The President of NZU – Blogs

When I took a walk in the morning, I found flowers of plumed cockscomb. They have been popular in Japan for many years.

Then I prepared for my solo exhibition at Changchun University of Science and Technology in Jilin, China. I had many things to do for the exhibition, such as making credit title for 100 works, numbering all 100 works and packing them into three boxes.

I wanted to go home before sunset, but when I left the campus, it was already 7 PM

Cotton rosemallow is beautifully blooming in our campus.

Two skipper butterflies were visiting the flower for nectar.

I attended the faculty meeting at our campus at 2 PM. Then I went to the Doho Gakuen in Nagoya to attend another meeting. The meeting finished at 7:30 PM.

In the morning, I took a walk to the Tokugawa Art Museum.

The outer wall made of ceramic was beautiful.

Today was the day 2 of the AO exam. The campus was still hot like midsummer. I updated the president bulletin board. Our university’s activities are often mentioned in newspapers recently.I am proud of that. I introduced some articles about our university on the bulletin board.

The exam successfully ended at 4 PM.

I am going to have a solo exhibition at Changchun University of Science and Technology in Jilin, China, from September 19th. I had to choose my works for the exhibition. I finished choosing the works around 8:30 PM.

We had the Admission Office entrance examination (AO exam) today. There are two ways of assessment for the AO exam.

One is assessment by report. The other is assessment through workshop. Applicants have to attend workshop for two days. Applicants communicate with examiner, creating their works during the workshop. Then the examiner assesses applicants.

I have to stay at the office on the day of entrance examination just in case. Sometimes I visited the workshop during the examination. It was interesting that each course has different workshop and different atmosphere.

The examination successfully ended at 4 PM.

The president office has just renovated. I sorted all documents and things into necessary and unnecessary. I could not sort out everything, but I called it quits for today.

The sounds of insects were wonderful at our campus. Our campus fit to call itself “Biodiversity campus.”

I took a walk in the morning. Chinese tallow tree looked beautiful under the morning sunshine.

I found a lotus flower at a flower shop. We can enjoy the flower longer with this year’s hot whether.

I locked myself in the office today again. My work went smoothly. It was unusual.

At 3:30 PM, I had a meeting with Associate Professor Naoya Murata about the brochure for the declaration of the biodiversity campus.

At 4:30 PM, I visited the Nagoya City Museum to see the 48th Chubu Kokuten. Associate Professor Naohiko Watanabe, our students, and our graduates exhibited their works at the exhibition.

Then I went to the GLLERY APA to see the Hiroshi Yokochi’s exhibition. He has created his works under solidtheme.

Meanwhile, his works always include new part of hiscreation. This time, he took advantage of the gallery space to present his creations. Once I entered the gallery, I was drawn into Yokochi’s world.

Around 6PM, I attended the opening party of the above two exhibitions at the first floor of the GALLERY APA. I made a speech to convey my congratulation to them.

Then I attended the party of CBC club at a Japanese restaurant “Daijin.” There were several generations of people at the party. We could enjoy talking and drinking across the age boundary.

It was so hot at the campus. White flowers of Crape myrtles were blooming even on the extremely hot days.

I updated the president bulletin board for the first time in a while. I introduced newspaper articles about our students activities, such as the book design exhibition as a book store and our pottery club’s activities. Students will come back to school from next week.

In the afternoon, I was busy for getting everything back to the president room which has just finished renovation. After I did office work, I left the university around 6 PM.

Mr. Kiyoshi Inagaki, a president of Fubaisha, called me in the morning. Mr. Inagaki said that he want to award Fubaisha Award to our students for the Book design exhibition at a book store, “Chikusa Shobunkan Honten.“ The exhibition has showcased the books designed by the third-year students of our Visual Communication Design students. The exhibition was supposed to close on August 29th, but it will be extended until September 5th. Those good news made me so happy.

I went to the Space Prism at 1 PM and see the works of Ms.Tamami Kubota. While she won many prizes for tableau, this exhibition showcased 500 figures she created by hand. It was amazing that those 500 figures are all different shapes.

Then I got a good news again. Associate Professor Nobuyuki Takahashi told me that art for the hospital project, “Yasashii Bijutsu” will be televised nationwide. We also participated to the Setouchi International Art Festival 2010 with the project.

It will be broadcast on the following days: September 5th, Sunday, from 9 AM/8 PM on NHK educational station. September 26th, Sunday, from 1:50 AM to 2:20 AM on Nippon Television.

I worked as a Handa landscape advisor in the morning.

Then I went to the Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art to see Mr. Satoru Shoji’s exhibition. Photography is permitted only for two works exhibited at the lobby and restaurant.

I had seen his works for many years. The works at this solo exhibition were also impressive. Through the exhibition, I could see the future direction of his creation.

This exhibition started from today and will run until October 3rd. I want as many people as possible to visit the exhibition. If you were impressed by the Aichi triannale 2010, you must not miss this exhibition as well.

Chinese Trumpet Vines are blooming. This plant is native of China and flowers from June until summer. It was introduced to Japan in Heian period.

I locked myself in the office at the Takakita Design Institute all the day to design the brochure for the declaration of the biodiversity campus. I had to choose about 20 photos for the brochure from about 500 photos of plants and creatures which I introduced in my blog.  It was really hard task for me.

At 10 AM, I went to the Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery Yada to see the works by design course students of Nagoya City Industrial arts High school. The exhibition showcased the proper style of design. Even though they are living in a computer age, students seem to learn essential ingredients for design through their course.

Students also learn hand-drawing. It is important training for them before they start to use computer to create design.

Besides, students learn drawing as a part of preparation for university entrance exam. Some students participate in competition. Those are also important part of design education.