Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize Recipients Announced.

On March 12, the Agency for Cultural Affairs announced the recipients of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize for the fiscal year 2009. The recipients of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize were sculptor NAGASAWA Hidetoshi (for his expiation titled ‘NAGASAWA – Dove tende aurora’) and nihonga artist YAMAMOTO Naoaki (for his exhibition titled ‘Yamamoto Naoaki ten: Kikan suru fūkei’) in the Fine Arts category; and FUJIHATA Masaki, Professor, Department of Inter Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts, (for his work titled ‘Simultaneous Echoes 2009: “Field-work” in Londonderry’) in the Media Art category. The recipients of the Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists were photographer TSUDA Nao (for his exhibition titled ‘Rera Faraway’) in the Fine Art Category; and IWAKIRI Shinichirō, Professor, Bunka Junior College, (for his monograph titled ‘Meiji hangashi’) in the Criticism category. (Japanese)