Speakers & Sponsors
Pacific Rim Guest Lecture Series
Courses at Tama Art University
At TAU, Art Center students have the opportunity to attend special classes with themes that connect to the Pacific Rim project and to Japanese culture.
- Banana Textile: Sustainable Textile Design
- Faculty: KASHIWAGI Ko, ASANO Yasuhiro
Students carry out research into banana fiber and pursue its potential for product design. Students work on the entire process from the undeveloped fiber — a waste product of the banana growing industry — to finished textile and paper. 
- Media Art
- Faculty: MIKAMI Seiko, KUWAKUBO Ryota, ICHIKAWA Sota
Students create interactive objects and learn to assemble and program electronic devices. 
- Japanese
- Faculty: IKEDA Reiko
Special Seminars and Cultural Field Trips
These seminars and field trips, lead by TAU faculty, expose Art Center students to an extraordinary range of Japanese arts and culture, from the traditional to the contemporary.
- Japanese Animation: a rare form of artistic expression
- Faculty: KATAYAMA Masahiro
- Honda's Design Philosophy: from the first Civic to today
- Faculty: IWAKURA Shinya
- Visit to Kamakura: ancient capital of Japan
- Faculty: SEITA Yoshihide, President of TAU
- Visit to Koizumi House, a traditional farmhouse (Minka) constructed in 1878
- Faculty: KISHIMOTO Akira
- Japanese Garden
- Faculty: MASUNO Shunmyo
An intensive series of guest presentations made possible with generous support from the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education by experts in lighting design, interactive art, and solar technology.