M.A.P. Maoli . Art . Pedagogy Collaboration Project
Maoli . Art . Pedagogy (MAP) is a real-time intervention into discourses about art in Hawai`i, especially as they pertain to the community and institutions of learning and teaching. MAP is coordinated and sponsored by the HPU Media and Cinematic Arts Program and the Department of Communication. The HPU Gallery Board helps sponsor exhibitions that invigorate discussion and engagement in the community about a wide range of artistic themes. MAP artists have exhibited paintings, illustrations, sculpture, music, electronic media including audio-video productions.
2012 Maoli . Art . Pedagogy (MAP)
Exhibition Curator: Pete Britos
Gallery Curator: Sanit and Carol Khewhok
MAP is an exhibition that features Kanaka Maoli artists exploring the intersections of art, teaching and learning in Hawai’i and the world. The artists include Carl F.K. Pao, Meleanna Meyer, Al Lagunero, Harinani Orme, Kahi Ching and Pete Britos. With the metaphor of the MAP as a framework, the artists consider how Hawaiian art teaches, re-members, explores, proposes, suggests, excavates, challenges, honors and envisions the past, present and future. What is the place of Hawaiian art in our Hawai’i culture, in our personal lives, our community, and in our understanding of what has been, and what will become? The piko, the heiau, the human body and the ki`i image are powerful symbolic sites of engagement and contestation, that intersect as well with institutional and commercial culture. In this age of pop culture saturation, and cookie cutter aesthetics, how does Hawai’i and Hawaiian art function, and what is the role of the Maoli artist? The exhibition includes insights and video commentary from the artists and other kahuna practitioners, like anthropologist Lynette Cruz and kumu hula-genealogist Cy Bridges.
MAP1 Article and Video Report
Exhibition Curator: Pete Britos
Gallery Curator: Sanit and Carol Khewhok
MAP is an exhibition that features Kanaka Maoli artists exploring the intersections of art, teaching and learning in Hawai’i and the world. The artists include Carl F.K. Pao, Meleanna Meyer, Al Lagunero, Harinani Orme, Kahi Ching and Pete Britos. With the metaphor of the MAP as a framework, the artists consider how Hawaiian art teaches, re-members, explores, proposes, suggests, excavates, challenges, honors and envisions the past, present and future. What is the place of Hawaiian art in our Hawai’i culture, in our personal lives, our community, and in our understanding of what has been, and what will become? The piko, the heiau, the human body and the ki`i image are powerful symbolic sites of engagement and contestation, that intersect as well with institutional and commercial culture. In this age of pop culture saturation, and cookie cutter aesthetics, how does Hawai’i and Hawaiian art function, and what is the role of the Maoli artist? The exhibition includes insights and video commentary from the artists and other kahuna practitioners, like anthropologist Lynette Cruz and kumu hula-genealogist Cy Bridges.
MAP1 Article and Video Report
2012 Maoli . Art . Pedagogy (MAP) HPU Hawaiian Speakers Series
Exhibition Curator: Pete Britos
Speaker Series Producer: Malia Smith
MAP curator Pete Britos invited artists Carl F. K. Pao and Meleanna Meyer to the HPU Fort Street Mall campus to speak publicly with students, faculty and staff.
The artists brought with them art to share, and spoke for over an hour with about 100 students, faculty and staff. Students video taped the event and got some rare one-on-one time with several of the most knowledgeable local and Hawaiian artists on the island of O`ahu.
Exhibition Curator: Pete Britos
Speaker Series Producer: Malia Smith
MAP curator Pete Britos invited artists Carl F. K. Pao and Meleanna Meyer to the HPU Fort Street Mall campus to speak publicly with students, faculty and staff.
The artists brought with them art to share, and spoke for over an hour with about 100 students, faculty and staff. Students video taped the event and got some rare one-on-one time with several of the most knowledgeable local and Hawaiian artists on the island of O`ahu.
Collaborators include: HPU Art Gallery Board, Na Mea Hawai`i Native Books, Black Sand Productions, HPU Media and Cinematic Arts, HPU Department of Communication, HPU Arts and Humanities Department, Hawai`i Pacific News, Hawai`i Pacific Network, The Kalamalama.