直島の本村地区にある日本家屋の大広間を改装し、アート島センターとしてアートギャラリー、書店、スタジオが完成しました。An old house near on Naoshima has slowly transformed into the Art Island Center gallery, bookshop, and studio.
At the Critical Tourism Studies - Asia Pacific conference at Wakayama University, panelists from universities and institutions across Japan as well as the United States, Sweden, Denmark, and Hong Kong reached across geographies and disciplines to present a range of nuanced cases of art and tourism in rural places.
夏の暑さに耐えながらも直島の若いアーティストたちは、絵の具で手や足を使って、海の生き物や子どもたちの思う「直島」を描きました。Braving the summer heat, Naoshima’s young artists used their hands, feet, and buckets of paint to illustrate their vision of the surrounding seascape and landscape.
Naoshima Art Clubとは、直島在住もしくは直島付近に住むアートが好きな人の集まりです。月に2回ほど集まりドローイング、クロッキーやデッサンをして楽しみながらスキルアップに励んでいます。Naoshima Art Club is a group of people who live on or near Naoshima and share a love of art. Members get together about twice a month to have fun and improve their skills, primarily in drawing.
"It would be prudent to notice the things being born and disappearing right in front of us, and collect those for the future." Artist Motoyuki Shitamichi discusses his multi-year project on Naoshima and his approach to photography, research, and local knowledge.
