Posted at 9:41 a.m., Monday, February 4, 2008
Native Hawaiian Arts Market planned for May
Advertiser Staff
Bishop Museum will host a two-day Native Hawaiian Arts Market and Festival featuring the work of dozens of native artists on May 3 and 4.The Native Hawaiian Arts Market is one of the featured events for Maoli Arts Month (MAMo).
The Market is fashioned after the Heard Museum Indian Fair and Market and the Santa Fe Indian Market, two of the most popular, successful, and longest running Native Indian arts events in America.
A wide variety of quality arts and crafts created by Native Hawaiians will be available for sale, in addition to Native Hawaiian performing arts and food booths featuring island favorites.
Among the market artists featured last year were master woodcarver Solomon Apio; fiber artists Maile Andrade; painters Ipo Nihipali, Joe Dowson, Kaui Chun, Sol Enos, Lufi Luteru, and Meala Bishop; feather artists Auntie Mary Lou Kekeuwa, Paulette Kahalepuna, JoAnne Kahanamoku Sterling, and Audrey Wagner; stonework artists Henry Hopfe and Kunane Wooton; and mixed medi artists Imaikalani Kalahele, Bob Frietas, and Puni Kukahiko, and many, many others. Many of these same artists will participate again this year.
Demonstrations, workshops, and performances will take place throughout the day.
For more information about MAMo or participating in Bishop Museum's 3rd Annual Native Hawaiian Arts Market and Festival, call 847-3511 or go to www.bishopmuseum.org or www.maoliartsmonth.org.
