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Artistic restaurant exploring sustainability

Artistic restaurant exploring sustainability

Artistic restaurant exploring sustainability

Artistic restaurant exploring sustainability

Artistic restaurant exploring sustainability

空手× デジタルテクノロジー「KATA」

2021.02.03

Facebook更新 (Coleman)

ストリートダンス meets 盆踊り（仮称）

2020.12.22

Kizuna Dance TV開設

旅はすみか - The Journey Itself Home

2021.02.25

イベント情報 (marksearch)

サステナビリティを探究するアートレストラン

2020.10.09

Facebook更新 (Schlesinger)

日米キッズ・パブリック・アートプロジェクト

2020.11.17

Facebook更新 (Volta)

Introduction

日米芸術家交換プログラムは、日米友好基金（The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission）と全米芸術基金（The National Endowment for the Arts）の主催のもと、日本の文化庁と国際文化会館の協力を得て、1978年より実施されています。

以後41年間に渡り、毎年米国を拠点とするアーティストが選出され、日本で文化・芸術の研修が行われてきました。2020-21年のプログラムでは発足以来初の試みとして、日米のアーティストがチームを組んで作品をつくり、2021年のオリンピック・パラリンピック開催時期に合わせて東京で展示・上演します。アートを通して長きに渡る日米の友好関係を象徴し、東京オリンピック・パラリンピックを記念する特別企画です。

Projects

01

空手 × デジタルテクノロジー「KATA」

日時：2021年7月30＆31日

場所：渋谷文化総合センター

02

ストリートダンス meets 盆踊り（仮称）

日時：2021年夏

場所：シアターX（カイ）

03

旅はすみか The Journey Itself Home

日時：2021年夏

場所：世田谷美術館他

04

サステナビリティを探究するアートレストラン

日時：2021年夏

場所：世田谷美術館他

05

日米キッズ・パブリック・アートプロジェクト

日時：2021年夏

場所：TBA

News

2020.08.09: 短編ドキュメンタリー公開
2020.08.06: メディア掲載 (Japan Forward)
2020.06.22: ウェブサイトリニューアル公開
2020.04.09: COVID-19感染拡大によるプログラムの方針変更について

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How do we begin again? 10 years after the Great Ea

How do we begin again? 10 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, and in the midst of a global pandemic, learn how Oakland-based artists marksearch (Sue Mark + Bruce Douglas) and Tokyo-based artists Hiroyuki Abe and Natsuka Endo creatively approach community-engaged art when it is not safe to gather in person. Join a participatory conversation about their new work 旅はすみか/ Journey Itself Home, a memorial to the Tohoku region. Launching with the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, these interactive sound monuments feature the voices of young adult 3.11 survivors. This dynamic round table will be moderated by Honomi Ijima - environmental scientist and cultural translator for the artist team - and Miho Walsh, former Executive Director of the Asian Cultural Council.

The event takes place on Friday, 3/19 in the United States / Saturday, 3/20 in Japan. It is hosted by Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission - JUSFC in collaboration with East-West Center and International House of Japan - 国際文化会館.

Kizuna 絆 Dance - the NYC-based dance company fou

Kizuna 絆 Dance - the NYC-based dance company founded and directed by Nichi Bei Creative Artists fellow Cameron McKinney - will give its first in-person performances of 2021 in late March. @kizunadance blends dance styles and cross-cultural traditions to create performances that are physically complex, and that celebrate aspects of Japanese language, culture, and history. As part of the @artsonsite Arts Alive Performance Series in New York City, Kizuna will share two forty-minute programs of their signature works. Their shows at Arts On Site are designed to bring artists and audience members together indoors in a low-risk way—performances are hosted in a large, well-ventilated studio, audiences are limited to 16 people per show, and social distancing precautions will be observed. Kizuna’s Arts On Site: Arts Alive performances are scheduled for Friday, 3/19 in New York City’s Astor Place neighborhood; to reserve tickets and learn more, visit cameronmckinneydance.com. For his Nichi Bei Creative Artists Artists project, McKinney is working with renowned Japanese choreographer @toru_official on a collaborative work of contemporary dance. Their piece will feature dancers from both Japan and the United States, and will highlight the two countries’ friendship and cooperation. To learn about the project, visit bit.ly/NichiBei_Dance. And for more on the Nichi Bei Creative Artists Program - made possible with support from @japanusfriendship, @neaarts and @i_house_japan - visit nichibei-artists.org/en/.

Years before he became a Nichi Bei Creative Artist

Years before he became a Nichi Bei Creative Artists Fellow, Philadelphia-based muralist Ben Volta collaborated with local students on a public art project entitled “We Are All Neurons.” The 2013 project, which Volta undertook in collaboration with @muralarts, was inspired by the announcement of a national initiative to map the human brain. Volta worked with students to explore how art, creativity, neuroscience and brain imaging can intersect. After weeks of study and research, the students created hundreds of artworks based on their learning; the drawings were then combined to create a colorful brain-themed work that covered the exterior of a Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) train car for public viewing. The train line where the art was placed “links people to thousands of real-world connections every day,” Volta wrote, “which makes it the perfect vehicle for reflecting on the amazing networks inside our brains and for marveling at the interdependent galaxies that lie hidden just below our surface.” Learn more at benvolta.com/we-are-all-neurons, Mural Arts Philadelphia (muralarts.org/artworks/we-are-all-neurons), and the project’s homepage (weareallneurons.blogspot.com). For his Creative Artists project, Volta is working with educator Cho Kuwakado, artist Yasuyuki Sakura, and photographer Hiroaki Seo to create a collaborative work of art inspired by the careers of Japanese and American scientists, sports figures and educators. The project will engage students from both countries, whose individual works of art will be combined to form a larger piece for public display. Learn more about the project at bit.ly/NichiBei_MuralProject. And for more on the Nichi Bei Creative Artists Program - made possible with support from @japanusfriendship - JUSFC, @neaarts and @i_house_japan - 国際文化会館 - visit nichibei-artists.org/en/.

Nichi Bei Creative Artists team members recently p

Nichi Bei Creative Artists team members recently participated in an online conversation about the KATA Project, a collaborative new work that melds original music, martial arts performance, motion sensors, brain scan technology and video. The discussion featured KATA’s core creative team - composer and director Gene Coleman (@soundfield7), composer and music technologist Adam Vidiksis (@vidikulous), Gidayu-style shamisen performer Sansuzu Tsuruzawa and composer and shakuhachi player Akikazu Nakamura - and was moderated by former Asian Cultural Council executive director Miho Walsh. During the virtual roundtable, the artists discussed collaboration during the pandemic, and how their project will blend traditional shamisen and shakuhachi performances with cutting-edge technology. The online event also featured a demonstration by Vidiksis of the sensors and software that will capture biometric information from KATA performers, and a discussion of how that data will be used as part of the overall work. To watch video of the online event, visit bit.ly/KATAVideo. Originally scheduled for performance this past summer, KATA was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic; the work will now be premiered on July 30 and 21, 2021, at Sakura Hall in Tokyo. KATA will also be performed in the United States in Fall 2021. For more on the project, visit KataProject.org, the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission blog at bit.ly/KATA_JUSFC, and @kataproj. And to learn more about the Nichi Bei Creative Artists Program - made possible with support from @japanusfriendship, @neaarts and @i_house_japan - visit nichibei-artists.org/en/.

Nichi Bei Creative Artists team members are commem

Nichi Bei Creative Artists team members are commemorating the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011 by speaking with those impacted by the incident, and interpreting the conversations through art. To develop their project "Journey Itself Home,” the team began connecting with university students and recent graduates from Japan's Sendai region in September. Their discussions focused on the impact of the 311 disaster ten years later, environmental concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, healing and recovery, and hope for the future. “It was the eerie quiet after the tsunami that scared me the most,” said one survivor, describing memories of the 311 disaster. “The power went out, it was snowing. And it was silent.” Team member @natsukaendo, a Tokyo-based artist, has interpreted some of these conversations through original drawings, which the team shares via Instagram along with other “visual diary” artworks she creates. Endo is working with fellow Tokyo artist @hiroyukiab and Oakland-based artists Sue Mark and Bruce Douglas (who work together as @marksearchoakland) to honor the disaster’s ten-year anniversary through haiku, sound, and collaboration with the public. Journey Itself Home will be presented publicly this summer at Tokyo’s Setagaya Art Museum. View Endo’s artwork and follow Journey Itself Home via Instagram at @journeyitselfhome, or via the project’s homepage (journeyitselfhome.com). For more information about the Nichi Bei Creative Artists Program - made possible with support from @japanusfriendship, @neaarts and @i_house_japan - visit nichibei-artists.org/en/.

@studioahead, a San Francisco-based artist and des

@studioahead, a San Francisco-based artist and designer collective, recently featured an interview with Nichi Bei Creative Artists fellow @jesse_____singer in its monthly journal. The article describes Schlesinger as “an artist, craftsman, and farmer whose work explores the materiality of wood and stone, earth and plant,” and discusses his background, education and methodology. Schlesinger learned carpentry from his father and worked on an organic farm before graduating from California College of the Arts. His practice encompasses sculpture, architecture, drawing, furniture-making, and photography, and he collaborates with other artists across genre and geography. “I am very fortunate to have a broad network of talented craftspeople and artisans that I work with, both in the Bay Area, and on my projects in Japan,” he said in the interview. “I am indebted to their generosity, their dedication to their craft, and their willingness to work together.” Read the full Artist Spotlight article at bit.ly/Schlesinger_StudioAhead. For more examples of Schlesinger’s art, visit www.jesseschlesinger.com; and learn more about Studio AHEAD at www.studioahead.com. For his Nichi Bei Creative Artists project, Schlesinger is collaborating with Kyoto-based chef @masayofunakoshi to examine sustainability through the lens of food and farming; the culmination of their project, an experimental and temporary restaurant, will be presented this summer at Tokyo’s Setagaya Art Museum. Learn more about their work together at bit.ly/JUSFC_Sustainability and bit.ly/NB_Sustainability. For more information about the Nichi Bei Creative Artists Program - made possible with support from @japanusfriendship, @neaarts and @i_house_japan - visit nichibei-artists.org/en/.

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