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Challenge Art Festival in Tsukuba Shows that with Art, There Really Are No Limits (thru Sunday March 14th)
15 March, 2021
The theme of this year`s Challenge Art Festival featuring works created by the physically/mentally disabled in Tsukuba is “Amazing Limitlessness” – and that is really what one feels while exploring the galleries at the Tsukuba Art Museum during the show (which runs through 3 PM on Sunday March 14th)
By Avi Landau
Ideally, an art exhibition should excite and delight, thrill and chill, stimulate and fascinate – and of course, get you to think about all sorts of things. The 20th Challenge Art Festival exhibit at the Tsukuba Art Museum succeeds in delivering on all these counts and has had me coming bad on several consecutive days for multiple viewings of these works – all created (you might or might not be surprised) at the 2 dozen or so different facilities around Tsukuba which are dedicated to the care of the mentally and or physically disabled.