Artist Jun Kaneko is internationally renowned for creating the largest free standing ceramic art pieces in the world. His monumental design extends to the stage, to opera, and to entire city plazas. His openness to new ideas has led him to begin building what he calls “an open space for the mind” in Omaha, Nebraska’s historic center—it is a place that aims to foster creativity in the arts, sciences, and philosophy.
Japanese). Art critic Arthur Danto has described Kaneko’s dangos as “an extraordinary creation, inasmuch as it combines monumentality with warmth and a kind of emotional lightness.”