Past events
International Symposium: Perspectives on Art Education in Primary and Early Childhood 2026
Saturday. 6 June 2026
17:00 pm - 21:00 pm (Japan Standard Time/ GMT+9) | Online via Zoom
The International Symposium on Perspectives on Art Education in Primary and Early Childhood is a global forum focused on the transformative impact of art education on young learners’ creativity, critical thinking, and emotional development. It provides a collaborative space for educators, researchers, students, and practitioners to share innovative practices, research, and strategies that enhance teaching and learning in primary and early childhood contexts. We particularly also welcome contributions that are grounded in Art Education in Primary and Early Childhood but extend beyond conventional school-based frameworks, opening up discussions around community art, participatory practices, and contemporary approaches to making and learning through art.
Partnerships events
NEW WORLD: Art, Welfare, and the City Interact
Mon 13 Feb 2026 - Mon 16 Mar 2026, Hiroshima, Japan
NEW WORLD: Art, Welfare, and the City Interact is an exhibition of artworks by artists with disabilities that explore new possibilities in places where various boundaries intersect. After touring Seoul and Tokyo, the exhibition will take place in Hiroshima, using multiple shops in the Yokogawa shopping district as its stage. We hope that the exhibition will create a multi-layered intersection of everyday life and artwork, welfare and art, the city and expression, Japan and Korea, and people and people, fostering an exchange of perspectives that transcends boundaries.
Art Making Futures 2025: A Symposium on Art Making, Creative Practice, and Community Artworks Across Education
Saturday 14 December 2025
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm (Japan Standard Time) UTC/GMT +9, Online event
The Art Making Futures Symposium 2026 is a practitioner-focused international gathering dedicated to exploring art making in its broadest, most inclusive sense. From K–12 classrooms to community workshops, vocational studios, university programs, and informal learning spaces, the symposium invites educators, artists, researchers, and students to examine the many ways artworks emerge, evolve, and engage communities. The symposium centres practical art making, process-driven creativity, and community engagement, offering a space to rethink how artworks are taught, created, shared, and valued across diverse learning contexts.
International Symposium on Art Education in Higher & Vocational Teaching 2025
Saturday 10 October 2025
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm (Japan Standard Time) UTC/GMT +9, Online event
International Symposium on Art Education in Higher & Vocational Teaching 2025 (CANVAS 2025) s an international symposium designed to bring together artists, educators, researchers, and students across the university and VET sectors to explore how art education can shape a future of creativity, collaboration, and career readiness. The name CANVAS reflects the symposium’s mission: to offer a shared creative space where new ideas can be “painted,” networks can be formed, and future-ready pathways for learners can be imagined.
Partnerships events
NEW WORLD: Seeing the World through the Lens of Art and Disability
Tuesday 24 – Monday 29 June 2025 | Shibuya Hikarie 8/CUBE, Tokyo
NEW WORLD: Seeing the World through the Lens of Art and Disability is an exhibition that explores new possibilities at the intersections of diverse boundaries. It shines a light on disabled artists who speak to the world through original perspectives in the multidimensional spaces “in between”: between disability and non-disability, between art and education, between Korea and Japan. Their candid self-expression is both a quiet resistance to unnecessary divisions born of “difference” and an open invitation to co-create a new world rooted in coexistence.
International Symposium: Perspectives on Art Education in Community and Lifelong Learning Settings 2025
Saturday 12 April 2025
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm (Japan Standard Time) UTC/GMT +9, Online event
The International Symposium on Perspectives on Art Education in Community and Lifelong Learning Settings 2025 will bring together educators, researchers, and community practitioners worldwide to explore the dynamic role of art education in fostering creativity, social engagement, and personal growth across diverse ages and contexts.
Collaboration events
Tenowaichi 2025: Cyanotype prints making
Sunday 20 April 2025 | Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi Kokubunji Park, Japan
Tenowaichi 2025 community festival was held at Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi Kokubunji Park, organised by the park management (Musashino no Koen Partners). We collaborated with the local vegetable initiative “Kokuvege” to create cyanotype prints using fresh local vegetables.
International Symposium on Perspectives on Art Education in Primary and Early Childhood 2025
Saturday 15 February 2025, 1:00 pm-4:00 pm, Online event via zoom
The International Symposium on Perspectives on Art Education in Primary and Early Childhood has successfully concluded, with participants from Australia, South Korea, China, and Japan. The event fostered valuable exchanges of ideas and research on the transformative role of art education in developing creativity, critical thinking, and emotional growth in young learners. We thank all attendees for making this symposium a success.
Partnerships events
NEW WORLD
Sun, 4 Jan 2025 - Thu, 12 Mar 2025, Hanyang University, Seoul
NEW WORLD is an exhibition that explores new possibilities at the intersection of various boundaries. In the multidimensional space between disabled and able-bodied, art and education, and Korea and Japan, we shine a spotlight on up-and-coming artists with disabilities who speak to the world through their unique perspectives…