HiSAM from Home: Illustration Workshop with Kea Peters of Kakou Collective
Pau Hana Artist Talk: Elizabeth Baxter, Curator of For Walls
HiSAM from Home: Watercolor Workshop with Amy Craig
HiSAM from Home: Painting Workshop with Aubrey Emi Designs
HiSAM from Home: Drawing Workshop with Jin An Wong
Kenyatta Kelechi was born and raised in a highly photogenic place: Kailua, Oahu. Yet his art practice intentionally turns our attention away from the tropical landscapes and seascapes he has grown accustomed to. Kenyatta, instead, chooses the portrait as his entrance into the conversation of identity. Growing up as an African American, Hawaiian, Chinese, Caucasian, Native American, he has never had a sense of belonging to any specific culture.
Kenyatta’s PechaKucha presentation focuses on the use of wetplate photography as a tool to ignite the conversation of identity. He will be discussing his recent body of work “Manachrome,” a series of portraits of Native Hawaiian practitioners and how it started as an investigation into his own Native Hawaiian genealogy and learning about his culture.
Taiji Terasaki is a Japanese-American artist based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Growing up in a family of scientists and creatives, with formal art education, Taiji Terasaki has spent more than 30 years exploring avant-garde innovations in his craft, working in photography, sculpture, immersive and large-scale installations, and pioneering mediums like mist projections as the canvas. His cutting-edge presentations are often juxtaposed by the subjects of cultural and environmental conservation, preservation, and restoration.
Taiji's PechaKucha presentation touches on his three Transcendients exhibitions: Immigrants: Stories of Place at Thomas Square, Heroes at Borders, and 100 Days of COVID-10 at the Japanese American National Museum. In his work, he honors individuals who are active in the community and who advocate for positive change. Many of the people represented are activists, educators, healthcare workers, political figures, actors, and many more. The heart of Taiji's work is focused on connecting with the community by providing these heroes with a platform to share their stories with the world.
As a 5th-generation genderqueer (gnc, they/them pronouns) San Francisco Bay-bred “American Born Chinese” (ABC), Lala Openi utilizes digital, tactile, and auditory art forms to activate narratives of identity and challenge our ingrained perspectives in the ongoing conversation with both self and space.
@openiiiiiiiii leverages their perpetual foreign-ness as the ability to see the inherent multiplicity in our shared realities, and offers their work as a communication and bridge between worlds, cultures, and, ultimately, perspectives.
Openi is a full-time freelance Designer, Media-Maker, Cultural Worker, and Co-Founder & Creative Director of The Abstract: a resource for coping & resiliency that bridges art, deep reflection, & mental health.
PechaKucha HNL: IDENTITY with Nicky "MelonJames" Munoz
MelonJames, an artist well known and loved for his graffiti, murals, and canvases around Chicago and Hawai‘i. There is no limit to his medium: spray paint, acrylic, sculpture and more, applied with details so fine, you'll have to look closely otherwise you'll miss it. If your eye captures a Melon piece while you're in a traffic jam or busy with the everyday grind, you'll definitely stop for a second as your heart melts into a smile.
MelonJames' presentation examines his life and how the people around him helped him discover his identity. This in turn helped him create with passion and emotion. MelonJames feels that identity is important because it helps give you purpose, but you need others around you to help you identify an identity. He believes that if you were the only person on this planet, in a weird way, you would have no identity.
HiSAM from Home: Digital Art Workshop with Marion Ano of Kilo Books Hawaii
PechaKucha HNL: IDENTITY with Risa Hoshino
Risa Hoshino was a nomad, she packed her makeup & hair kit to work on clients all over the world. With her experience worldwide, she has learned to be versatile with a keen understanding of makeup & hair artistry to best suit her clientele. With her travel bug satisfied, she is now grounded on the island of Oahu which she calls her permanent home...for now.
@risa.hoshino 's PK HNL presentation provides an overview of her career, and looks at how she's adapted to continue working throughout the global pandemic.
Keola Naka`ahiki Rapozo is the co-founder and creative director of FITTED. @fitted is a Hawai‘i based street wear staple that creates small batch merchandise informed by culture, place and people. With a store front nestled within sniping distance of Ala Moana Shopping center and distributing merchandise across the globe, FITTED has been able to carve a crease in the tapestry of contemporary Hawaiian wear. Raised in Ko’olaupoko, Keola was able to thread a needle that binds historical cultural context and mo’olelo to contemporary application through design and merchandise. Believing heavily in the idea being isolated is an attribute and not a burden!
In his PK presentation, Keola asks: How can we learn from the past that will inform us today on living a more fulfilled thoughtful life, one that includes personal responsibility? And how can choices affect the balance of your moʻokuauhau?
Today we kick off our next PechaKucha HNL Series, IDENTITY! We will post one new presentation every weekday through the 27th!
First up, we have Dan Paul Roberts, a writer, producer, musician and artist originally from Wichita Falls, Texas -- currently living in Honolulu, Hawaii. As a music man, he has written and released two albums under the name Dan Paul, and his illustrations have been featured on t-shirts and magazines worldwide.
Roberts is also the pastel-haired, singing drag queen Candi Shell. @misscandishell has been featured in TimeOUT Magazine, opened for Joan Rivers at her annual Pride performance at the Gramercy Theater and even appeared as herself in an episode of Ugly Betty. Candi hosts her own sketch comedy show called The Sweet Spot with Candi Shell, where she spotlights local talent and performs her hilarious song parodies. The Sweet Spot airs locally on Olelo53, has its own YouTube channel and is now available on AmazonPRIME.
In his PechaKucha presentation, Roberts chronicles his journey with drag and music--and thus, identity. He has had to confront his own internalized homophobia to be able to do drag, and this pursuit continues to broaden his horizons and introduce him to all kinds of wonderful individuals. He will show the evolution of Candi Shell and explain how the experience has changed him -- Candi will also have a voice and have a chance to explain things from her point of view as well.
HiSAM from Home: Painting Workshop with Amy Craig
HiSAM from Home: Painting Workshop with Aubrey Emi Designs
HiSAM from Home: Illustration Workshop with Kea Peters of Kakou Collective
HiSAM from Home: Conscious Creativity with Maia Lonergan
Pau Hana Artist Talk: Atis Puampai and KellyCiurej
The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Art in Public Places Program is requesting submissions from artists for artwork created in response to, or inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on life in Hawai‘i.
Artists play a unique role in telling the story of place and experience, providing the viewer insight and hope. The goal of the call is to support artists financially and promote the valuable role artists play in this time of global crisis, particularly within the state of Hawai‘i and our community, and to document artists' response to the pandemic and economic and civil unrest.
SFCA will consider works that are relevant to this crisis and the expectation is that artists are creating work based on their experiences through this time. Works of art considered may be acquired for the Art in Public Places Collection and displayed in public sites throughout the State of Hawai‘i, including the Hawai‘i State Art Museum.
Applications will be accepted online only through CaFÉ at: https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=7805
The application closes on December 31, 2020. This call for artwork is open to Hawai‘i residents only.
HiSAM from Home: Hybrid Creature Collage with Hannah Shun
Our next #HiSAMfromHome is TOMORROW! 10:00am HST on Zoom. Hannah Shun returns to lead us in a Hybrid Creature Collage project, inspired by our very own Mr. Chickenpants! Click the link below to get the Zoom link, or follow along on Facebook Live!
https://hisam.hawaii.gov/event/hisam-from-home-visual-art-workshop-9-10/?instance_id=12156
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Suggested materials:⠀
Magazines and catalogs that have animal pictures,⠀
Paper bag for backing⠀
Masking tape/scotch tape⠀
Skewers or a few wooden chopsticks⠀
Markers, Crayons, Sharpie, or colored pencils⠀
Fabrics, mesh bags that hold fruits/vegetables⠀
Bubble wrap, personal photos, or recycled paper, can all serve as great collage materials. ⠀
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Supplies:⠀
Pencil, ⠀
Scissors, ⠀
Glue sticks,⠀
Pushpin, or small nail to make tiny holes⠀
Fasteners (mini or small size preferred), like twist ties or wires⠀
A thick needle with thick thread, ⠀
Scratch paper⠀
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Miscellaneous: ⠀
Wet paper towel or rag to wipe hands, ⠀
Trash can
Don’t forget that the @artandwriting awards opened this week! If you’re a Hawai‘i student age 13+, and in 7th-12th grade, you can submit artwork for consideration. And best of all - entry fees are covered by the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts! Click the link below for more information!
https://www.artandwriting.org/Affiliate/HI001A
PAU HANA ARTIST TALK (VIRTUAL): MEET THE CURATORS OF “MAI HO‘OHULI I KA LIMA I LUNA”
HiSAM from Home: Cartooning Workshop with Eric Keli‘i Beyer
#TBT to this video highlight of @jodiendicott and her work. Jodi is an artist in the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts’ Art in Public Places collection!
#throwbackthursday #hisam #artinpublicplaces
HiSAM from Home: Bas-Relief Workshop with Hannah Shun
HiSAM from Home: Illustration Workshop with Kea Peters of Kakou Collective
HiSAM from Home: Conscious Creativity Workshop with Maia Lonergan
