Visual innovation on display at Wailoa Center

Innovative Visual Expressions, a multimedia art exhibit at Wailoa Center, will continue through Thursday, Sept. 26.

IVE for short, this exhibit was created out of the desire to showcase seasoned professional artists who have lived and worked on the Big Island at some point in their careers.

Hawaii Island Art Alliance and Wailoa Center invited the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to come review the IVE exhibit, which they did Sept. 6. The foundation’s volunteer visual art consultant team spent the morning reviewing the art and deliberating the possibilities. The result was awarding three artists, Kaori Ukaji, Lonny Tomono and Michael Marshall, recognition awards.

Their art also will go up for review and possibly be purchased by the state for the Art in Public Places Program.

The artists with works featured in the exhibit are Amber Aguirre, Clayton Amemiya, Pam Barton, Henry Bianchini, Lynn Capell, Kevin Diminyatz, Gary Eoff, Stephen Freedman, Steve Garon, Jon Goebel, Joe Hampton, Andrzej Kramarz, Tai Lake, Byoung Yong Lee, Ethel Mann, Marshall, Hiroki Morinoue, Setsuko Morinoue, Miho Morinoue, Michael and Misato Mortara, Philippe Francois Nault, Patrick O’Kiersey, Joe Ruesing, Franco Salmoiraghi, Georgia Sartoris, Patrick Sarsfield, Randy Shiroma, Erin Skelton, Randy Takaki, Mark Tanabe, Dominic Tidmarsh, Tomono, Ukaji, Denise Wallace and Brett Weston.

Wailoa Center, located at 200 Piopio St. in Hilo, is free and open to the public from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

For more information, call 933-0416 or email wailoa@yahoo.com.