Two Japanese Students at Oregon State Symposium
KENTARO KOJIMA INTRODUCES KAMU AND KOICHIRO I visited my friend, Ida-sensei, at Zokei University (an art school in Tokyo) in November 2015, and while there he gave me an opportunity to do a seminar with his students. At the seminar, I found out that none of the seven or so students in their early twenties […]
Kazutaka Uchida: Life as an Artist
KAZUTAKA UCHIDA: Life As An Artist By Kentaro Kojima Kazutaka Uchida’s first catalyst for becoming a sculptor came fifty or so years ago. While walking through Auguste Rodin’s exhibition in the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, he came upon a piece called “La Pensee.” The piece was a pure white marble and depicted the […]