Honolulu Academy of Arts Blog
About 180 people filled Doris Duke Theatre for archeologist William Kelso’s free talk, and the history and archeology buffs weren’t disappointed. He is the head of the Jamestown Rediscovery Project and is one of America’s foremost archaeologists in Early American history. He told the tale of how the milestone Jamestown dig started in 1994 with [...]
Last Friday’s Joy of Sake at the Honolulu Academy of Arts opened with a sake ceremony, and continued with amazing brews and food. If you were one of the 1,200 people who came to sample and have fun—thanks! See if you can spot yourself in the photo gallery.
A lot of the museum’s staff—from every department—are artists. Security guard Calvin Collins’ work was last seen at the late Nu‘uanu Gallery. Now he has a solo show, “Anomaly,” at the HPU Gallery in Kane‘ohe. “My paintings and drawings traffic heavily in the realm of identity politics and allegory,” says Collins in his artist statement. [...]
Six works from the Academy have followed in the footsteps of President Barack Obama. In February, Sen. Daniel Inouye visited the Academy, looking for some visual aloha to take to Washington, D.C. After touring the Holt Gallery and vaults with Director Stephen Little, the eight-term senator selected the paintings (five from the collection and one [...]
No more waiting in long lines at the mercy of the elements to see the nation’s Capitol! The brand-new, $621 million dollar underground complex includes a big waiting hall, a cafeteria with regional dishes, a restaurant, two movie theaters and a gallery of interactive exhibits about Congress and the Capitol. Large skylights open to spectacular [...]
Recently I escorted six paintings of Hawaiian scenes from the Academy to the U.S. Senate in Washington D.C. The shipment was transported by specialist art movers. For the first time in my experience, one of our drivers was a woman.
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Yesterday about 60 Academy members (who bought Joy of Sake tickets) and Joy of Sake volunteers attended Sake 101—a tasting workshop in the Pavilion Cafe led by Joy of Sake founder Chris Pearce. Natalie Aczon and Megan Hiramoto of our Development Department worked with Jan Nagano and Pua Auyong-White to put the first-time event together. [...]
The second Pacific Islands Film Festival: Cultural Forum Through Film starts today at the Doris Duke Theatre. “These films represent the state of documentary filmmaking in Oceania today,” says Vilsoni Hereniko, Director of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawai’i, who organized the festival and is also a filmmaker—he directed the 2004 [...]