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We are super excited to announce a new twist on a past successful fundraising event. A virtual silent auction! Were taking a page from our previous FORMable Feast events. BUT no buying tickets, no fancy outfits, no traffic, no parking hassles, no rubber chicken dinners, no too tight fancy shoes, no idle chit chat, no volunteer shifts, no bar bill, no hangover - well that still depends on you, you can indulge at home and save the Uber fare! It’s all virtual and all online. We need to raise $30,000 this year to keep Hawaii Craftsmen solvent. About 30% of that will come from membership dues; renew today ! but the rest we will raise with donations and events.

We’re calling it inFORMable Feast. The only thing not virtual is the art on auction and the dollar bills paid to bring that art into your home.

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Hawai’i Craftsmen is thrilled to announce that Tom Klobe will be the juror for Fiber Hawai'i 2018.

JUROR STATEMENT

JUROR BIO

Tom Klobe is professor emeritus and founding director of the University of Hawaii Art Gallery. During his 29 year tenure at UH he organized and designed over 200 exhibitions, five of which received the prestigious Print Casebook Award for Best in Exhibition Design in competition with major museums in the US and abroad.He has authored and edited over 35 exhibition catalogues. His book, Exhibitions: Concept, Planning and Design, was published in 2012 by the American Association of Museums Press.

Tom’s interests in the visual arts span a broad range of materials and techniques. He was co-chair of the 2008 Textile Society of America Biennial Symposium in Honolulu and worked closely with textile curators in the development of important fiber exhibitions at the University.

Between 1966 and 1976 Tom created over 60 paintings and sculptures that utilized light to explore human perceptions of space. Art, science, and religion came together in his work that grew from his awe of space exploration and his deep respect for the people of the Middle East that he gained as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Iran in the mid 60s. His book, A Young American in Iran, chronicles those experiences with humor and poignancy.

Tom was named a Living Treasure of Hawaii by the Honpa Hongwanji Mission in 2005 and was the recipient of the Robert W. Clopton Award for Distinguished Community Service in 2003. In 1999 he was knighted by the Republic of France as a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for his contributions to the arts in France and Hawaii.

Art intake: 
August 20

Jurying: 
August 21

Opening reception: 
August 24

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Hawai’i Craftsmen is thrilled to announce that Scott Young will be the juror for the 2018 Raku Ho'olaule'a. 

REGISTRATION TBA

HAWAI‘I CRAFTSMEN INVITES ARTIST SUBMISSIONS TO THE 51st ANNUAL STATEWIDE JURIED EXHIBITION 2018

EMERGING AND ESTABLISHED ARTISTS,  MEMBERS AND NONMEMBERS  FROM ACROSS THE STATE ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT UP TO SIX COMPLETED ARTWORKS TO BE CONSIDERED FOR INCLUSIONS IN THE 51st ANNUAL STATEWIDE JURIED EXHIBITION

CaFE REGISTRATION WILL OPEN ON SEPTEMBER 1st, AND CLOSE ON OCTOBER 1st, 2018

Hawai’i Craftsmen is thrilled to announce that Isabella Ellaheh Hughes, Co-Founder and Director of the Honolulu Biennial Foundation will be the juror for the 51st Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition.

JUROR STATEMENT

It is an honor to be the 51st juror of the Hawai’i Craftsmen Annual Statewide Exhibition! I am excited to have the opportunity to visit many of the neighbor islands as a juror, and am a strong champion of exhibitions and programs such as this that bring our state-wide creative community together. It generally feels that each island operates independently, and far too often exhibitions and programs are O’ahu-centric. Although my professional career in the arts has largely been centered on contemporary art, I have a deep appreciation of craft that I was introduced to at a young age growing up in Hawai’i. In recent years, I have become particularly enthusiastic about the growing synergies between contemporary art and craftsmanship; I firmly believe some of the strongest amalgamations of contemporary art and craft are coming out of our local creative community. As a juror, I am particularly interested in the relationship between traditional techniques and materials, reimagined with an innovative, original aesthetic. Creating forward-thinking, inventive pieces, yet looking to and honoring the past (heritage, history, tradition) as a point of inspiration has always been of great fascination for me and will absolutely be something that will resonate strongly when jurying.

JUROR BIO

Isabella Ellaheh Hughes, Co-Founder and Director, Honolulu Biennial Foundation

Born and raised in Honolulu, Hughes is one of the co-founders and directors of Honolulu Biennial Foundation, an international biennial focused on artists from the cultures linked by the Pacific Ocean. She is also an independent art critic, curator, and food and beverage entrepreneur. Sheʻs written for ArtAsiaPacific, Brownbook, Contemporary Practices, Frieze, Harper’s Art Bazaar Arabia and Ibraaz, and contributed to exhibition catalogues for Honolulu Biennial 2017, Singapore Art Museum, Barjeel Art Foundation, Agha Khan Museum, and Bahrain’s Ministry of Culture. She is the editor of the monograph, Sama Alshaibi: Sand Rushes In (Aperture Foundation, 2015), and has curated exhibitions nationally and internationally, including for Art Dubai Projects, Ayyam Gallery, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Transformer Gallery, and Maraya Art Center. A frequent speaker and moderator of panels, Hughes has also served as a nominator for the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Program; Abraaj Capital Art Prize, as well as a juror for the YICCA 2013 International Contest of Contemporary Art, and Art Omi International visual arts residency. Most recently she has served as co-curator of CONTACT: Foreign and Familiar at the Honolulu Museum of Art School in 2016, and juror for the 40th Art Maui Exhibition in 2018.

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