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Hiroko Koshino's Work at a Charity Bazaar

At Kobe Charity Art Fair 2011 scheduled on Saturday, April 23rd, and Sunday, 24th, at the Kobe Harborland, Hiroko Koshino will show  and sell her painting work as one of the influential participants. Their works and favorite belongings, as well as goods with their  signatures, will be sold at the fair. Part of the sales proceeds will  be donated to help the devastated areas of the March 11th earthquake, from Kobe City, whom themselves recovered from the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. If you will be in the neighborhood, please come and see.

Click here for the official website of the organizer, Artcommunication
http://www.artcommunication.jp/charity/index.html

Hiroko Koshino on TV

On Thursday, March 17th, Hiroko Koshino participated in a symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the  modern craftwork artists exhibition. In Kanazawa, where the exhibition was held, the designer had an enthusiastic discussion with Mr. Yuji Akimoto, Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Mr. Junji Ito, Professor of University of Toyama, actor/artist Mr. Tsurutaro Kataoka, and Mr. Ryohei Miyata, President of Tokyo University of the Arts, on the theme of "talking about the future of the craftwork: what to create now, as Japanese."

The symposium will be broadcasted on NHK-Educational TV with the title of "TV Symposium" on Saturday, April 23rd, from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm on NHK-Educational TV.

For more details, please refer to the NHK website (in Japanese):

At the 50th modern craftwork artists exhibition in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.
From left, Mr. Akimoto, Koshino, Mr. Ito, Mr. Kataoka, Mr. Toshio Ohi, a ceramic artist and a councilor of the organizer, and Mr. Kazuo Futami, the moderator for the symposium and an NHK announcer.