Summer Vacation Workshop 2018: Make your own flag/Make a disposable chopstick gun
Event Date:Saturday, August 2018, 8 "Make your own original flag"
Sunday, August 2018, 8 "Let's make a disposable chopstick gun"
Open Time:18th: 11:00-12:30 (only one session)
19日：10:30 ~12:00 ／14:00～15:30（午前・午後各定員15名）
*We will close registration once the capacity is reached. If there is still room, you can join on the day.
Place:Karuizawa New Art Museum
Conduct:Curator
Instructor:Chopstick gun: Professor Nagata Kinji
Target:From children to adults (infants must be accompanied by a guardian)
Karuizawa New Art Museum
Tel. 0267-46-8691 We look forward to your reservation by phone!
Exhibition Section
Mizu Tetsuo, an artist participating in the exhibition that starts on Saturday, July 7th this month, is creating paintings inspired by flags (international maritime signal flags) used for communication on ships. In the workshop on the first day, after viewing Mizu's works in the exhibition room on the second floor, participants will think up and design their own flag patterns and cut and paste colored paper to create their own original flags (flag garlands). For the "Make a disposable chopstick gun" event on the second day, as is the annual tradition, Nagata Kinji, a master of disposable chopstick guns, will be invited to make disposable chopstick guns. Applications are required for both workshops, but please feel free to participate. We look forward to hearing from you!
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Summer Vacation Workshop
REPORT
On the first day, after viewing the exhibition room on the second floor, you will be guided by Mizu Sensei's works.
I thought about and created my own flag.
International signal flags are made up of 40 different flag designs, from A to Z, 1 to 9, used for communication among ships.
Mizu Tetsuo used these signal flags to create his own unique world of painting. How close have you all become to Mizu Sensei?
Ms. Mizu also made a special appearance and livened up the workshop.
On the second day, Mr. Kinji Nagata made a disposable chopstick gun. He appeared again this year with a new 240-shot disposable chopstick gun.
This year, I slowly created one type.
He was engrossed in aiming his chopstick gun at the tower of paper cups that he had made.
This time, students from the art club at Karuizawa Junior High School also helped out and instructed the children.
When the boy begged to make something out of different materials, Mr. Nagata replied, "It's all made out of wood, like chopsticks and bamboo sticks. So it's fine."
He taught and instructed us.
Many of today's children's parents have never made a chopstick gun.
It was heartwarming to see the adults also joining in and making the crafts seriously.
At the same time, I want to learn about the meaning of my passion for the good old Japanese handmade toy, the disposable chopstick gun.
It was a moment that made me think.
In this convenient age, where children are playing with web devices such as iPads,
The importance of touching the actual material and using your hands, and what would happen if a rubber band hit someone or if the tip of a gun got stuck in someone?
The "pain" is meant to prevent children from injuring themselves with the materials used in the chopstick gun, and to ensure that the chopstick gun is improved every year so that children do not bring back the same one.
I was really impressed by how Professor Nagata was paying close attention to detail.
The disposable chopstick gun workshop has become an annual tradition.
The meaning of repetition and education through disposable chopstick art
It made me think again.
