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NEW PEOPLE the Store
A lucky winner tried her luck on Ken Hamazaki’s “pink paint-roller lottery” and she won! Congratulations – she took home the exclusive hot pink painting and the proceeds of her victory will pitch to the pot of funds raised by Ken Hamazaki, the artist himself, to help recover the tsunami damaged area in Japan.
More winning paint-rollers are waiting for you to try your luck – and donate to the cause. Also – Ken Hamazaki t-shirts are available!
PiNCH to PiNK exhibition by Hechi-ken Hamazaki
Turning troubled times into hope for future
On March 11 2011, there was a very tragic disaster in Japan, the Great East Japan Earthquake happened. We send our deepest condolences to the people who were lost and people who have lost loved ones. During this difficult time in Japan, we find ourselves feeling that it’s maybe selfish and pointless to work on art projects. However, artist Hechi-ken Hamazaki wanted to create something that can change “a pinch” into “a pink” (the bright future). His friends started up the program called “Hope for Japan”. We are not sure how much help it can be with our art activities, but we will work on our art as charity projects, and hope that it will get practical use through the “Hope For Japan” program.
More about the artist:
With his shaved head, red body paint, and red costumes, Hechi-ken Hamazaki ( aka Ken Hamazaki) is known in Osaka’s Minami Senba district as “The Red Man.” When he was twenty years old, Hamazaki traveled to England and after returning to Japan, opened a gallery to display his artwork in 1992 in Osaka’s Higashi Shinsaibashi area. In 1997, he moved the gallery to Minami Senba, painted the exterior and interior completely red and named it the Ken Hamazaki Museum of Contemporary Art, a title that, in Japanese, has the aggrandizing secondary meaning of the Hamazaki Prefectural Museum of Contemporary Art. www.kenhamazaki.jp/e/index.htm
Monday, August 8
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In conjunction with the 3rd annual J-POP SUMMIT Festival, Piapro.jp is collaborating with Japantown of San Francisco. We had submissions from all over the world for Japantown’s street-banner design in the theme of “Hope for Japan’s Recovery.”
At the J-POP SUMMIT Festival 2011, we will sell goods with the chosen design to benefit Japan’s relief efforts. With the effort of Japantown and PIapro – the final design has been picked!
Check out the final design! >>
Also see all the other designs!
MIKU★USA Design Announcement coming very soon!
A Collaboration Project By Piapro x Japantown
Friday, June 24 – submission deadlines
★ Collaboration A ( check out current submissions! >>)
San Francisco Japantown’s Street Banner Design Submissions
★ Collaboration B ( check out current submissions! >>)
Hatsune Miku U.S. Version – New Character Design Submissions
Winners will receive a round-trip ticket from anywhere to San Francisco!
In conjunction with the 3rd annual J-POP SUMMIT Festival, Piapro.jp is collaborating with Japantown of San Francisco. With this spring’s earthquake tragedy still fresh in our minds, the J-POP SUMMIT Festival will incorporate multiple benefit events into the programming. Hatsune Miku has decided to join the festival this year to support this effort! In this event, we will be taking submissions of Japantown’s street-banner design in the theme of “Hope for Japan’s Recovery.” At the J-POP SUMMIT Festival 2011, we will sell goods with the chosen design to benefit Japan’s relief efforts. Also, we will be taking submissions for the new character design of “Hatsune Miku U.S. Version.” Please read the specifications carefully, then use your imagination to come up with the new Miku image!
How to Submit Your Design >>
Saturday, 6/18 – Saturday, 7/9
Auction during reception Saturday, 7/9
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SUPERFROG Gallery
Artist Yoshitaka Amano has donated three new brush works on canvas to be auctioned off for the tsunami and earthquake victims of Japan. (100% of the proceeds will be received by the Northern Japan Earthquake Relief Fund. http://jcccnc.org/) The three pieces will be auctioned on exhibition’s closing day.
More info about auction and reception on gallery page >>
About the artist and this exhibition:
Yoshitaka Amano: Monochrome & DEVA LOKA USA
A native of Shizuoka City, Japan, Yoshitaka Amano is best known for his character design for Final Fantasy video games and numerous Japanese hit TV cartoon series that sparked the imagination of youth in Japan and inspired a whole generation of artists who grew up watching his bold illustrations come to life. At the young age of fifteen, he started working as a character developer at Tatsunoko Productions and fifteen years later he left and became a freelance illustrator as well as an exhibiting artist.
For this U.S. exhibition, Amano has donated three new brush works on canvas “Monochrome I, II, & III” to be auctioned off on exhibition’s closing day for the tsunami and earthquake victims of Japan. (100% of the proceeds will be received by the Northern Japan Earthquake Relief Fund.) The three pieces combined with his DEVA LOKA* USA, a series of paintings Amano prepared as an ode to nfluences of 60’s and 70’s American pop culture, will be exhibited in this show.
*Deva Loka is an ancient Indian land of God, and is the theme that he has been able to unite all of his years of work under.
©2011 Yoshitaka Amano.
Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1
Time: 12:00pm-6:30pm
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New People 1st floor
CREATORS FOR JAPAN
Join us on the very last weekend in April and beginning of May at NEW PEOPLE’s first floor lobby to support the cause of artists crafts and bake sale to raise funds for Japan! Creators For Japan’s mission is to raise money through art and crafts sale for relief efforts to assist the victims of Japan’s catastrophic earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear emissions. Join us for a high quality handmade arts and crafts sale along with an amazing bake sale. All of our handmade and unique products are donated by talented creators all over the globe.
100% of all net proceeds will be donated to Artists Help Japan Fund with Mercy Corps.
Participating Creators:
Amaranthine
Carroll Clay Works
chibi.
dave marcoullier designs
little t design
mei
momojo
heartfish press
moln design
suga jewelry
takenomata
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