Image: Aomori Museum of Art
The Aomori Museum of Art has announced that its exhibition 'コスモスの咲くとき －地域に学び、平和を刻む教育版画の”いま”' has been preserved and published in ART360°, the exhibition VR archive project. The museum’s post highlights the online access at a time when many people are reflecting on peace, and invites viewers to look through the show via the archive link.
According to the ART360° exhibition page, 'コスモスの咲くとき' runs from 15 November 2025 to 12 April 2026 at the Aomori Museum of Art in Aomori, Japan. The project is framed as a museum exhibition that revisits educational printmaking in the context of community learning and peace, drawing attention to children’s engagement with printmaking as a form of learning together with others.
The exhibition begins from the prewar work of Ōta Kōshi, identified on the site as a printmaker and educator who led the postwar educational printmaking movement, as well as from blacked-out textbooks. It then centers on educational print works made in Aomori Prefecture from the 1950s to the 1990s, drawn from Ōta’s former collection and the holdings of the Goshogawara City Board of Education. The archive page says these works are presented as part of a broader exhibition structure that links local study, creative practice and reflections on peace.
The exhibition also incorporates a reprinting of the 30-metre-long print picture scroll '車力農業史', along with the collective activities of A3BC, described on the page as engaging in printmaking as an act of resistance. The project further includes the present-day exchange of print works among children across national borders, bringing together historical material and current practice within one exhibition.
The museum’s announcement says the show offers a way to think about peace through the printmaking of children after the war, and to encounter the relationship between regional learning and creative work. The ART360° page presents the exhibition as a project by the Aomori Prefectural Museum of Art, and credits Okuwaki Takahiro, a curator at the museum, with planning.
Listed artists on the archive page include A3BC, Ōta Kōshi, Käthe Kollwitz, Kon Junzo, Sakamoto Kokuro, Shima Yuzo, Shoji Tokiji and Suzuki Kiyoharu. The exhibition is shown in gallery spaces M, L, J and I at the Aomori Museum of Art, with the archived version now available through ART360°.
