{"id":31067,"date":"2015-01-28T08:17:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T18:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=31067"},"modified":"2021-10-07T14:44:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T00:44:30","slug":"mother-monk-seal-and-cub-immortalized-at-maui-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/01\/28\/mother-monk-seal-and-cub-immortalized-at-maui-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother monk seal and pup immortalized at Maui College"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_31072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31072\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/uh-maui-sculpture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/uh-maui-sculpture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/uh-maui-sculpture.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/uh-maui-sculpture-260x174.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>K&#363;lapa Kai<\/em> was carved by local artists Bruce Turnbull and Kim Mosley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Maui College<\/a> welcomes K&#363;lapa Kai&#8212;the newest addition to the campus&#8217; outdoor art installations. The sculpture depicts a playful mother monk seal and her cub, and was carved from a solid block of New Zealand marble by local artists Bruce Turnbull and Kim Mosley. K&#363;lapa Kai now graces the small, grassy knoll between the campus&#8217; Kalama and <span aria-label=\"Noii\">Noi&#699;i<\/span> buildings. The public is welcome to attend the sculpture&#8217;s official blessing on January 29 at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>K&#363;lapa Kai is part of a gift from Jim and Mary Hirshfield&#8217;s Summit Foundation, which seeks to leave artistic legacies in the form of sculptures, notably of animals that live in a particular region.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We sincerely appreciate this beauitiful addition to our campus,&rdquo; said Chancellor <strong>Lui K. Hokoana<\/strong>. &ldquo;I&#8217;ve already heard from faculty and students about how much they enjoy the new piece, and it was a wonderful opportunity for our art students to get some hands-on learning as well.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture took nearly a year to complete, with the majority of the carving done at Turnbull&#8217;s Kahakuloa studio. The piece was lifted by a crane and placed on campus last August. Students at the college participated in sanding and finishing demonstrations, and learned how to grind, polish and chisel the stone with power and hand tools for the statue&#8217;s finishing touches.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I love walking around the piece and taking it in from every vantage point,&rdquo; said <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College art faculty member <strong>Jennifer Owen<\/strong>. &ldquo;It was a fellow art teacher, <strong>Mike Takemoto<\/strong>, who pointed out that from one of the nearby sidewalks, the sculpture looks entirely abstract, while from the other walkways the forms of the monk seals are revealed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For the full story, visit the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> <a href=\"http:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/news\/dedication-for-new-campus-art-january-29th\/\">Maui College news site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College to bless newest outdoor sculpture, K&#363;lapa Kai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[105,60],"class_list":["post-31067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-art","tag-maui-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31067"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149409,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31067\/revisions\/149409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}