[{"content":"I am an artist and teacher. Here I post about ideas abut the city, art, education and other stuff.\n","date":"25 July 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/","section":"","summary":"","title":"","type":"page"},{"content":"","date":"25 July 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/","section":"Posts","summary":"","title":"Posts","type":"posts"},{"content":"This is a blog about various crap.\n","date":"25 July 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/bloggins/","section":"Posts","summary":"","title":"Ramblings","type":"posts"},{"content":"","date":"24 July 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/architecture/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Architecture","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"24 July 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Categories","type":"categories"},{"content":"","date":"24 July 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/city/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"City","type":"categories"},{"content":"This is a post about a building.\n","date":"24 July 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/second-post/","section":"Posts","summary":"","title":"My second post","type":"posts"},{"content":"","date":"24 July 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags","type":"tags"},{"content":"I am richard williams\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/about/","section":"","summary":"","title":"","type":"page"},{"content":"Art\nTo see my artwork please visit: https://www.richardgwilliamsart.com\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/art/","section":"","summary":"","title":"","type":"page"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/art/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Art","type":"categories"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/art/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Art","type":"tags"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/authors/","section":"Authors","summary":"","title":"Authors","type":"authors"},{"content":" Ebisu Bunkasai children\u0026rsquo;s art workshop # November 27, 2015 My first workshop. A step into the unknown; not knowing who would turn up or how the final painting would turn out. Fortunately I had great support from Sachiko and Atsuko Shintani and Natsuko Funakoshi at all stages from planning, getting hold of materials and translating.\nAs a local artist I had been asked to hold a workshop at the annual Ebisu Bunkasai (culture festival) The idea was to present some of my own paintings then work with the children to collaboratievly produce a large landscape painting of Ebisu.\nThe workshop was aimed at elementary school age children. There was a reasonable turnout of children accompanied by parents and grandparents who were happy to join in.\nAfter a brief outline of the workshop plan and presentation of my work I elicited some features of the surrounding landscape by drawing pictures on the whiteboard. We then asked children and adults, in groups, to draw small pictures of as many things that they could remember seeing on their way to the workshop that day. After a few minutes we collected the ideas together, writing ideas on the whiteboard. We explained that we would have to divide up the words between the groups to ensure that we could include everything in the final picture. We then asked groups to choose at least two words to draw until they were all taken. We outlined a few guides for the drawings such as using all of the space on the paper and avoiding too much time consuming detail then set everyone off drawing. We stopped everyone after about thirty minutes then started cutting out the pictures and glueing them onto the canvas. when all of the drawings had been stuck on we demonstrated that all of the blank canvas needed to be filled. There was some creative use of the rollers to paint roads and railway lines and a few embelisments to the sky such as a rainbow and UFU.\nI was pleased to see how the final image worked out.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/ebisu_workshop/","section":"Posts","summary":"","title":"Ebisu workshop","type":"posts"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/emacs/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Emacs","type":"tags"},{"content":"The Land art syllabus is an art based English syllabus that I designed and taught at Morimura Gakuen elementary \u0026amp;nbsp;school from 2011 to 2015.\u0026amp;nbsp; The Land art syllabus is an art based English syllabus that I designed and taught at Morimura Gakuen elementary school from 2011 to 2015.\nLearning to describe artworks Learning to describe artworks The children learn about the work of British land artist Andy Goldsworthy. They look at photos of his work and extracts of the film Rivers and Tides and learn the English to describe aspects of the works such as nature nouns, colour, texture, size, shape and prepositions of place.\nIn this photo one child is describing an artwork whilst the others guess which picture it is.\nDesigning an artwork Designing an artwork The children think of ideas for possible artworks within the limitations of available time and materials then choose one design to build.\nCollecting materials Collecting materials The children have to build their artwork using only natural materials and within the worthy minutes of the lesson. They need to organise themselves as a group to collect materials.\nCollecting materials Collecting materials Making the artwork Making the artwork Work in progress Work in progress Finished artwork Finished artwork The children write a description of their artwork in their groups using language that they studied earlier in the course. When it\u0026rsquo;s been checked they practice and give a \u0026amp;nbsp;presentation of their artwork to the class which they record and publish The children write a description of their artwork in their groups using language that they studied earlier in the course. When it\u0026rsquo;s been checked they practice and give a presentation of their artwork to the class which they record and publish on a website.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/mm_land_art/","section":"Posts","summary":"","title":"Land art","type":"posts"},{"content":" Video embed # This is a demonstration of how to embed video from youtube.\nHere is the video # photo # ","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/fourth-post/","section":"Posts","summary":"","title":"My fourth post","type":"posts"},{"content":"Nomad art is a project which began with myself and Stephane Leroux transporting our paintings across Tokyo by public transport to an exhibition. We started early that morning but realised that we would be hitting peak commuting time. With time to spare we decided to wait with our work at each station where we transferred. We had been discussing ways to open up public space to use for art but in a way that would not lead to confrontations with any authorities. https://www.facebook.com/Tokyo-Nomad-Art-427939034024755/timeline/\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/nomad/","section":"Posts","summary":"","title":"Nomad Art","type":"posts"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/series/","section":"Series","summary":"","title":"Series","type":"series"},{"content":" Why # enshitification of social media and desire to gain more control over my own tech. This has involved a move to linux then emacs slow going from a non-technical background squarespace fee ","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/blog_set-up/","section":"Posts","summary":"","title":"Setting up blog","type":"posts"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/tech/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Tech","type":"categories"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/tech/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tech","type":"tags"},{"content":" June 12, 2019 The “Ballet” of Shibamata Shinshōkai Street observation in Shibamata # The Ballet of Shibamata Shinshōkai aims to look at how art, urban research, history and community can come together to collectively approach issues of urban life.\nThe starting point is the metaphor of a “ballet” that the writer Jane Jacobs used to describe the daily rhythms, flows and interactions of Hudson Street in New York where she lived in the 1950s\nThe exhibition will begin with sketches of the buildings on Shinshōkai street where Gallery 485 is located.. Visitors are invited to contribute by adding information to the walls with the aim of building up an idea of the history, social life, infrastructure of the street and its place in Tokyo.\nWorkshops and exhibition texts will present some approaches to understanding urban life by artists and thinkers and invite visitors to explore these ideas in the context of understanding Shinshōkai.\n“バレー”柴又親商会\n柴又におけるストリート観察\n”バレー”柴又親商会の展示の目的は、いかにして芸術、都市研究、歴史そしてコミュニティーが一体となることによって都市の生活というものにどのようなアプローチをしているのかを観察することにあります。\nことの始まりはジェーン・ジェイコブスという作家が 1950 年代に彼女の住んでいたニューヨークのハドソン通りの日常のリズムや流れ、そして関わりあいを”バレー”という言葉を比喩として用いたのが始まりであります。 この展示会始まりはギャラリー４８５のある親商会の通りをスケッチすることから始まりました。観客自身がギャラリーの壁にざまざまな独自の情報をつけ加えていくことによってこの展示は成立していくのです。東京、柴又の歴史や生活や通りの役割そして商店街における存在意義というものを。 ワークショップと解説はアーティストらや観客たちによって理解されている現代の生活へのアプローチを示しているつもりです。そして展覧会へ訪れる人たちを現在の親商会への理解を深める世界へといざなうものだと確信しております。\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/shibamata_ballet/","section":"Posts","summary":"","title":"The Ballet of Shibmata Shinhsokai exhibition at Atelier 485 Shibamata","type":"posts"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/video/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Video","type":"tags"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/workshops/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Workshops","type":"tags"}]