{"id":6307,"date":"2020-11-11T18:10:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T09:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.a-i-t.net\/?post_type=team&#038;p=6307"},"modified":"2023-06-03T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T00:00:00","slug":"roger-mcdonald","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.a-i-t.net\/en\/team\/roger-mcdonald\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger McDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><strong>Indipendent Curator, Program Director of AIT TOTAL ARTS STUDIES<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Tokyo, Japan. Educated in England from childhood. Studied at Canterbury Kent University, where he majored in Mysticism, also completing his PhD there with Professor Roger Cardinal (\u2018Outsider Art, 1972). After returning to Japan in 1998, he worked as an independent curator and taught as a part-time lecturer at art universities in Japan and abroad from 2000 to 2013. In 2010, he moved to Saku, Nagano. He opened Fenberger House in 2014 and serves as its Director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He founded MOACA&nbsp; in 2019, a citizens climate change initiative that raises awareness through talks and school visits in the Saku area. He organizes lectures and discussion events on the climate crisis and adaptation. Curator of the \u201cMuseum of Together\u201d exhibition (2017, organized by the Nippon Foundation DIVERSITY IN THE ARTS); program director of TOTAL ARTS STUDIES (TAS) at AIT; author of the book \u201cDEEP LOOKING A Guide to Deep Observation to Revive the Imagination\u201d published by AIT Press in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indipendent Curator, Program Director of AIT TOTAL ARTS STUDIES<\/p>\n<p>Born in Tokyo, Japan. Educated in England from childhood. Studied at Canterbury Kent University, where he majored in Mysticism, also completing his PhD there with Professor Roger Cardinal (\u2018Outsider Art, 1972). After returning to Japan in 1998, he worked as an independent curator and taught as a part-time lecturer at art universities in Japan and abroad from 2000 to 2013. In 2010, he moved to Saku, Nagano. He opened Fenberger House in 2014 and serves as its Director.<\/p>\n<p>He founded MOACA\u00a0 in 2019, a citizens climate change initiative that raises awareness through talks and school visits in the Saku area. He organizes lectures and discussion events on the climate crisis and adaptation. Curator of the \u201cMuseum of Together\u201d exhibition (2017, organized by the Nippon Foundation DIVERSITY IN THE ARTS); program director of TOTAL ARTS STUDIES (TAS) at AIT; author of the book \u201cDEEP LOOKING A Guide to Deep Observation to Revive the Imagination\u201d published by AIT Press in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2606,"parent":0,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-i-t.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/6307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-i-t.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-i-t.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-i-t.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-i-t.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/6307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12558,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-i-t.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/6307\/revisions\/12558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-i-t.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-i-t.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}