Company & Gallery History
2011
February
Supported The Longest Walk 3
July
Edo Shigusa Seminar in Silicon Valley
August
7th Annual Mother Earth Tour: East Coast
October
10th Indian Youth Delegation to Japan
Screening of film Nowa Cumig/The Drum Will Never Stop in Tokyo
2010
January
Dennis Banks Documentary " A Good Day To Die" was completed
August
9th Yamamoto Cup & 6th Mother Earth Tour(South)
October
Sponsored Dennis Banks for COP 10 to Japan.
9th Indian Youth Delegation to Japan
Screening of the film"A Good Day To Die" in Tokyo
2009
April
Ray went to Japan for TDI new design event
August
8th Yamamoto Cup & 5th Mother Earth Tour(CA, NV)
Piazza Trading 20th Anniversary Event
Edo Shigusa Lecture ( San Francisco)
NCI Benefit Event( Mill Valley)
October
8th Indian Youth Delegation to Japan
Screening of the film" Yamamoto Cup" in Tokyo
2008
February
Sponsored 'Clean up Mother Earth' campaign for the Longest Walk 2.
April
Ray went to Japan for TDI new design event
July
Cosponsored LW2 DC Concert
August
4th Mother Earth Tour ( North West Coast)
2007
July
3rd Mother Earth Tour (South West)
December
Dennis Banks Documentary LLC was established and the film is being produced by the Yocha Dehe Wintun Noation of California. DBD executive office will be located at Piazza Trading & Co., Ltd.
November
Cosponsored the benefit concert of Kris Kristofferson, Taji Mahar, & Kitaro for the Longest Walk 2 (SF – DC) fund raising.
2006
Feburay
Sponsored Benefit Concert for Sacred Run( SF – DC)
April
Grand Opening Event of Ray Tracey Shop with Ray Tracey in Harajuku, Tokyo.
July
2nd Mother Earth Tour(Midwest )
2005
April
Tracey Designs, Inc. was established in California, and also as a business in the state of New Mexico in September 2006.
May – July
1st Mother Earth Tour(Japan & SD), which is to raise fund for Sundance Ceremony.
July
Ojibwa Warrior Productions, LLC was established, and was granted worldwide exclusive license of Dennis Banks intellectual property and products. The executive office will be located at Piazza Trading & Co., Ltd. in Sausalito.
2004
October
3rd Indian Youth delegation to Japan.
2003
March
DBC & Piazza participated FOODEX in Tokyo.
Closed Gallery Piazza
May
Held American Foods Event in Tokyo.
2002
July
The first annual Yamamoto Cup (Great Anishinabe Canoe Race) started by Nowa Cumig Institute at Leech Lake Reservation, MN.
August
Sold San Francisco Piazza Building.
October
1st Indian Youth delegation to Japan .
2001
January
Dennis Banks American Grill was opened in Eitaibashi, Tokyo.
April
Dennis Banks & Co. Ltd. was established at tribal land in MN, and Piazza invested in the company. DBC sold local maple syrup and wild rice to Japan.
Jun
Paris Ethnic Food Show
2000
April
Gallery Piazza 10th Anniversary Art Exhibit:
Japanese Eco Artist, Takashi Akiyama
1999
April
Gallery Piazza 9th Anniversary Art Exhibit
Shioh Kato "Seeking the Infinite Beauty of the Universe"
1998
November
Kaji Aso "Dreaming of Space" Exhibit:
Japanese artist, Professor of Fine Art Museum School of Boston, MA
1997
June
Grand Opening of Ray Tracey Jewelery section of Gallery Piazza, Sausalito, CA.
1996
May
Established SP Planning Co., Ltd. in New York, as a subsidiary of Piazza Trading & Co., Ltd., to manage fashion designers
August
Co-Sponsored Concert Of Indian Market in Santa Fe, NM.
1995
September
Ray Tracey and Santa Fe Poster Exhibit in Tokyo
1994
January
Opened Santa Fe Office with Laura Purusha, Mountain Gem
May
Chamber of Commerce event:
Sausalito Business Womens Network "Silent Auction" fundraiser for NPO
June
Walter York Koeningstein, a collaboration with the Australian Government
October
"Anasazi Santa Fe"
2nd store opened at Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo
December
Purchased Bel Center Building in Novato California
1993
July
Grand Opening, "Anisazi Santa Fe":
Opened Jewelry Store, Anasazi Santa Fe, and re-opened Gallery Piazza in the Harajuku District of Tokyo, Japan
November
Purchased San Fransico Piazza Building
44 Gough Street, main tenant City of San Francisco
1992
October
Art Exhibit:
"Another 500 Years" Santa Fe New Mexico Artists including Doug Coffin, well known Native American artist
November
Art Exhibit:
Koichi Tanikawa & Chizuru Miyasako, whose work is vivid and joyful abstract tribute to nature, at Copeland Rutherford Gallery,Santa Fe, NM
1991
April
Piazza Trading 1st Anniversary Art Exhibit:
Graphic Works of Renoir (consultant: Kiko Kikkawa)
1990
January
Purchased Sausalito Piazza Building
April
Grand Opening of Gallery Piazza with Dennis Banks who performed a Native American Ceremony
Gallery Piazza Exhibits: Thomas Bayrle, German artist, Professor of Art School in Frankfurt
December
Live Painting Performance& Exhibit
Seitaro Kuroda- Japanese Artist
Shonosuke Okura- Japanese Noh Drummer/Singer- His family has a 600 year history as Noh drummers
1989
December 8th
Founded with the assistance of Attorney ,Steven Teraoka