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 A nonprofit visual arts organization offering exhibition and educational opportunities for Kauai artists, residents, and visitors. e-mail:  KSA, P.O. Box 3344, Lihue, HI 96766 Kauai Society of Artists ©1999-2009 All rights reserved. All art images copywrited by the individual artists. Mahalo to Hawaii Link  |
BYTE ME 2 A DIGITAL ART EXHIBITION May 30 through June 26, 2009 at Kukui Grove Exhibit Hall. Opening Reception, Saturday. May 30, 5 to 8 PM Juror: Scott Groeniger- digital artist and Assistant Professor of Digital Imaging at The University of Hawaii at Manoa. In Review: KSA Members Show - March 2009 February 28 through March 27, 2009 Kukui Grove Exhibition Hall (Unit B-6), Lihue. Featured works by 64 Kauai artists. Click above for more info. See Art News and Events below for more KSA events and news KSA Gallery with over 40 Kauai artists Workshops, exhibits, and other events including member news, classes, exhibitions, and more. General exhibit and artwork entry criteria and information for KSA exhibitions. |
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Upcoming, current, and past KSA group exhibitions plus links to individual member shows and other exhibitions. Click on exhibitions below for more information, reviews, and photos. Click here For general exhibit and artwork entry criteria and information for KSA exhibitions.
UPCOMING:
.Free lecture presentation Sunday, May 31, 4:30 PM: Scott Groeniger will give a free lecture presentation titled "Input/Output: Photo-centric Abstraction and the Transformation of Pixels to Ink." Groeniger, a digital artist and Assistant Professor of Digital Imaging at UH, Manoa will discuss the origins, conceptual foundations, and contemporary tools/processes of digital imaging. He will show samples of his work and discuss the ideas and processes inherent to digital art. The talk will also highlight the work of early pioneers in the field of digital imaging, relevant exhibitions, tools, contemporary techniques, as well as obstacles and prejudices the digital image-maker faces. Click above for more entry and juror information. Other KSA Exhibitions coming up (note: some events may be tentative and subject to change without notice): RHYTHM OF THE HEART, RHYTHM OF THE EARTH: Theme exhibition. Entry Sat., July 25, Opening Reception July 31, continues through Aug. 29. Details and other events in conjunction with exhibit TBA. ART KAUAI 2009: Juror- Theresa Papanikolas, Ph.D., curator of European and American Art at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Entry day Sept. 12, 2009. Opening Reception Sept. 19, continues through Oct. 23. Entry details and lecture by juror TBA. OCTOBER FEST/FREAKY FRIDAY: Oct. 19-31, 2009 with tentative events planned such as workshops (mask making, scary art, etc.) a Halloween Costume/Mask contest and prizes. Details TBA. SMALL WORKS SHOW 2009: Entry day Nov. 14, Opening reception Nov. 21, runs through Jan. 8, 2010. Entry details and Juror/lecture TBA. For questions (or to volunteer
for an event!) please
contact Sally French (KSA President) at 651-5822 or Liedeke
Bulder (KSA Secretary) at 652-8234. CURRENT:
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RECENT: Members Show
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Click above for more information on the Small Works Show.
ART KAUAI
2008 Click above for more information and entry details for Art Kauai 2008. 
Exhibition of digital art entirely or partially created using digital technology, with an emphasis on (but not limited to) the creative use of computer software.  KSA MEMBERSHIP SHOW
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Past KSA Exhibitions and Events Including photos and highlights going back to 1999.. OTHER EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS including individual member
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KSA news, workshops, and events plus links to other art opportunities of interest to Kauai artists, residents, and visitors. Other events at Kukui Grove Exhibition Hall:
The Kauai Society of Artists presented a free lecture with Patrick Nagatani, photographer and professor emeritus at the University of New Mexico, on Wednesday, March 18, at 7 PM in the Kukui Grove Exhibition Hall (Unit B-6) in Lihue. Mr. Nagatani was in Hawaii courtesy of the University of Hawaii Intersections program. Born in Chicago in 1945, Nagatani is a Japanese-American (his father's family is from Hiroshima) who grew up in a Polish neighborhood and was raised a Catholic. He has a design background and has painted Hollywood movie sets and worked with special effects, which led to his obsession with building scale models. From 1983-1989 he collaborated with artist Andree Tracey, building and photographing extensive, theatrical "tableaux." Nagatani moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1987, where his work focused on nuclear power and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. A member of the Atomic Photographers Guild, he teaches photography at the University of New Mexico. Nagatani's long and eminent career can be compared to that of a magician. His images are spellbinding: full of color, multiple layers, wonder and whimsy. But with a dexterous sleight of hand, he reveals the fictions we call history and the blind faith we often have in science. Whatever Nagatani is photographing -- people, subways, internment camps, excavations, nuclear test sites -- he concerns himself with exposing the paradoxical relationship of reality and illusion. Patrick Nagatani's career as a photographer is driven by the notion that color has healing properties. In his earliest work, he became fascinated with the symbolism and emotional power of color. Many of his on-going projects deal with the notion of chromotherapy, based on ancient traditions of using color as a remedy for our individual and social ills. A master of fabricated photo-dramas, Patrick Nagatani stages elaborate tableaux that pursue the issue of nuclear power with a sense of irony. With thorough disregard for the traditional role of photography as an objective documentation of reality, especially scientific reality, Nagatani's narratives offer an animated, color-saturated view of the nuclear and military sites of New Mexico. His images that appeared in the book Nuclear Enchantment (1991) reveal Nagatani's wry sense of humor, mastery of the constructed set, and concern for social issues. His work has been presented in one-person exhibitions at The Albuquerque Museum; the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside; CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Isla Center for the Arts at the University of Guam, Mangilao; and at the Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England, among other venues. Nagatani has received numerous honors and awards for his work. Examples of Nagatani's photography can be seen HERE. His bio/resume (from 2003) can be seen HERE. Mahalo to the University of Hawaii Intersections Program 2008-2009
Recently, KSA has become aware of an email scam targeting some Kauai artists. Although this type of scam, wherein a con artist attempts to get financial or other personal information, goods, or most often money from a victim, has been commonplace on the internet for years, it is still a threat as the scammers become more sophisticated, change their approaches, or target new victims. In this case, Kauai artists were contacted via email by a purported "buyer" for their art. With the worldwide economic downturn it is likely that scams such as this will be on the increase, with criminals becoming more desperate and more artists hoping for any chance of a sale. New and more sophisticated scams will appear. KSA reminds all artists to use special caution, especially with any unsolicited online contacts. While no one wants to lose a possible sale, a little care and common sense can save you a lot of time, money, or more. Click here for more information on what to watch for and what to do in case you think you are being scammed.
With 2008, KSA celebrates our 25th anniversary of becoming an official nonprofit visual arts organization in Hawaii. We take a look back over the 2007-2008 year..
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