“Victory Bouquets” Art Installation Opens at Boston Children’s Museum
April 13, 2022
Exhibit Highlights Artwork Inspired by the Floral Arrangements Awarded to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in 2021
Boston Children’s Museum will open the Victory Bouquets art installation in the Japanese House Gallery on Wednesday, October 5.
The Victory Bouquets exhibit tells stories of joy, victory, and growth expressed from the perspective of young Japanese artists, celebrating both ordinary and extraordinary moments that form our world. This exhibit displays artworks created by a group of students and their teacher Minatsu Ariga of the Art Thinking project at Tohoku University of Art & Design (TUAD) in Japan.
Inspired by the floral arrangements awarded to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics 2021 medalists, the Art Thinking members created arts of floral images to tell stories of joyful moments, often expressing their gratitude, love, and friendship. The Museum’s young visitors exploring this exhibit will be prompted to reflect on their own lives by a question: If you have a flower bouquet, who would you want to give it to, to show gratitude, friendship, and to celebrate? They will have a chance to layer their own thoughts onto the exhibit’s artful stories, making emotional connections to young people who live far away.
The Victory Bouquets exhibit is the final of the annual collaboration project between TUAD and Boston Children’s Museum, which started in 2012. “The Museum expresses gratitude to our friends in Tohoku for bringing countless artworks to Boston and sharing their stories with Boston’s young people at the Museum for the past 10 years. While celebrating the achievements of our collaboration, we invite Museum visitors to join us in experiencing and appreciating this small but very special exhibit,” said Akemi Chayama, the Museum’s educator.
The Art Thinking project is part of TUAD’s school curricula and research to create a space for community building through art experience. Artists in this show are students from the Tohoku region of Japan, where many of them witnessed and experienced the loss of their people and communities during the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 2011. This project has been part of their healing and rebuilding process of themselves and their community as well as their learning to use artistic intelligence and talent in contributing to society, both local and international.
The Victory Bouquets installation will be open at Boston Children’s Museum through Spring 2023.
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