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2010 MAMO Native Hawaiian Arts Market

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.
Dalani was honored to be among these wonderful artists, most of them good friends as well, from whom she has been able to learn, not only about their art disciplines, but about the foward movement of cultural artistry, preservation and interpretation in Hawaii today. Virtually all of these artists are also teachers, instructors and cultural spokespeople, who very generously share their time, talents and knowledge about their chosen craft. A special thanks to Kumu Hula Victoria Holt-Takamine, who is the lead organizer and visionary of MAMO and has worked tirelessly to ensure that native Hawaiian artists and practitioners are recognized and honored in the greater art community.

For more information about Ma`oli Arts Month, held every year in May, and about the participating artists, galleries and events, please visit their website at www.maoliartsmonth.org.

With Solomon Apio, a skilled woodworker who specializes in Hawaiian weapons, turned wood items as well as having mastered the intricate weaving of the native i`e i`e vines into the traditional helmets of the Hawaiian warriors of old.

With McD Philpotts, craftsman in wood, specializing in traditional canoes, fine furniture and carved wood panels, turned bowls.

With Gordon Umi Kai, craftsman in wood, stone and animal products, specializing in traditional Hawaiian weapons, spears and clubs. Umi also has mastered the many intricate types of braiding cordage as used in ancient hawaiian traditions.

With Maile Andrade, textiles and jewelry practitioner, specializing in burnt silk graphics, silkscreen, mixed medias in jewelry and clothing, political and social awareness art.

With Manny Mattos, another specialist in the art of Hawaiian weapons, shown here with two leiomano, or sharks tooth clubs, a very deadly weapon in the traditional Hawaiian soldiers arsenal.

With Janice Kai, who is a very skilled weaver of lauhala, or pandanus leaves, and the making of useful items such as boxes and jewelry to whimsical creations such as this honu.

With Wendy Kamai, also a practitioner of lauhala weaving, shown here with her lauhala embelished slippers.

With Audrey Wagner, a practitioner in Hawaiian featherwork, such as kahili, capes and lei. She also creates beautiful and unusual jewelry from sea shells.

With Brook Kapukuniahi Parker. Following in the footsteps of his painter father, David Parker, Brook has painted virtually all his life and has been working on painstaking oil paint renditions of the Hawaiian chiefs and their lives.

With Kahakauila Toledo, a craftsman of Hawaiian weaponry and along with Umi Kai, an advanced practitioner of the traditional Hawaiian fight art known as lua.

Last Updated ( Saturday, 05 June 2010 15:00 )