Wailoa Center will mark its fifth year of hosting Maoli Art Month with an exhibit in April titled “Lau Lima,” meaning “many hands,” cooperation or joint action.
Eighteen Native Hawaiian artists will display their multimedia artworks throughout the month, including Merrie Monarch week. The exhibit opens with a public reception for the artists from 5-6:30 p.m. Friday. Light refreshments will be served.
On display in the Main Gallery will be paintings, drawings, wood and stone carvings, gourds, bone jewelry, ceramics, lauhala, photography, woodturnings and kapa. The featured artists are Beau Jack Key, Nelson Makua, Kainoa Makua, Roen Hufford, Geoffrey Mundon, Momi Green, Michael Glendon, Kuehu Mauga, Haley Kailiehu, Al Santos, Tom Mehau, Syd Vierra, Moses Kealamakia, Ku‘uipo Morales, Ka‘ohuoka‘ala Seto and Pua and Dean Ka‘ahanui.
Also in April, the Fountain Gallery will showcase a one-woman exhibit, “Retrospective. Perspective.” by watercolorist Kauanoe Chang.
Chang was born and raised on Oahu, where her interest in art started at age 4 and became a lifetime passion.
She received her fine arts and education degrees from the University of Hawaii.
Kauanoe — as she likes to be called — moved to the Big Island in 2000 to focus on the visual language of telling her story about Hawaii and Hawaiians through watercolor painting.
“My paintings are imprints of my genetic makeup,” she explained. “They tell pictorial stories of who I am, what I have experienced, and they tell of times past and present.”
For additional information, call 933-0416 or email wailoa@yahoo.com.
