I am pleased to announce that every sprout has now been fostered in “Miraime Fostering Project,” an installation of 300 sprouts to raise money to support artist projects within areas impacted by the 2011 earthquake in Japan. Thank you to everyone who purchased a sprout to join and support the program. The project was launched from Maebashi City as a response to the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake. The project stems from the work “Minding My Own Business,” a work with 300 shoot sprouts cut from the Jomo newspaper and laid out on seven days of newspapers following the earthquake attack in Japan on March 11th, 2011. The new sprouts grow from the tragic stories. A network of concerned citizens formed in Maebashi City in 2011 to consider how to support those affected by the earthquake through art. Artists, designers, journalists, scholars and acquaintances gathered and assembled ideas on how we could communally collect money to aid those impacted while also donating this work as a gift to the city’s first municipal museum. We decided on a fostering project, where each sprout in the newspaper installation could be individually fostered to raise money to fund artist projects supporting the earthquake site and victims. Since then, some of the funds raised have supported GBFund (The Great East Japan Earthquake Restoration Fund, Association for Corporate Support of the Arts) and art-related projects at the earthquake site. The fostered installation of 300 sprouts is also now part of the Arts Maebashi Museum collection. I want to express my gratitude to Ms. Mieko Nakajima and Mr. Toshihiro Fukunishi, who have been supporters since the beginning, and to the other members of the Miraime Project for their passion and efforts in promoting the sprouts. Additionally, thank you to all the curatorial professionals from Arts Maebashi who have always been close supporters. Most of all, I would like to express my great gratitude and embracement to Mr. Toru Terasawa, who was the heart of the Miraime Project. Mr. Terasawa demonstrated how an art project from Maebeashi city could contribute to social welfare. Not only leading with the social media and design, Mr. Terasawa developed the project idea to allow this work to function as both artwork and aid for the community. Once again, thank you to everyone who now owns a sprout to support this project and future projects. https://facebook/mirainome?fref=pb&hc_location=profile_browser
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 17:26:37 +0000
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