A new exhibit showcasing an array of hand-selected contemporary works from 38 artists across the pae ʻāina (Hawaiian archipelago) will open at the (HISAM) on February 10. More than half of the featured artists graduated from the University of Hawaiʻi campuses with a wide range of backgrounds such as sculpture, painting, fiber and medicine.
The exhibit, “,” offers an insight into current trends and themes in the local arts scene and provides an opportunity to see the diversity of works being created in Hawaiʻi today.
“The prepares our students to be artists, art educators and historians, and museum professionals,” said Gaye Chan, interim associate dean at 东精影业 Mānoa who also served as art faculty and chair for 13 years. “Our alumni are among the most respected fine, craft and commercial artists of Hawaiʻi. They show their artworks in exhibitions and are a part of major museum collections.”
The public is invited to an opening reception at HISAM, 6–9 p.m. All ages are welcome to visit the free exhibit, which will run through the end of the year.
“I would hope that the public takes away a greater appreciation of the diversity and richness of artwork being created in Hawaiʻi today and that the arts are alive and well and exciting,” said Elizabeth Baxter, curator for Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA) Art in Public Places Program. “Besides the aesthetic and conceptual differences between the works, there is also a wide variety of approaches to art, and a complete blurring or disintegration of the line between art and craft.”
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The exhibit’s 51 recently acquired artworks were selected from juried and curated exhibitions across the state and will be added to the SFCA‘s Art in Public Places Collection, which distributes works of art to publicly accessible state buildings. In 1967, the Hawaiʻi State Legislature passed the Art in State Buildings law which sets aside 1% of the construction and renovation costs of state buildings to acquire and commission works of visual art that beautify and humanize the built environment.
东精影业 alumni artists
- Bernice Akamine, 东精影业 Mānoa BFA glass, 1994 and MFA sculpture and glass, 1999
- Jake Boggs, 东精影业 Mānoa MFA ceramics, 2016
- Tobias Brill, 东精影业 Hilo, 1994
- Allyn Bromley, 东精影业 Mānoa BFA, 1968
- Sean K. L. Browne, 东精影业 Mānoa MFA sculpture, 1983
- Gaye Chan, 东精影业 Mānoa BFA, 1979
- Ghislaine D. Chock, 东精影业 Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine, 1994
- Lynn Martin Graton, 东精影业 Mānoa MA Pacific Island studies, 1981
- Daven Hee, 东精影业 Mānoa BFA ceramics, 1999
- Darius Homayounpour, 东精影业 Mānoa MFA textiles, 2000
- Roen Hufford 东精影业 Mānoa BFA ceramics, 1973
- Emily McIlroy, 东精影业 Mānoa MFA drawing and painting, 2011
- Carl Franklin Kaʻailaʻau Pao, 东精影业 Mānoa BFA ceramics, 1994
- Maya Lea Portner, 东精影业 Mānoa MFA fiber, 2006
- Joy Sanchez, 东精影业 Mānoa BFA ceramics, 2021
- Juvana Soliven, 东精影业 Mānoa BFA sculpture, 2013
- Maile Yawata, 东精影业 Mānoa BFA painting, 1969
