Take art quiz, win tickets to opening of museum
Advertiser Staff
How much do you know about Hawai'i, its history and its art?
State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
You'll be able to learn much more when the new Hawai'i State Art Museum opens Nov. 3. To get in the spirit, we are sponsoring a quiz contest, which kicks off today and continues through Friday. Answer all five questions correctly and you will be entered in a drawing for tickets guaranteeing you admission to see the museum on its opening day.
"East and West," a 1961 copper sculpture, is among the works that will be on display at the Hawai'i State Art Museum.
The opening day festival, "Celebrate Culture and the Arts," takes place throughout the Capitol District, so plan to bring the family and stay all day.
The arts quiz
Today through Friday, we will quiz you on an artist whose work will be exhibited at the new State Art Museum. If you answer all five questions correctly, you will be entered in a drawing to be one of the first people to see the new facility and its treasures. Fifty winners will receive four tickets each for the 9:30 a.m. self-guided tour, the first of the day, which takes about an hour.
This is an "open book" test; you can look up the answers — but, just to keep it fun, see if you know the answer without consulting a resource.
The first question:
The creator of this piece, on display in the first State Art Museum exhibit, is a renowned sculptor and painter born in Honolulu in 1926. This artist graduated from McKinley High School, and studied art at the California School of Fine Arts, and the Art Students League in New York. In 1963, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Since 1967, he has worked with meditative and continued patience in cutting and piercing copper to create expressions of his metaphor for life and philosophy of reincarnation.
Who is this artist?
Answer by e-mail at islandlife@honoluluadvertiser.com, fax 525-8055, or snail mail: P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu HI 96813. Be sure to give us your name and a daytime phone number. The drawing will take place on Wednesday, and we will call to alert all winners.
Winners can pick up their tickets in person at the kiosk at the corner of Richards and Hotel streets at 9 a.m. on opening day, Nov. 3.
Answers will be given in the Nov. 3 Advertiser, in Island Life. Tomorrow through Friday's questions will be in our Left Lane column, on the front page of the Island Life section.
Art museum opens
The Hawai'i State Art Museum occupies 12,000 feet on the second floor of the historic Spanish Mission-style former YMCA headquarters at Richards and S. Hotel streets ("the Hemmeter building," or No. 1 Capitol District Building). It realizes a vision long held by officials of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to have a central place in which to showcase the Art in Public Places Collection.
• Activities: The opening day festival takes place 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 3, presented by Capitol District Partners and the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts in Public Places Program. The Honolulu Advertiser is a sponsor.
Special attractions include free tours of the 'Iolani Palace basement galleries from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; artist talks at The Contemporary Art Museum at First Hawaiian Center; docent-led tours of the Vietnam Veterans memorial near the Capitol Building, and an open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Washington Place. Children's activities such as face painting and arts and crafts booths take place from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and the YWCA is hosting a family swim from 2 to 4 p.m.
Artists' demonstrations will take place throughout the Capitol District and musicians and dancers will perform on the Capital Lawn and the museum's front lawn. Free trolley shuttles will run between attractions throughout the day, and parking will be available.
• Food: Food and beverages will be on sale at the YWCA.
• Information: Hawai'i State Art Museum (808) 586-0900.
