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Marty Gross is a consulting producer for companies based in North America, Europe and Asia, with focus on Japanese art, film, theatre and crafts. His company, Marty Gross Film Productions, Inc. (founded in 1975), manages one of the most comprehensive websites devoted to films on Japanese cultural and historical subjects. Since 1974, he has produced and directed films (including ''As We Are'', ''Potters at Work'', ''The Lovers’ Exile''), restored archival films on Japanese arts and crafts (such as ''The Leach Pottery'', ''Maskiko Village Pottery, Japan 1937''), conducted numerous interviews, produced documentaries and coordinated publication of books on the history of Japanese cinema. == Early life and education == Born Martin (Marty) Gross on 28 May 1948 in Toronto, Canada. In his teens, he decided to follow his interest in art and took pottery classes at the Toronto YMHA with noted teacher Beck Breland. Gross eventually became Breland's teaching assistant in her work with children with learning disabilities. Breland encouraged Gross to teach art classes and at art camps as a part-time job. Breland introduced Gross to the Earl's Court Community Centre where he worked with community organizer Margaret Norquay establishing an art program for children. During the same period, Gross taught art part-time at the Bialik Hebrew Day School and also at the United Synagogue Day School in Toronto and summers at Camp Kawagama, Dorset, Ontario. After a year of travel in Europe, Gross continued his art studies, part-time work as an art teacher and decided to pursue undergraduate studies. However, after 18 months of studying Oriental Studies and Fine Art at York University, Gross decided to leave university to become an apprentice potter in Tokoname, Japan in 1970. In 1972, he partnered with founder of the Youthdale Treatment Centre, Dan Hagler, to create the Tempus Art Centre in Toronto. Gross was the director and lead teacher in the school and tailored programming for students and clients. Gross eventually bought out his partner in 1978 and renamed it Marty Gross Studio. The studio continues to operate as a private art school teaching children ceramics and pottery, film animation, still photography, drawing, painting and printmaking. In 1972 Gross began, with psychodramatist Marcia Karp Robbins, teaching the patients of the Mental Retardation Centre of Toronto – now known as the Surrey Place Centre. It is during this time that he also observed how art reached disturbed children at the art school. He decided to capture his methods of teaching art to autistic children and their experiences in the art class, which becomes his first documentary film ''As We Are'', produced in 1974. Later in 1975, Gross traveled back to Japan to continue his pottery apprenticeship in Naha, Okinawa, which marked the beginning of Gross's career in film, pottery and producing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marty Gross」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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