The Mashiko Museum Residency Program was launched in May 2014 with the aim of promoting exchange between Mashiko Town and artists from Japan and overseas, and sharing Mashiko's pottery (craft) culture.
In 1920, Shoji Hamada went to St Ives, the United Kingdom, with Bernard Leach and set up a pottery. The exchange between Mashiko and St Ives has been fostered since then.
The two towns concluded the Friendship City Agreement in 2012. To promote further exchange, Mr. Minoru Otsuka, a benefactor from Mashiko, contributed to the Mashiko Museum Residency Program. With his contributions, the Mashiko Arts & Crafts Residence was built in March 2014.
“I hope the Mashiko Arts & Crafts Residence will be an incubator helpful for further developing the Mashiko wares, thereby making them the widly-recognized pottery among the artists all over the world”.
Minoru Otsuka
The Founder of Otsuka corporation
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Mashiko Arts & Crafts Residence
(in Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art)
3021 Mashiko, Mashiko-machi
Haga-gun, Tochigi
TEL：+81(0)285-72-7555
Email：residence@mashiko-museum.jp
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