Print exhibits make 'Lasting Impressions'
Advertiser Staff
| • | 'Lasting Impressions: Printing & Engraving in Hawai'i'
9 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesdays through Saturdays, through June 26 Mission Houses Museum, $6 531-0481 |
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The exhibition includes rare, historic printed material and works by contemporary artists, as well as a variety of events, gallery talks, demonstrations, lectures and family activities.
Among the exhibits: a 19th-century printing press; a rare series of copperplate engravings and prints produced in Lahainaluna, Maui, in the 1830s; early hymnals and religious materials; the first Hawaiian-language children's book; and public notices and announcements from the ruling ali'i. Exhibits include works from six contemporary Honolulu printmakers.
The Brain Food! Lunchtime Lecture Series will be held May 20, May 27 and June 10 at the museum's Winterbourne Tea Parlor with guest speakers, including a printmaker, an expert on the Hawaiian Bible, and a children's book author and bookmaker. Printmaker Jared Wickware begins the series May 20.
Lectures on how the printed word influenced Hawaiian culture are April 22, May 6 and May 12 at 7 p.m. Noenoe Silva, assistant professor of political science at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa, begins the series Thursday on "Ka Leo o ka Lahui: Native Voices of Resistance in Hawaiian Language Newspapers."
There will be demonstrations of the museum's historic printing press Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, noon to 1 p.m., in the museum's printing office.
Family printmaking activities take place Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Mission Houses Museum will participate in Super Saturday Capital Day on May 15, with free activities in celebration of National Historic Preservation Week and the exhibition. Storytellers and kupuna will offer "Memories of Home."
