Osaka University of Art Glass Program Meets RIT/SAC Glass Program
September 30th, 2008 | News
This project’s aim is to introduce the Osaka University’s Art’s Glass Program to The Rochester Institute of Technology’s Glass Program by posting images of Graduate and Senior student work from both schools for students to see what their counterparts are doing 7000 miles away from each other! I’ll begin by introducing OUA’s Glass Graduate students.
Tomoe Adachi
Noa Tanaka
Kaori Nakajima
Ayumi Honda
Takada Kenzou
The following is an introduction to OAU’s Senior student’s work beginning with…
Shiho Matsui
Akiko Sakaguchi
Haruka Hamamoto
Narumi Yoshida
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Fujiwara Sawako
Kanako Naito
Yuka Oshimoura
Hitomi Takeuchi
Satoko Tanigawa
Kazuyuki Morishima
Kensuke Kawano
Ryou Fujita
Marie Maeda
Miki Kitamura and Tomomi Takahashi
Azusa Nakagawa and Ayano Hamamoto
Kanako Togawa
Curating a Japanese Glass Art Exhibit
September 8th, 2008 | News
Currently I’m acting as curator for a Japanese glass art exhibition next year in Portland. Five artists are interested so far and all are past students at Aichi University of Education near Nagoya where I taught for 11 years before returning to the USA. One of the artists in this group Masahiro Sasaki has just started teaching at AUE this fall as head of the glass program there. The other artists are also all very active in the field, Masayo Odahashi, Hiroki Niimi, Megumi Esaki and Koichi Matsufuji. I would like to introduce these artist’s work as I continue to work on this project. I’ll be more specific as to where and when as soon as details are firmed up.
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Arrived in Japan…4 weeks
September 7th, 2008 | Journal
I arrived in Japan four weeks ago and have moved into my small apartment near the Osaka University of Art not far from Kishi, a small town about 45 minutes by train from Shin Osaka where the Shinkansen bullet train can be taken to other large cities. Kyoto is just a 15- minute train ride from Shin Osaka. I was traveling here with my friend Rich Tannen and we decided to head straight away to Kyoto. We went to many temples, Sanjusangendo, Kiyomizudera, Ginkaku-ji, Nanzen-ji, Kodai-ji, Kinkaku-ji, and Ryoan-ji. We also walked around Nishiki Market and Pontocho along the Kamo river. What really stuck out for me this trip was the gardens at Ginkaku-ji and Ryoan-ji. I’m also not far from Nara the ancient capital of Japan where I visited Todai-ji (the largest wooden structure in the world with it’s giant bronze Buddha), Kasuga jinja with it’s many lanterns, and Horyu-ji (the oldest wooden structure in the world) among other temples and shrines.
