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' PhotograPh bY George Sakkestad
A piece of living art, creatpd by Hirokazu Kosaka, is on display at the Joan Pisani Community Center in
Saratoga. Nina Walker, the facilities coordinator for the Saratoga Recreation Department, flips through
the pages of the work on loan from Montalvo. The arts center also has pieces hanging at the Los Gatos
Putrlic Library.
Works of art go on the road, thanks
to a Montalvo Arts Center prograrn
By BnraN Baecocr
If the people won't go to the
Montalvo Arts Center, then Mon-
talvo will bring art to the people.
In an effort to be known as
something more than just "the
house on the hill," Montalvo has
its can really begun reaching out to the commu-
nity to let residents know that the
day! !... art center wants to be a part of
their lives.
you d,ry! The first step the nonprofit haS
taken is to hang works linked to a
larger exhibit at the arts center at
community gathering spots, such
as the Joan Pisani Community
lsse,Perlane Center in Saratoga and the Los
AcneScar
ThiOhteninO, Gatos Public Library.
I The first artist to participate in
this project is Hirokazu Kosaka,
!''t whose "Ruin Map" began showing
r on June 19 at the arts center as part
of the nonprofit's'AGENCYThe
Works of Artists" program.
Kosaka, the current visual arts
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e#1,cupertino;cAg50i4j'jjl a spiritual 1,000-mile Zen pilgrim-
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1973, Kosaka r.eturned to Los
Angeles,where he began creating
large-scale works of art with
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undertones from his Buddhist Walker. the facilities coordinator
teachings. for the Saratoga Recreation
For "Ruin Map," Kosaka went Department so excited.
back to a project he learned as a "When I'm sitting in my office,
third-grader in Japan.The students people come by all the time to take
were asked to go home and ask a look at it," she said."This one is a
their grandparents to draw map of particularly neat one because it's
their hometown. The idea was to
show how the towns had changed
over time as compared to how the
elders remembered them.
For his project, Kosaka For'RutnMop:
approached those 65 and olderin
the community and asked that they IHirokazu.]
draw, from memory, their child:
hood hometowns.The artist then Kosakawent back
went'back to his studio and trans-
formed a selection of the drawings to a project he
into traditional woodblock prints
that were then transferred onto learned as a
handmade rice paper, and finally
bound together as large books. third-grader
Those books are now on display
at the community center and
library, where people can touch
and interact with them. Lindsey an interactive piece. So you're
Wylie, mhnager of artistic pro-
grams at Montalvo,said the hope is
meant to flip it out and look at it
and touch it."
that these displays will lead people Walkersaid she was approached
back to the arts center: byWylie and jumped at the idea of
"How often can you go to a putting up Kosaka's piece in the
museum or arts center and touch-a
piece of artwork?" she said."Not
often."
community. center. Walker liked
the idea enough to ask Wylie if
That's exactly what has Nina G Page29
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