The chapbooks for poetry publisher Tinfish Press, founded by poet Susan M. Schultz in 1995, have long been one of the most innovatively designed objects produced in Honolulu. University of Hawai'i art department chair Gaye Chan is behind the clever looks.

Now the press's Web site branches out into art criticism with the new section About Looking.

The first installment is "Composite Identities," by Jaimey Hamilton, assistant professor of contemporary art at UH. He casts his thoughts on Dana Forsberg's project "Drawn to Remember."

"It is our hope," says Chan, "that About Looking will help carve out a much-yearned-for space for critical engagement with contemporary art in Hawai'i and the Pacific."

LEARN MORE: To read About Looking, go to www.tinfishpress.com/art.html.

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