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Hawaiʻi Nei 2017 Winners

People's Choice Winner

The 2017 winner for People's Choice is 🥁🥁🥁Wendy Barske and her artwork featuring our beloved ʻōhiʻa titled, “There Are No Words.” Wendy crafted this piece using paper and cloth mache. If you look closely the face is crying, expressing the loss of all the ʻōhiʻa in our Hawaiʻi Island forests. Mahalo, Wendy, for dedicating countless hours creating this incredible work of art and sharing the message of caring for our native species.

ADULT Featured Category Kumulāʻau: Trees

1st Place Amateur Division
Arah Ko, ‘Hale ʻŌhiʻa’

2nd Place Amateur Division
Philip Rosenberg, ‘Koa’

​1st Place Professional Division 
Carol Treadway, ‘Pueo Visits Wiliwili in The Land of ʻIlima’

2nd Place Professional Division  
​Mydock, ‘Milo Tree of Life’

ADULT General Native Species Category

1st Place Amateur Division 
Heidi Fickenger, ‘ʻElepaio’ 

2nd Place Amateur Division
Cody Yamaguchi, ‘ʻAmakihi and Māmane’

1st Place Professional Division 
Dominic Tidmarsh, ‘Study in Black and White’

2nd Place Professional Division
Greg West, ‘ʻAmaʻu, Sadleria cyatheoids’

ADULT Honorable Mentions 
Wendy Barske, ‘There Are No Words’  
Sherry Partlow, ‘In Memory Metrosideros polymorpha’
Lynn Capell, ‘The Secret Life of Trees’

Jurors' Choice
John Dawson, ‘Kīpuka Puaulu, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park’ ​

YOUTH Featured Category Kumulāʻau: Trees

1st Place Featured Category
Isabella Mettler, ‘ʻIʻiwi in the Kaloko Forest’

Honorable Mention
Matoi Taguchi, ‘Untitled’ 
Haʻaheo School 6th Grade, ‘Our Forest’ 

​YOUTH Lower Elementary (PreK - 2nd Grade)

1st Place 
Hāwelelani Camara, ‘Magenta Magic’

Honorable Mention  
Liam Bauer, ‘ʻAlalā Finding Food’
Hāwelelani Camara, ‘ʻIʻiwi and Lehua’

YOUTH Upper Elementary (3rd - 5th Grade)

1st Place  
Saint Joseph School 4th Grade, ‘Hawai‘i Nei’

Honorable Mention
Ezra Monelo, ‘The Hawaiian ʻIʻiwi’  
Sasha Shiroma, ‘Aeʻo’

YOUTH Middle School (6th - 8th Grade)

1st Place
Sofya Helms, ‘ʻElepaio’ 

Honorable Mention
Grace Merryman, ‘ʻĪlioholoikauaua’

​YOUTH High School (9th - 12th Grade)

1st Place  
Aimee Vicente Ito, ‘Untitled’

Honorable Mention  
Nanami Taono, ‘Sunny Day’

Juror's Choice 
Miley Auth, ‘Māmaki’

UPCOMING EVENTS

PARENT & CHILD: PRINTED WRAPPING PAPER WITH HAWAIʻI NEI
​Saturday, May 12th 10:00am-1:00pm

DESCRIPTION
Title: Parent & Child: Printed Wrapping Paper with Hawaiʻi Nei
Instructor: Emily Leucht of ʻImi Pono no ka ʻĀina
Schedule: Saturday, May 12 from 10:00am – 1:00pm 
Level: All Ages
Tuition: $10 per participant*
Description: Block Printing can be some of the most accessible and magical kind of printing, especially for youth. In this workshop we will use native plants and animals as inspiration to create stamps for block printing. Learn elements of creating a design, hints for safe carving and print patterns that will highlight your design. Leave the workshop with creations you and your keiki can proudly share with loved ones.  Plus the potential for these stamps is endless.  They can be used again to decorate fabric, gift cards , hats, you name it! We will give examples of crafts made by our students in years past to spark further creativity. Workshop is in collaboration with the Hawaiʻi Nei Art Contest and will be featuring our 2018 featured category of Endangered Species!
* This workshop was made possible by the generous donation of the Hiroaki, Elaine & Lawrence Kono Foundation

Short Bio: Born and raised in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, Emily Leucht currently works as an education associate for ʻImi Pono no ka ʻĀina (ʻImi Pono), the education and outreach program for Three Mountain Alliance watershed partnership. She received a BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts and a BA from the University of San Francisco. She shifted her career path from design to environmental education after becoming a team leader for Hawaiʻi Youth Conservation Core in 2009. She began working with ʻImi Pono in 2010, where she translates new experiences and knowledge into creative environmental education tools and programs. Examples include rainforest and reef “Watershed Friend” masks and an ʻōhiʻa lehua anatomy and pheonology activity. From 2012-2016 Emily coordinated the annual Hawaiʻi Nei Art Contest.  This role positioned her as a leader to build and cultivate natural resource stewardship through the arts.  Both in personal and professional settings, Emily strives to combine her two passions, creativity and the natural world, into a tool that can connect our human communities to the native environments on which we are so dependent.
Students should bring: 

• Any photos of endangered Hawaiʻi species that they are interested in

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Community Planting Day at Keauhou, Kaʻū
May 26th

Join Three Mountain Alliance's Na Kiaʻi Kūmokuhāliʻi program in rebuilding our native upland forests! Plant trees, learn about the restoration of Keauhou, Kaʻū, and enjoy a potluck lunch with other forest minded folks. Its a fun and rewarding day for all ages!
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Nestled between some of the largest, most pristine native rainforests in Hawaiʻi, Keauhou is a crucial place in the vitality of native wetland forests and the plants and animals that call it home. Keauhou is a transition point between the wet forests of Puna and the arid deserts of Kaʻū. This unique land is home to many native plants and animals found only here in Hawaiʻi, and some only on Hawaiʻi Island. Visit www.threemountainalliance.org/community to register!

Spaces limited. First come, first served. ​