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Posted on: Sunday, March 27, 2005

Art lectures on the table

Advertiser Staff

The Hawai'i State Art Museum hosts Artlunch, a free noontime art appreciation lecture program, on the last Tuesday of each month.

The event has been designed with Honolulu's downtown business community in mind.

The museum offers talks on connoisseurship, exhibitions and artists in the collection, giving downtowners a chance to learn more about the arts and to meet artists and professionals in the museum field.

Talks begin at noon and will be held in the museum's Multipurpose Room on the first floor of the historic building, 250 South Hotel St.

Tuesday: "Creating an Exhibit: From Notion to Fruition." Denise Kosaka, the curator for the museum's current special exhibition, "Reflecting Hawai'i," speaks on the nuts and bolts of putting together the exhibit. The show started with a competitive statewide call for artworks. The exhibition features paintings, mixed media, works on paper, and black and white photographs.

April 26: "Multi-Media Art Forms in Hawai'i and Europe." Mark Kadota, a teaching artist in the Department of Education's Artists in the Schools Program, will discuss his work as a painter, potter, dancer, musician, writer, teacher, curator and performance artist. Kadota was born in Los Angeles in 1951 and moved to Hawai'i in 1971.

May 31: "Documentary Photography, History and the Photographer's Vision." Franco Salmoiraghi, a photographer and lecturer at Pacific New Media, has lived and photographed in Hawai'i since 1968. His photographs are featured in many books and periodicals, locally and internationally. He will discuss his desire to photograph the landscape, its people and places, clearly and directly, so that the essence of their spirit is illuminated. His black and white photographic prints of Hawai'i are extensively represented in the collection of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and many other collections.

The Artlunch free lecture series is presented by the Art in Public Places Program of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. For information, call 586-9958.

For information on the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and its grants, programs and services, the Hawai'i State Art Museum and Hawai'i arts and culture events, see www.hawaii.gov/sfca.