Event at the Donald Keene Center February 8, 2018

Takashimaya Exhibition

Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Mingei Takashimaya Department Stores, Japan 高島屋  用の美とこころ「民藝展」  

June 2017

Marty Gross visits the Leach Pottery and shows films to the current studio potters.  

Exhibition at Atelier Muji Tokyo, January~March 2017

                    http://www.muji.com/jp/events/5116/  

Events

The Film Compendium on the Japanese Mingei Movement  A presentation by Canadian film maker Marty Gross Monday 20 June 2016 6.45pm The Swedenborg Society 20-21 Bloomsbury Way (Hall entrance on Barter St) London WC1A 2TH The Japan…

The Art of the Potter

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Examining footage from "The Art of the Potter."

A visit to Duke University

LECTURE Marty Gross Film Producer and Director Film Archive to speak on the Mingei Potters of Japan Thursday, January 28, 2016 4:00–5:30 pm Center for Documentary Studies (1317 Pettigrew Street), Durham, NC Over the past 35 years,…

Documenting Mashiko in 1934

In this article in Impressions Magazine, Marty Gross recounts his first meetings with Bernard Leach and how Leach agreed to give him the original 16mm film he had made in Japan in 1934 and 1935. Download the article as a .pdf

Dialogues in Clay

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by Elaine Tierney | Victoria & Albert Museum This post was written by Susan Newell, a second-year student on the V&A/RCA MA in History of Design, who works part-time in the V&A’s Ceramics and Glass Department. A…

Leach Pottery Visit

Marty Gross gives an update on the Mingei Film Archive Project at the Leach Pottery. Images courtesy of the Leach Pottery. Photo by: Matthew Tyas.