STORIES

Hajimari Art Center organizes exhibitions with eye-catching titles like Ta-Yoriai, Ta-Yoriau (Depending on each other, together) and Yawarakaku Nattemiru (Becoming soft). How do they come up with such themes that every visitor can relate to?

Many artists are affiliated with Atelier Yamanami in Koka City of Shiga prefecture. The studio’s activities are not limited to art-making and exhibitions but also expand into collaborations with different industries, which has gained them domestic a…

In music, there are moments when sounds become an ecstatic force that transforms the space as soon as the playing starts. A performance group called “otto & orabu” which was formed by members and staff at Shobu Gakuen, facility for persons with …

About 50 years ago from today, the passion of a painter changed the fate of a welfare facility.

A drawing that one member created with pencil. Doing what they wanted, how they wanted.