Honolulu Academy of Arts Blog
If you missed the documentary “Who Does She Think She Is?” at Friends of Film Friday this month, your second chance is coming up Dec. 3-6 at Doris Duke Theatre. Find out why it’s so hard for women to be artists and also do the things women are expected to do. What do women sacrifice [...]
Filmmaker Darryl Roberts was at the Academy in October to present his documentary “America the Beautiful” at Friends of Film Friday. If you missed that deluxe edition (guests got to meet Roberts and asked him a LOT of questions at the post-screening Q+A), the film is back at Doris Duke Theatre Nov. 29, 30, Dec. [...]
Don’t say that Hawaii’s teachers aren’t committed to their jobs. The flash flood warnings and downpour of rain last week Saturday weren’t enough to prevent several teachers from leaving the comfort of their beds to attend a half-day workshop in the Academy’s Museum Learning Center. The workshop, made possible by a grant from the Hawaii Council for the Humanities, was intended to [...]
The World Art Bazaar opens on Nov. 29. Members get a sneak preview on Nov. 28—you can get in only with a valid membership card. Want to join to get a jump on the holiday-shopping hordes? Get the info online or call 532-8724. Before I started working here I thought the World Art Bazaar was [...]
Aaron Padilla, Assistant Curator of Education at the Academy, has gotten news that his award-winning entry at the Hawaii Craftsmen exhibition (held at ARTS at Marks Garage last month) has been bought by the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and is officially accepted into the foundation’s permanent collection. The work is “Over [...]
Fellow kapa maker Dalani Tanahi, who practices her art in Makaha, on the exhibition He Ho’ala Ana/An Awakening: Kapa by Marie McDonald. On view through Jan. 18, 2009. The work has to be seen to be believed. As one person said at the opening “I get chicken skin.”
Our amazing staff photographer Shuzo Uemoto just finished processing his shots from the He Ho’ala Ana / An Awakening opening last week. We share them here with you. It was an enchanting evening, with people there to share their aloha and reverence for master kapa and lei maker Marie McDonald. Enjoy a gallery of photos [...]
It’s raining, it’s pouring—perfect conditions for settling down to a marathon of documentaries about photography on Ovation today. At 11am I’m watching “The Genius of Photography,” which includes a segment about Robert Frank and his famous cross-country road trip and subsequent seminal book “The Americans“—which turned 50 this year. The series makes you feel nostalgic [...]
Master kapa maker Marie McDonald’s exhibition, “He Ho’ala Ana / An Awakening: Kapa by Marie McDonald” opened Wednesday night at the Academy with an exceptional turn out. She was back Thursday morning as Textile Collection Manager Sara Oka shared the Academy’s kapa collection with her and other kapa makers. Oka laid out the large, fragile [...]
A who’s who of kapa and lei makers gathered in the Honolulu Academy of Arts’ Banyan Court last night to honor master kapa artist Marie McDonald. Mary Sakamoto danced hula to Pua Case’s beautiful oli “Maika‘i ke anui Waimea”—both of them wearing garments made of McDonald’s kapa. Lei maker Vivian “Happy” Tamanaha, who volunteers at [...]