ĦMashiko International Ceramic Festival 2006

We are currently in the process of organizing the Mashiko International Ceramic Festival 2006, to be held in Mashiko in May of this year. We have nicknamed it M.I.C.Fes. This stands for both Mashiko International Ceramic festival as well as the theme, Mashiko Inspires Clay Future.

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M.I.C.Fes is an event for 16 ceramic artists from around the world, and 5 from Mashiko, to combine their skills and artistic sensibilities with Mashiko clay and materials to create work and fire it in a Noborigama patterned after the kiln of Shoji Hamada.
  Date
15th May  to  3rd June  2006
with group exhibition for 2 weeks starting June 3.
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  Place


Mashiko Messe Ceramic Art Museum Mashiko, Japan
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Four artist from each of the following areas;
America, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and Mashiko

Supporting members  

          and organizations
Tochigi Cultural Association
Tochigi Ceramic Technical Assistance Center
Mashiko Town
Mashiko Board of Education
Mashikoyaki Cooperative Store
Mashiko Town Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Shimotsuke Newspaper
Moka Newspaper



Mashiko Inter-area Exchange Liaison
Mashiko Tourist Association
Mashiko ceramic art club
The Tsukamoto Corporation
The Shimaoka Pottery
Mashikoyaki Kyohan Center

Sponsored by  

The Mashiko International Ceramic Festival Committee
with the cooperation of
Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art / Ceramic Art Messe Mashiko
The Mashiko International Ceramic Festival 2006 Committee
Forest Mashiko 4231 Mashiko,
Mashiko-machi, Haga-gun Tochigi-ken, Japan
 e-mail: m.i.c.fes.2006@apost.plala.or.jp
http://www17.plala.or.jp/mashiko9/eng/