"Reborn-Art Festival x T Card" ~ Let's all make art ~ "Shell Object Table" art piece by children of Ishinomaki is completed!

2017.08.18 Press Releases
T Point Japan Co., Ltd.

　

T Point Japan Co., Ltd. (Head office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; President and COO: Kazuhiko Kitamura) is working on the "Reborn-Art Festival x T Card" as part of T Card's social value creation project, "T Card Everyone's Social Project"*1. We are pleased to announce that the art piece "Shell Object Table," created by children of Ishinomaki through this initiative, has been completed and installed at Oshika Village in the Oshika district of Ishinomaki, the venue for the Reborn-Art Festival (hereinafter "RAF").

The "Reborn-Art Festival x T Card" is an initiative that brings together not only adults but also children to participate in the RAF, a festival of art, music, and food, with the children taking the lead in creating artworks that are rooted in the local community and will serve as a source of regional revitalization for Ishinomaki in the future.

T Point Japan held a two-day art workshop for children on August 6th and 7th, 2017, where a total of 18 children from Ishinomaki, ranging from elementary school students to high school students, participated together with goen°, led by art director Chie Morimoto. On the first day, the participants created a "Shell Object Table" (60cm diameter) by freely combining seven objects made from seashells, driftwood, and other floating objects picked up from Shell Beach in Oshika Village on the Oshika Peninsula, forming them into a table top, and then pouring resin into it to harden it. On the second day, the participants worked on making curtains to be used on the "turrets used in Bon Odori festivals and other events." They completed four curtains measuring 1.5m in height and 3.7m in width, featuring various sea creatures, including sea squirts, a specialty of Ishinomaki, as well as octopuses, squid, and fish. This tower will be used for the Bon Odori festival that will be held during the RAF period.

For RAF's concept song "What is Art?", the prototype work created by children for the "Seashell Object Table" is used as the distribution jacket. This piece is a fish-shaped object made from seashells, discarded beverage containers, fishing ropes, and other driftwood found on the beach. It was chosen for the album cover as it matches the concept of the song, being "a work that combines natural and artificial objects, truly a 'What is Art?' piece."

T Point Japan aims to make T Points and T Cards "cultural infrastructure that connects people, and people and society," and will continue to work to create new social value.

"Reborn-Art Festival x T Card" project overview

Overview of "Reborn-Art Festival 2017"

Comment from Ms. Sakai (3rd year junior high school student), who created the artwork:

When I first picked up shells on the beach, I never imagined I would end up with a table like this. I had never really expressed myself before, so I had a lot of fun making it. I didn't think too much about the objects, just placed them however I liked and came up with ideas freely. I'm proud that what I've created will remain for a long time to come. I would be happy if many people could use it.

Comment from Ayaka Takeda (6th grade elementary school student), who created the artwork:

It was a lot of fun to do something I don't usually get to do. I've wanted to participate in the Reborn-Art Festival since last year, so I'm happy to be able to take part. I was surprised to see how everything I had made up until then would turn out.

*1 This initiative utilizes over 60 million T members, 170 T Point Alliance companies, and approximately 4 billion purchase data points provided by the T Card to solve social issues facing local communities and promote regional coexistence.

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"Reborn-Art Festival x T Card" ~ Let's all make art ~ "Shell Object Table" art piece by children of Ishinomaki is completed!

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