PANGAIA x Takashi Murakami x Bee The Change
This World Bee Day, PANGAIA is launching Bee the Change fund in partnership with Milkywire. This fund aims to protect and preserve vulnerable and endangered bee species across the world.
The first collection to benefit the newly established fund will be the very special PANGAIA x Takashi Murakami collection, with prints featuring flowers and a unique bee character created specifically for the project. Flowers are pollinated by bees and are an iconic feature in Takashi Murakami’s work.
About Milkywire
Milkywire is a new digital platform and app that allows users to easily find, fund, and follow screened “impacters” - some of the best grassroots NGOs from around the world working to fight extinction, save oceans, clean the planet, protect and restore forests and more.
Milkywire provides a unique and engaging experience by allowing users to support local projects directly, and see proof of impact by following their progress through weekly video updates directly on the app. Join Bee The Change, powered by Milkywire, to support grassroots projects working to protect and preserve bees.
About Takashi Murakami
Drawing from traditional Japanese painting, sci-fi, anime, and the global art market, Takashi Murakami creates paintings, sculptures, and films populated by repeated motifs and mutating characters of his own creation. His wide-ranging work embodies an intersection of pop culture, history, and fine art.
Murakami earned a BA, MFA, and PhD from Tokyo University of the Arts, where he studied nihonga (traditional Japanese painting). In 1996, he established the Hiropon Factory, a studio/workshop that in subsequent years grew into an art production and artist management company, now known as Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd.
To get to know the artist a bit more, head over to our exclusive Q&A here.
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