Megumi is a ceramicist who lives and work in Boston, USA, and Birmingham, UK. She is currently a professor of Art at Emmanuel College in Boston, MA. Megumi is originally from Tokyo, though she was formally trained in ceramics in the United States receiving an M.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art in 2000 and a B.S. in Applied Arts from San Diego State University in 1995. Megumi was a recipient of the Brother Thomas Fellowship in 2013, the NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) Emerging Artist Award in 2007, The Clay Studio Solo Exhibition award in 2005, and the Massachusetts Cultural Grant in 2003. Her works are in the collections of Digital Craft at Manchester Metropolitan University in the U.K., Ceramic Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, and Gauldagergaard, International, Ceramic Research Center in Denmark, to name a few.

Her interest in blending clay with technology runs through her body of work. Megumi has worked in digital 4-color separation (CMYK) screen printing since the late 1990s. These images are digitally created and manually printed on clay surfaces with 4 separate screens (CMYK). Real Life / Virtual Life. Pixel Mosaic Portrait. Bitmap Character.

She became interested in 3D modeling and open-source digital 3D models in the early 2010s. This resulted in Orimeware, and Digital Still Life Series; Cotan.

In 2014, she made her first Delta Clay 3D Printer following Jonathan Keep's Plan on his website. She has collaborated with Anna Andersen in Denmark on Ceramic Commons - 3D printed ceramic collaborative exhibitions. Megumi also experimented with solid ceramic material casting in plastic 3D-printed molds. Digital Still Life Series; Morandi. This is where she started to time-lapse record the transformation of lime pop and started a simple form of stop motion animation. Electronic Dust.

Currently, she is creating "Ceramation", which showcases processes and ceramic objects in stop-motion animation.