Brief Message from the Organizers of
the “Shinbism 6 Exhibition --
Artists Selected from the Shinshu Museum Network”

Shinshu Arts Council (Nagano Prefectural Cultural Promotion Foundation, Arts Council Promotion Bureau) in cooperation with the Nagano Prefectural Government, is going to host the sixth art exhibition, “Shinbism 6,” jointly planned and produced by not only curators from public and private institutions, but also freelance curators having various backgrounds in the prefecture. Shinshu Arts Council, which started in 2022, has achieved the first milestone of three years of activities, overcoming natural disasters and pandemic. We would like to express our deepest gratitude once again to those who have carried out our cultural and artistic activities in Nagano Prefecture, and also to those who have supported us for their support with their strong desire to hand down their cultural arts and local culture to the next generation.
Meanwhile, Shinbism, as a project of Regional Creation and Exchange Program by Shinshu Arts Council, featuring group exhibitions dealing with works by artists connected to Shinshu, has focused on activities to spread arts from museums to local communities, including the production of artworks through artist-in-residence research in the host cities and towns, environmentally friendly production of works of art, as well as environmentally friendly utilization of display furniture, collaboration with other organizations, such as National gallery of fine arts of Sweden, Dai Nippon Printing Co.,Ltd. and Museum Lab Co., Ltd., training on providing reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, and dissemination of the “Art Appreciation through Dialogues” in elementary and junior high schools in the prefecture, based on the “Learning Promotion Project utilizing Arts.” And this year, with the overall theme, “Region and Art,” we will try to hold group shows at three venues in the prefecture, satellite small exhibits in two areas, and drive forward the School Partnership Project in the Art Museum of Yasuoka School in Yasuoka Village, that is unusual throughout the nation.
Returning, once again, to the three missions that Shinshu Arts Council established: “raising the creativity and transmission power of cultural and artistic activities throughout Nagano Prefecture,” “spreading the potential of cultural and artistic activities to various areas of society,” “nurturing an environment for sustainable progress of cultural and artistic activities within the prefecture,” this year, Shinbism will be addressing head-on the second mission, “spreading the potential of cultural and artistic activities to various areas of society.”
It’s not easy to see results, however, for these three years, we have witnessed the scenes where culture bearers met each other and new communities were born one after another, having been triggered by the activities of the Arts Council. As for the Shinbism project, we will work hard together with the members of the working group, so that we can expand the potential of cultural and artistic activities into various areas, including education, welfare, regional development and tourism, while accumulating new encounters and episodes with participating artists, school teachers, people from related organizations and local supporters.
We would like to express our gratitude for everyone’s support and cooperation toward the materialization of this Shinbism project, and sincerely appreciate your continued support in the future.

Representative of the Organizers,
Director of the Shinshu Arts Council Tsumura, Takashi