Above The Fold: New Expressions in Origami will be at Maui Arts and Cultural Center from Saturday, September 1st until Sunday, November 25th. The exhibit features the works of nine internationally renowned origami artists. See new directions in this Japanese art form including sculpture, large-scale installations, and conceptual works that express contemporary social, … [Read more...] about Above The Fold: New Expressions in Origami at Maui Arts and Cultural Center
Art Shows on Maui
Hui No’Eau Annual Juried Show
One of the best ways to see the front lines of the art world is to visit the annual Juried Exhibition at the Hui No`eau Visual Arts Center. This free art show started in early January and will hang through Feb. 17. For this year’s show, the Hui invited Duncan Dempster to curate. This collection of art has no theme; in fact, Dempster admits he went visceral to … [Read more...] about Hui No’Eau Annual Juried Show
Wyland Art Exhibit
I’m afraid that by admitting this I might be excommunicated from “the art capitol of the Pacific,” but I’m always getting Wyland and Christian Reese Lassen mixed up. Both are big-name Hawaii-based artists with a penchant for painting marine mammals with a mystical, sunset-drenched slant—so you can see how I might confuse the two. The easiest way to tell them apart is that … [Read more...] about Wyland Art Exhibit
Maui Hula Happenings
OK, I’ll admit it: I haven’t entirely gotten through the Schaefer International Gallery’s newest show, Ho‘oulu: The Inspiration of Hula. There are four fine-art portraits, three vignettes of hula-related artifacts from families with “uninterrupted genealogical lines of hula,” a looped video of archival interviews and 70 black and white portrait-photographs of loea hula (hula … [Read more...] about Maui Hula Happenings
International Ice Sculpting Competition
Have An Ice Day Saturday & Sunday (November 13 & 14), 11am-1pm, Lahaina Cannery Mall, Free Few mediums are as ephemeral and unforgiving as ice; sculptors of the frozen substance subject themselves to certain heartbreak (the key word, unfortunately, being break). The challenge of ice sculpting in cold weather is tough enough, but take that competition to the tropics and it’s … [Read more...] about International Ice Sculpting Competition