NEWS AND EVENTS

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IMPORTANT DATES

ART PICK-UP DATES 

WAILOA ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER INTAKE (HILO)

November 30, 2013 (Saturday)
Time: 9am-12 pm

With the end of Hawaiʻi Nei comes time to pick up art work at Wailoa.  Please call Codie King at Wailoa, 933-0416 for more information.  

DONKEY MILL ART CENTER INTAKE (HUALALOA)

early December 2013

Date and time are still being solidified for a pick-up for our Kona artists.  All works will be transported back to Donkey Mill Art Center in early December.  Date and time TBD. 

RECENT EVENTS

OPENING RECEPTION
Mahalo Nui Loa for all of your support in making our opening reception such a hit!

Youth Awards:

We had our best turn out to date for the youth reception.  Thanks to all the amazing keiki who entered this year!  As usual your artwork never ceases to impress and stun jurors and staff!  Keep it coming budding artists!

We had one stunning palila enter our costume contest (far right, in winners photo below)... but remember for there is always next year!  Dress up those kids as a native species for Halloween and use the costume twice!

Adult Awards: 

Just like the keiki reception, we had a wonderful turn out.  Thanks to accepted artists we had a feast for the belly and eyes! 

Thank you to our special guests Ann Ebesuno (East Hawaii Field Representative for Senator Mazie K. Hirono), and Eva Laird Smith, Executive Director  of Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.  

And if you missed the costume contest check out the participants below!

EXHIBITION

Dates: November 1st, 2013 - November 29th, 2013

Please come down to the Wailoa Arts and Cultural Center in Hilo to see beautiful artwork of native species created by our very own Big Island residents! All adult artwork is for sale.  

Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 8:30 am–4:30 pm; Wednesday noon–4:30 pm; Closed Saturday, Sunday and State Holidays
Admission: free

UPCOMING EVENTS

TALK STORY SATURDAYS

November 9, 2013
10:30-11:30: Gallery Tour with Liz Miller

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Liz Miller, known for her stunning metal work and depictions of native species leads this gallery tour of Hawaiʻi Nei 2013.  See the art and native species through the eyes of a renowned artist, former Hawaiʻi Nei winner, and one of this yearʻs jurors.  FREE!

1:30-2:30: Keiki Arts and Crafts

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Bring the keiki down to Wailoa Arts and Cultural Center for some native species arts and crafts.  Make post cards inspired by plants and animals in the Kumulipo, Fold an origami Palila.  Get some ink done with temporary tatoos. When youʻre pau check out the great keiki art in Wailoaʻs Fountain Gallery.  FREE!


November 16, 2013
10:30-11:30: Palila and their Forest Home with Jackson Bauer

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Did you know Palila are only found on Mauna Kea and nowhere else on earth? Tour the gallery with Jackson Bauer from the Mauna Kea Forest Restoration Project and learn more about the palila, our last seed eating honeycreeper and its home. Fold your own origami palila to as a souvenir. FREE!




"Modern Family" by Marilee Krinitt; 
Winner Adult Am: Palila, Hawaiʻi Nei 2013

1:30-2:30: Gallery Tour with Jack Jeffrey

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HawaiʻI Nei is proud to present a special tour around the gallery with renowned biologist and bird photographer, Jack Jeffrey. With a wealth of knowledge and jokes, it is sure to be a fun and fascinating tour. FREE!

Photo of an ʻAkiapōlāʻau by Jack Jeffrey

PALILA POLOOZA:


A family festival celebrating Mauna Kea's high-elevation dry forest and its most famous resident, the endangered forest bird, the Palila. 

In addition to Imiloa's museum and planetarium, there will be free games, crafts, educational talks, live music, and even a palila movie! 

Selected artworks from Hawaiʻi Nei 2013 will be displayed around ʻImiloaʻs atrium for the month of December.  The day of event will feature hourly art tours around atrium.   

This event is a collaboration of the Mauna Kea Forest Restoration Project (MKFRP), Hawaii Hawai‘i Nei Art Contest, and Imiloa Astronomy Center. 

Hawai‘i Nei has a New Continuing Prize Division

This year Hawai‘i Nei Art Contest will be added a contemporary prize division.