2012 – Special Exhibit “You Are Not Alone” 私がそばにいるよ
2012 – Special Exhibit “You Are Not Alone” 私がそばにいるよ To commemorate the anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Rifu and surrounding communities in Northern Japan in 2011, young artists from Rifu and from the USA created and exchanged art pieces that illustrated aspects of their respective cultures that they particularly valued. The […]
2011 – Water: Values, Traditions, and Cultures
2011 – Water: Values, Traditions and Cultures ArtLink 2010-2011 Theme Assignment: Water and culture are inter-related. Specifically, we asked our participating young artists to choose something they particularly value in their culture and convey how water plays a major or minor part in how this value is carried out. This exhibition highlights the talents of […]
2010 – Expressions: Celebrating our Traditions and Values
2010 – Expressions: Celebrating Our Traditions and Values ArtLink 2009-2010 Theme Assignment: This year we asked our participating young artists to create a piece of art that illustrated, represented, or articulated a treasured tradition that is practiced in their homes, schools, places of worship, or communities. As the students thought about what tradition they wanted […]
2009 – Windows: Looking out, Looking in
2009 – Windows: Looking Out, Looking In ArtLink 2008-2009 Theme Assignment: For this year’s program, all participating young artists were asked to select the view from a window as the subject of their art pieces. It could be a window at home, at school, at a local store, in a church, in a bus, in a […]
2008 – Interact!
2008 – Interact! While everyone is alone at times, our day-to-day lives are usually carried out by our interacting with others in a shared activity. The physical and mental nature of these engagements and the effects we have on one another, reveal important aspects of our culture. For this year’s program, we asked all participating […]
2007 – Focusing in On Life
2007 – Focusing in on Life Instead of viewing life from a distance, we asked the young artists to zoom in to discover the fascinating details that make up their daily lives. They have come up with a variety of scenes featuring national, community, family, or even personal activities that are special to them. They […]
2006 – Capturing the Moment
2006 – Capturing the Moment Each young artist considered the variety of meaningful or culturally revealing events in his/her culture that might take place at a given hour of a day or night. The artist then selected one as the subject for his/her piece. Special assignment: Somewhere in the art itself or in the art […]
2005 – ARTifact
2005 – ARTifact We gave the following assignment to the young artists from around the world: Like Pompeii in Italy, imagine, without warning, a volcano erupted where your class lives and totally covered up all evidence of life. Then imagine, for whatever reason, the world forgot all about your community. One thousand years from now, […]
2004 – Traditions… Where I Come From
2004 – Traditions… Where I Come From Life is a unique journey for all of us. The people we meet, the places we go, and what we do in our lives is an ongoing life-long adventure. While we might not be sure what experiences lay ahead, we can be sure of where we’ve come from. […]
2003 – Putting Myself In The Picture Our World From My Perspective
2003 – Putting Myself in the Picture: Our World From My Perspective In our world today, TV, movies, and other mass media tend to magnify the importance of a few famous individuals (TV, music, and movie stars, sports personalities, government leaders, etc) over the rest of us. Sometimes we forget that each one of us […]
2002 – Illuminate! Bringing My Culture to Light
2002 – Illuminate! Bringing My Culture to Light In the dictionary, some of the definitions of “illuminate” include, “To provide or brighten with light, to make understandable, to clarify.” Light can reveal many fascinating aspects of one’s culture. Participating students were asked to highlight, using a source of illumination, an aspect of their culture which […]
2001 – Windows, A Look Into Our Lives
2001 – Windows, A Look Into Our Lives We asked young artists from around the world to share aspects of their culture in a creative way. They were first to choose a window found in their culture, and then paint or draw what they saw when looking through it. We encouraged them to feel free […]