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2010 MAMO Native Hawaiian Arts Market |
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Saturday, 05 June 2010 14:13 |
 The culminating event of the 5th Annual Maoli Arts Month activites was the Native Hawaiian Arts Market and Keiki Art Festival, held on the grounds of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii on May 22, 2010. It is a rare opportunity to see so many native Hawaiian artists presenting their skills and workmanship in ancient, traditional and contemporary arts. From weaving,textiles and kapa, to works in stone, wood, feathers, shells and gourds, to fine oil painting, graphic designs and photography. These are all master craftspeople, artisians and practitioners with a great love for not only keeping traditional arts alive, but adding their own heartt, soul and mana to many of those arts. Along with the art also comes love of the land, aloha `aina, in chosing sustainable woods and products to create many of the works, to love of ancient culture and the ways of the ancestors or kupuna, in keeping and preserving the many types of beautiful and functional items that they made for day to day use. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 05 June 2010 15:00 )
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Sunday, 11 April 2010 20:43 |
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 At first glance the two dozen bark-cloth kites hanging in Bishop Museum’s Science Adventure Center seem incongruous. “What,” one might ask, “do kites have to do with science?”
Well, for one, this is ancient technology, predating Western contact by hundreds of years. The demigod Maui is said to have engaged in various kite-flying adventures, and petroglyphs on the Big Island document a lupe manu—literally a “bird kite,” with wings on each side. Kites have long been flown not just in Hawai‘i, but also throughout Oceania. In Aotearoa they were sometimes used for divination; Solomon Islanders used them for fishing, flying them in front of a canoe with bait attached. In parts of Micronesia, they were woven from leaves of the pandanus or other plants. In Hawai‘i, Tahiti, the Cook Islands and elsewhere, they were also made from kapa (bark cloth), itself a millennia-old Pacific textile.
Read more at
Hanahou Magazine website (Kapa in the Sky)
Star Bulletin Website (Kapa in the Sky)
Honolulu Weekly Website ( Kite Runners)
Bishop Museum Website (New Kapa Kite Exhibit Features Work Of Waianae Students)
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 11 April 2010 21:36 )
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Saturday, 22 May 2010 19:08 |
Kapa Hawaii is pleased to announce that Dalani has kapa for show and sale in two local galleries. She has two large framed kapa at these two locations. Please support our local artists and galleries by checking out:
Andrew Rose Gallery
www.andrewrosegallery.com
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Runs to May 29, 2010
Featuring fine vintage and contemporary art of Hawaii...
Andrew Rose, himself an artist as well as an art instructor at the Island Pacific Academy, is currating a gallery of wonderful and eclectic art, nestled high in the forests of Tantalus. Well worth the drive, not only for the beauty of the locale, but especially for the collection of art he has gathered from island artists. Please visit his website for more information.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 05 June 2010 14:10 )
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An Artistic Collaboration: The Hawaiian Arts of Hula and Kapa |
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Saturday, 20 February 2010 15:57 |
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An artistic collaboration between a hui of contemporary kapa makers and Hālau O Kekuhi, Kumu hula Nalani Kanaka`ole, in which the hālau will be attired in Hawaiian kapa garments of pa`u and malo for a traditional hula presentation at the Merrie Monarch Ho`ike in April 2011 in Hilo Hawai`i.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 21 February 2010 19:52 )
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