in Mary’s Wild Winter Feast and Sealaska Heritage’s Baby Raven Reads series (Baby Eagle and Baby Raven), an award-winning program that promotes early-literacy and school readiness for Alaska Native families with young children. She has also painted digital backgrounds for a Perseverance Theatre’s production, Spirit of the Valley, a live zoom-theatre production made during the pandemic.

Nobu loves Japanese folk tales, characters who have trouble with their words, and her dogs, Koa and Daisy. It is also well known that she loves cheese, a second piece of cake, and is always folding paper cranes for senbazuru (1000 paper cranes).