The Osaka Prefecture Enokojima Culture and Arts Creation Center (commonly known as enoco) continuously implements programs aimed at passing on and developing art to the next generation, as well as collaborating with young artists based in the Kansai region.
The "Children's Arts College 2025 Exhibition" showcases the results created by children through the experiences of "thinking" and "making" across all four programs held during the 2025 fiscal year.
The theme for the 2025 fiscal year is "Expanding Through Communication."
The artworks were born from various interactions with things and people, such as creating while thinking of someone, or shaping forms while consulting with peers. The completed works overflow with the children's wonderful individuality.
At the venue, works by the artists who served as instructors for each session will also be displayed, allowing visitors to see what kind of thinking and techniques the children encountered and how they developed them into their artwork.
Programs Held During the 2025 Fiscal Year
Session 1 (Held October 2025)
Ayami Nagata | Visual Artist
"Wrapping Thread Around Clothes You Can't Wear Anymore: Bumpy, Fluffy, Create Your Own 'Clone'!"
Using clothes they no longer wear, children wrapped various threads around them while recalling memories from when they wore them. Moving their hands as if having a conversation with their past selves, they created mysterious-shaped "clones."
Session 2 (Held November 2025)
Yuka Nomura | Three-Dimensional and Installation Artist
"Let's Create Magical Tools to Give as Gifts!"
While thinking of family members, friends, or pets to give presents to, children created one-of-a-kind magical tools that would delight or surprise them. By cutting paper to make it three-dimensional and painting it with colors, heartfelt magical tools were completed.
Session 3 (Held December 2025)
Kai Sakamoto | Ceramic Artist
"Clay Moves on Its Own!? Let's Make Claymation!"
Children stepped on clay, kneaded it, stretched it, and created a "town" while consulting with each other. Buildings and roads appeared one after another as if the landscape was changing, and they captured the transforming clay town with stop-motion photography to create a video work.
Session 4 (Held January 2026)
Yuki Hasegawa | Painter
Referencing the many leaves found in nature, children learned about colors and challenged themselves to create their own unique colors by mixing paints. They painted paper with paint to create leaves and made original branches. At the exhibition, everyone's branches will come together to form a single tree.
Exhibition Details
Dates: March 14 (Saturday) to April 5 (Sunday), 2026
Hours: 10:30 AM to 6:00 PM (until 1:00 PM on the final day)
Closed on Mondays
Venue: enoco 1st Floor, Room 4
Admission: Free
Venue & Organizer: Osaka Prefecture Enokojima Culture and Arts Creation Center [enoco]
Address: 2-1-34 Enokojima, Nishi-ku, Osaka City, Osaka 550-0006
Phone: 06-6441-8050
FAX: 06-6441-8151
Email: art@enokojima-art.jp
enoco Website: https://www.enokojima-art.jp/
Access: From Awaza Station on the Osaka Metro Chuo Line, exit 8, approximately 150m west (3-minute walk)
*If you require special accommodations due to disabilities or other needs, please contact enoco.
Exhibition Period Event
Workshop: "Let's Create Sky Colors and Paint Together!"
Content:
Create crayons in the color of the sky you want to see with your loved ones. With the crayons you made, let's paint the sky while talking with everyone.
The artworks created by everyone will be displayed in the enoco 1st Floor Collection Gallery until April 5 (Sunday) after the program ends.
Date: March 15 (Sunday), 2026, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM (production ends at 3:30 PM, display and installation completed by 4:00 PM)
Location: enoco 2nd Floor, Room 8
Instructor: Nozomi Murata, Visual Artist
Capacity: 15 participants (reservation required, first-come, first-served basis)
Eligibility: Elementary school students
Participation Fee: ¥500 (tax and materials included) *Payment in cash at the venue reception on the day
Registration Starts: February 8 (Sunday), 2026, 10:00 AM *Registration closes when capacity is reached
Registration Method: Apply through the enoco HP Children's Arts College 2025 Exhibition website.
Registration URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/174xxXZ4b3Eaj0PACpOjD8iYP1mcIe4jLbKr36KzFZAY/edit
Children's Arts College 2025 Exhibition Website: https://www.enokojima-art.jp/artscollege2025exhibition
