Asha Carolyn YoungAsha Carolyn Young is a painter, writer and publisher who was close friends with Hari E. Thomas for over 20 years. When Thomas passed away in 2011, Young became steward of his artwork and established his website: http: //ashari-galleria.fineartameric.com. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and Berkeley (B.A. History, M.A. Cultural Anthropology, respectively) and received the following awards: Robert Lowie Fund Grant, UCB (1984), Graduate Humanities Research Grant, UCB (1983), President's Undergraduate Fellowship for Research, UCLA (1980-1981), and Justin Turner Award for History, UCLA (1981). Born in Chiang Mai, Thailand to American parents, she studied Chinese brush painting at age 15 with master painter, Kan Yi Chen in Vientiane, Laos. Later, in Berkeley, California, she studied Japanese painting with master painter, Kayoko Bird. She also studied art at Laney College, Oakland, California. Her own paintings show at http: //asha-young.fineartamerica.com. She is author of two other art-related books. Read More Read Less