Press Release 2024/05/20

Summer Vacation Workshop at Hara Museum ARC
Let’s Make Art Fans! 2024

This summer, Hara Museum ARC will be holding two fan-making workshops using ``batik dyeing'' and ``tiedyeing” techniques, respectively.
Last summer, we offered a special workshop led by the artist Natsuki Otake (a native of Tomioka, Gunma) on
the making of fans using a wax-resist dyeing technique and special tools. Due to popular demand, we areinviting her back to offer the workshop again. Another workshop, our well-known “Let's Make Art Fans”
workshop involves soaking and folding of Japanese paper to create many colorful patterns, making it theeasier one popular with parents, children and friends. Everyone young or old can join in.
This summer, we hope that you will come to create and feel more at home with art. See you at the museum!

For those who want to dig deeper into fan-making
with the artist...

For those who want a looser experience sharedwith their parents, children or friends...

Let's Make Art Fans Using a Wax-Resist
Method!
Dye artist Natsuki Otake (a native of Tomioka,Gunma) has been invited to lead a workshop
on the making of a Japanese fan using a waxresist dyeing method.

Let's Make Art Fans!
Participants will fold Japanese paper, dye itwith beautiful colors and enjoy patterns thatemerge to produce one-of-a-kind originalfans.
Date & Time: Saturday, July 20, 2024 /Sunday, July 21, 2024
Three sessions per day: 10:00 / 13:00 / 15:00
Duration: approx. 40 min.
Venue: In the corridor at Hara Museum ARC
Target age: No age limit
Fee: 600 yen (cash only, admission fee notincluded)
Capacity: 10 people per session

Date & Time: Saturday, July 13, 2024 14:00 /Sunday, July 14, 2024 10:00 and 14:00
Duration: approx. 120 min.
Venue: In the corridor at Hara Museum ARC
Target age: Elementary school students andolder
Fee: 2,500 yen (cash only, admission fee notincluded)
Capacity: 6 people per session

Reservations will be acceptedfrom 10:00 on Saturday, June 8 by email.
Email: arc@haramuseum.or.jp

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*Participants will use scissors and an electric iron, so children younger than elementary school age should beaccompanied by an adult.
*For reservations made by email, confirmations will be made by return email from the museum.
*Priority reservations for museum members will be accepted from June 1. *Same-day participation will bepossible if there are vacancies.
Natsuki Otake
Born in Tomioka, Gunma, Natsuki Otake studied
design at the Graduate School of Art and Design at
Tama Art University. She had been exhibiting large
installation of silk fabric that she dyed using a
traditional wax-resist method and a special method toattach to walls when in 2010 she became a focus ofnationwide attention for work featured in a TVcommercial for Mode Gakuen. Her main theme
consists of "portraits of idols" that are projections of an idealized world in the form of a girl idol. She continues
to exhibit her work mainly in Gunma prefecture and frequently conducts related workshops. Her major solo
exhibitions include Natsuki Otake: Illuminated Girls at the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma in 2013, Natsuki
Otake Exhibition IDEA at the Tomioka City Museum of Art, Gunma in 2016 and Mount Penglai at Japan SilkVillage, Gunma in 2021. Her works were exhibited and sold at the Museum Shop's SHOP@CAFE Vol. 1
event in 2016.
Home page: https://bamboosummer.main.jp/

Concurrent Exhibition
A Shout Out for Art from the Center of Japan
Until September 8 (Sun.), 2024
Contemporary Art Galleries A, B, C, Kankai
Pavilion
Hara Museum ARC
2855-1 Kanai, Shibukawa-shi, Gunma
Hours: 9:30 am-4:30 pm（last entry at 4:00 pm）
Closed: Thursdays (except on holidays and the month of August)
Admission: General 1,800 yen (1,500 yen*), Students 1,000 yen (700 yen*) (high school and university) or 800yen (500 yen*) (elementary and junior high), Seniors (70 and above) 1,500 yen (1,200 yen*) *Online booking
price. For online discount tickets, go to https://www.e-tix.jp/haramuseum_arc/en/*Free for Hara Museum members / For residents of Gunma prefecture: Free admission for elementary andjunior high school children every Saturday during the school term. Special discounts are available.
Website: https://www.haramuseum.or.jp
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