1:30pm−4pm / 3pm−5:30pm
“Making” Workshop: Unearth Your Very Own Ceramic Work
“Seeing” Guided Tour: Let’s “see, feel, and chat” at the Art Fair!
*Application closed
- Lecturers: Yasunaga Masaomi and The All tours is instructed by Members of Art Communication Research Center (ACC), Kyoto University of the Arts
A program of participatory workshops will be held. This program will combine “Seeing” Guided Tour with a guided tour of the venue and “Making” Workshop in which participants can actually work with their hands to create artworks together with artists.
“Making” Workshop
Unearth Your Very Own Ceramic Work
Instructor: Yasunaga Masaomi
Using a specially formulated clay, participants will first shape their creations at a separate venue before firing them in Yasunaga’s kiln. After firing, participants will be reunited with their works to give them the final finish. Come and experience for yourself the natural transformations of your work through the firing process.
Note: Participation is limited to those able to attend both the preliminary workshop scheduled for Monday, October 14 (national holiday) and the workshop on Saturday, November 2.
Let’s “see, feel, and chat” at the Art Fair!
Instructor: Members of Art Communication Research Center (ACC), Kyoto University of the Arts
What is an art fair? What kind of artworks can we encounter?
Let’s discover new ways of “seeing” and “enjoying” artworks through interactive viewing, where everyone enjoys looking at artworks and chatting about what they think, feel, and discover. While navigating the venue with a guide staff member, we will take our time to appreciate the real artworks on display.
Specific age groups: 8 to 13-year-olds / 3rd-6th grade elementary school students
Date & Hour: Sat. November 2
1:30pm−4pm (Admission from 1pm)
3pm−5:30pm (Admission from 2:30pm)
Venue: ICC Kyoto New Hall Kids’ Program Hub
Note: Advance registration required. Participation in the workshops is free of charge. Admission to the venue (free for junior high school students and younger) is not included.
Capacity: 15 participants per each session
(First come, first served)
Notes: Please note that applications will be closed as soon as the number of participants reaches full capacity. Information on what to bring and how to register on the day of the event will be sent via email shortly before the event. The program will be conducted in Japanese only.
- Yasunaga Masaomi
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Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1982. Completed his graduate studies at Osaka Sangyo University in 2006. While at university, Yasunaga studied under Hoshino Satoru, a member of the avant-garde ceramic group, Sodeisha. After graduating, he established a pottery studio in Iga-shi, Mie Prefecture. In the early days of his career, Yasunaga worked on sculptural pieces while also engaging in ceramics as a potter. The firing techniques he developed for the firewood kiln during this period laid the foundation for his current firing ethos. Major exhibitions include “Enamel and Body/Ceramics” in 2003 (Ginza Maison Hermès).
- Art Communication Research Center (ACC), Kyoto University of the Arts
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A research center attached to Kyoto University of the Arts, a research institute that explores the possibilities of art from various perspectives. It was established in April 2009 with Fuku Noriko as its first director, who was the first person to introduce the Visual Thinking Curriculum (VTC) developed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York to Japan. The interactive art education program ACOP (Art Communication Project) considers art communication in a broad sense, and approaches communication—the most important element for people to live with others—from the field of art to understand the nature of communication and how it can be nurtured.
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