State art museum celebrating first anniversary

Advertiser Staff

The Hawai'i State Art Museum is celebrating its first birthday, and everyone's invited to the festivities Saturday on the front lawn of the No. 1 Capitol District building. View the museum's collection, meet artists and try your hand at art, too, at interactive activities — all for free.

There's entertainment, too:

• 10:30 a.m.: Opening ceremony and lion dance.
• 11 a.m.: Honolulu Brass Quintet.
• 11:45 a.m.: George and Keoki Kahumoku, slack-key guitar.
• 12:45 p.m.: Galliard String Quartet.
• 1:45 p.m.: Miyashiro Soho Kai, Okinawan koto.

Art activities include:

• Rubberstamping with Shirley Hasenyager, Mari Sakamoto, Terry Hildebrand, Howard Farrant, James Koga and Kim Chai.
• Sculpture and relief rubbing Satoru Abe, Fred Roster, John Koga, Carl Pao and Jason Teraoka.
• Mixed-media collage with A. Kimberlin Blackburn, Ira Ono, Doug Young, Babs Miyano-Young, Carol Yotsuda and Harry Tsuchidana.

Since opening last November with a celebration, the museum has received more than 25,000 visitors, according to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

Hours are 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. 586-0900. For a map of free parking areas, see www.hawaii.gov/sfca.