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"The Art of Ichiyo Ikebana" and "Waterways" – Japanese Floral Design
August 29 – September 18, at the Museum of Design.
The Museum of Design Atlanta presents two concurrent shows highlighting the beauty and precision of Japanese floral design. "The Art of Ichiyo Ikebana – Japanese Floral Design" from Akihiro Kasuya will be featured in Gallery 1. During each week of the Ichiyo Ikebana exhibit the Atlanta Chapter of the Ichiyo School of Ikebana will create a new display of flower arrangements in Gallery 2. The exhibitions will be on view beginning with a reception on August 29 through September 18. Special events and workshops will also take place during the weeks of the exhibit, including an Opening Reception on Sunday, August 29.
Facets of this three-week celebration of subtle magnificence include: "The Art of Ichiyo Ikebana – Japanese Floral Design – Akihiro Kasuya – A Personal Dialogue" The accomplished designer Iemoto Akihiro Kasuya, assisted by his son Naohiro, will exhibit a display examining the creative art of arranging for big spaces. The exhibit will provide insight into Kasuyafs creative process and to his unique way of constructing a gallery design that takes floral art to a high level of contemporary sophistication. "Waterways" During each week of the three-week Japanese floral design exhibit, the Atlanta Chapter of the Ichiyo School of Ikebana will create a new display of flower arrangements inspired by water. This showcase of contemporary Ikebana as interpreted by local artists will speak through a strong emphasis on modern and creative three-dimensional design and generate new interest in the traditional asymmetrical forms of Ikebana.
Opening Reception – Sunday, August 29, 5 to 7 p.m.
At this public Opening Reception, guests will have a chance to view the exhibit and meet master Iemoto Kasyua. Japanese refreshments will be served.
Entrance fee: $10
Workshops – September 7 through 11
Instructors of The Ichiyo School of Atlanta will offer introductory, half-day Ikebana workshops, which will cover the basic principles of Ikebana techniques and composition concepts through hands-on experience. Students will create flower arrangements that can be taken home to be enjoyed.
Workshop Hours: Morning workshop 10 a.m. to noon; afternoon workshop 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Fee: $45 for morning/afternoon (half-day) workshop, $75 for full-day workshop (workshop fees include supplies and flowers)
To register, visit: www.museumofdesign.org
Location: Museum of Design Atlanta
285 Peachtree Center Avenue, Marquis Two Tower
Atlanta, Georgia 30303-1229
404-979-6455
Museum Hours During Ikebana exhibition: Monday through Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Admission: $10 Adults, $5 Student with ID, $8 Seniors/Military. Group Rates Available.
Anime Weekend Atlanta
September 17 - 19 2010, at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel and Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, Georgia.
AWA has a wide variety of events including video room showings of Japanese cartoons from new releases and titles going back to the 1960's, a dealer's room with retailers who sell Japanese animation and manga related merchandise such as toys, videos, audio CD's and artwork, workshops, panel discussions on various topics including the current trends in Japan and how they will affect the United States, a costume contest where attendees dress up as their favorite anime or manga character, and scores of guests who have worked or currently are working in the industry. Wear your JapanFest wristband to Anime Weekend Atlanta and get $5 off walk-up admission!! Click here for details. For JapanFest attendees attending AWA, they can show the JapanFest Wrist Bracelet to get 1/2 admission for a single day ($12.50, regular price $25.00), or for two days (Saturday and Sunday, $17.50, regular price $35.00).
Tom Nakashima Featured in New Exhibit at The Hudgens
Through September 25 at The Hudgens Center for the Arts, located at 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Bldg. 300, in Duluth, in the Gwinnett Center complex.
Tom Nakashima, the well-known Georgia artist, will have a new exhibit at The Hudgens Center for the Arts, opening May 25.
A companion exhibit, the Augusta State University Faculty Invitational, will also open on May 25, and features artwork by Nakashimafs colleagues at Augusta State University.
The exhibits will be on view at The Hudgens through September 25.
gThis is the second exhibition of Tomfs work that I have curated and itfs been exciting to see the direction his work has taken over the years. Several of his large collage pieces will be included in this exhibition; the scale of which is very impressive. I am thrilled to be able to share his beautiful, intricate and timely artwork with this community.h
Born in Seattle, Washington, Nakashima has served as the William S. Morris Eminent Scholar in Art at ASU for the past five years, a position which expires June 30th. He is a painter/printmaker who has exhibited internationally and has works in art museums and private collections worldwide, including The Corcoran Gallery of Art and The Smithsonian.
Nakashima works in many different media. Many of his works are large scale, covering entire gallery walls, and are carefully gridded artworks composed of hundreds if not thousands of small bits of magazine pages, placed with a precise eye for color and shading to create a mosaic image with incredible depth and impact.
His works address complex, interconnected relationships through images that are representational at first glance, but become increasingly abstract and unknowable to the observant viewer.
The Augusta State Faculty exhibit features works in a large variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and photography, by Kristin Casaletto, Jackson Cheatham, Priscilla Hollingsworth, Alan C. MacTaggart, Philip Morsberger (Professor Emeritus and former Morris Scholar), Jennifer Onofrio, Raoul Pacheco, Brian Rust, and Janice Williams Whiting.
Nakashima will present a lecture about his work on Tuesday, September 21, 6:00 p.m., at The Hudgens. Meet the Japanese-American artist currently featured in the main gallery at The Hudgens, and learn about his artistic processes. Nakashima is the William S. Morris Eminent Scholar in Art at Augusta State University, and is a painter and printmaker who has exhibited internationally. Presented as part of the Gwinnett County Public Libraryfs new Fall into the Arts program, this lecture and reception is free and open to the public.
For more information about art exhibits, events, classes and summer camps at The Hudgens, please visit the website at www.thehudgens.org or 770-623-6002.
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