Okayama's Yamada Bee Farm Hosts "Mitsubachi Arts Festival," Calling for Student Sculpture Submissions with Production Costs up to 3 Million Yen
Yamada Bee Farm's "Mitsubachi Arts Festival" is calling for student sculpture submissions, with selected works receiving up to 3 million yen in production costs.Summary
Yamada Bee Farm Co., Ltd. is holding an open call for student sculpture works for its art festival "Mitsubachi Arts Festival — Be(e) the Future: Drawing the Future of Life with Bees." The application period runs until November 30 at 23:59. The festival will take place from September 18 to November 23, 2027, at the Yamada Bee Farm grounds in Tomata District, Okayama Prefecture, with Yuko Hasegawa as art director. The open call is a student program that uses "bees" as a starting point to give form to new relationships with life and nature through sculpture. It is open to students and research students enrolled in universities, graduate schools, junior colleges, vocational schools, and high schools nationwide who are studying art, design, architecture, spatial direction, and related fields. Five works are planned to be selected, and site-specific sculptures aligned with the festival theme are sought. Selected works will receive a production commission fee of up to 3 million yen per work. The judges are Hideki Yamada, Yuko Hasegawa, Kohei Nawa, AKI INOMATA, Rihito Itagaki, Masami Sasaki, and Satoshi Gokita. The selection process has two stages: a document-based first screening and a final screening in Tokyo with models and presentations.
(Source：Tokyo Art Beat)