Now, autumn is the season for art. Karuizawa New Art Museum held two types of workshops on the first weekend of the season.
On Culture Day, Saturday, November 11rd, there was a "Make a Badge" workshop inspired by Mizu Tetsuo's work on the theme of "International Signal Flags," which is currently on display in Room 3. The participants seemed impressed by the mechanics of Mizu Tetsuo's paintings. When they realized they could decipher the pictures, which at first glance were hard to understand, their eyes lighted up and they compared the A to Z of the maritime flags with the work, appreciating it. Afterwards, they cleverly incorporated their own names into their own lovely badges.

Then, on Sunday, November 11th, following on from Mizu the previous day, we focused on Ay-O, one of the seven artists in the exhibition "Japanese Artists Currently Being Re-evaluated Around the World," and held a workshop in which he attempted to express concrete objects using the colors of the rainbow.
At first, everyone who participated said, "It's difficult, it's difficult," but in the end, they were absorbed in the process and completed wonderful original works. It seemed that they were able to understand firsthand how intricately Ay-O had composed and created her works using the colors of the rainbow.

Seeing the lively expressions on the participants' faces, we, the organizers, would like to continue to think of ways to hold workshops that allow people to intuitively experience and get closer to the artist's intentions. Thank you to everyone who participated.

Volunteer students from the art club at Karuizawa Junior High School helped out at these two workshops. We are always looking for museum volunteers to help make the monthly workshops more exciting.
We have also created an album on Facebook so that you can see what the workshop is like. If you are interested, please take a look.