Takashi Itagaki
President of Shakai no Kusuri Research Institute • Art Director of Rumbini Art Museum
After studying the cognitive function of the brain and switching to copperplate engraving, Itagaki joined Runbini-en, a disabled support facility, in 1998. He is fascinated by the formative arts of the people who live there and since then has continued to work on supporting their formative expressions at various welfare facilities. Since 2007, he has been an art director at the Runbinii Art Museum. In 2020, he established the Shakai no Kusuri Research Institute of which he is the CEO. He is a director of Connected Ink Village. His favorite musicians are THE ELEPHANT KASHIMASHI, Gustav Mahler, Dimitri Shostakovich and Hiroko Taniyama.
Satoru Kobayashi • Atelier Mayura of Rumbini Art Museum
Tomoya Kikuchi • Japan Philharmonic Orchestra
Dr. Yuri Tanaka • Tokyo University of the Arts
Pavle Dinulović • University of Arts in Belgrade
Dr. Umut Kose • CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire)