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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 ©1999-2008 All rights reserved. All art images copywrited by the individual artists. Mahalo to Hawaii Link |
ART KAUAI 2008 September 13 through October 30,
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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. UPCOMING: ART KAUAI 2008 Call for entries: Jurors: Lisa Yoshihara and Wayne Kawamoto from University of Hawaii Art Gallery, UH Manoa, Honolulu. September 13 through October 30,
2008 Entries due Sept. 6, 10 am to 4 pm at Kukui Grove. Slide lecture: Monday, September 8, at 5:30 pm at Kukui Grove Center (Unit B-6) Yoshihara and Kawamoto will give a free slide presentation based on the exhibition "Excelling the Work of Heaven: Personal Adornment from China." Click above for more information and entry details for Art Kauai 2008.
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Events
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exhibits and other events.
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. Click above for more details. KSA MEMBERSHIP SHOW
2008  SMALL
WORKS - HOLIDAY 2007-2008
ART KAUAI
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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.
Monday, September 8, at 5:30 pm at Kukui Grove Center (Unit B-6) In conjunction with the Kauai
Society of Artist's Art Kauai 2008 exhibition, there will be
a free slide presentation with exhibition jurors Lisa
Yoshihara and Wayne Kawamoto from the University of Hawaii
at Manoa Art Gallery on Monday, September 6, at 5:30 pm at
Kukui Grove Center (Unit B-6). Yoshihara and Kawamoto will
be showing images from the award-winning exhibition
"Excelling the Work of Heaven: Personal Adornment from
China" co-curated by Yoshihara and held at the University of
Hawaii Art Gallery in Fall 2007 that featured 700 exquisite
objects of personal adornment made of silver, jade,
kingfisher feathers, ivory, precious stones, and coral
predominantly created during late imperial China
(1368&endash;1911). It was a golden age where artisans
transformed materials beyond function to levels of
perfection through their virtuosic techniques. The adornment
worn by both men and women provides insight into the social
structure of the time, culture, myths, folklore, literary
works, and religious ideas. "It was a fascinating
exhibition," says Yoshihara, "organized through the
following interpretative areas: Virtuosic Technique, Form
and Function, Culture, Auspicious Symbols, Identity and
Social Status, giving insight to Chinese tradition and
culture, much still practiced today."
July 1 marked the beginning of a new fiscal year for KSA, and time for a new board of directors election. If you were a current paid member at the time you have already received a ballot in the mail. The new board will be announced at the Annual Meeting held during the Art Kauai opening reception on Sept. 13. Mahalo to the following continuing and new members who have so generously volunteered to be on the ballot and help guide KSA in the new year: Sally French, Charles Davis, Devi Town, Liedeke Bulder, Carol Ann Davis, Nazira De Marchi, Elizabeth Ferris, Nancy Forbes, Laurel Francis, Gloria Hope, and Ralph Mossman.
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..
Mahalo to the Kauai Bonsai
enthusiasts who, at KSA's invitation, displayed examples of
their living artform during a two day event on July 11 and
12, 2008 at the Kukui Grove exhibit space. Bonsai, the
meticulous crafting of a living tree or plant into a
miniature reflection of its full grown nature, is pursued by
a dedicated group on Kauai, with some carefully tended
creations taking decades to reach their current
forms.
Mahalo to (Dede) Gentry Day for her
efforts in organizing the KSA exhibition at the Red Clay
Jazz Festival in May. Over 400 viewers perused the one day
exhibit. Ms. Day also built the custom outdoor display
panels, which will come in handy at future KSA
events.
KSA, in conjunction with the UH
Manoa "Intersections" Visiting Artist Program, sponsored a
free public lecture with Kirby Gookin --New York curator,
public artist, art historian, and critic-- on February 23,
2008, at Kukui Grove. Gookin has spent two decades wrestling
with concepts of originality and exploring copies,
copyrights, cloning and aspects of genetics as related both
to art and society. He showed images and discussed his work
as a founding member of GRATIS, a collective formed in 1994
to create copyright-free public projects on both sides of
the Atlantic. As a writer for many art publications, a
Director at White Columns, N.Y., and a Professor at N.Y.U.
teaching Critical Studies in the Dept. of Art and Art
Professions, Gookin presented his observations on
contemporary art and specifically issues revolving around
art and copyright. He is currently preparing a book on the
aesthetic foundations of eugenic practices titled Eugenics
and the Aesthetics of Ideal Beauty.
For other current and
upcoming exhibitions, events, and opportunities click
here. Includes member exhibitions, news, and other
art events on Kauai and beyond.
KSA has begun sponsoring interim
exhibitions, such as the recent Digital Art show, in an
attempt to fully utilize our generously donated exhibition
space at Kukui Grove and to offer Kauai artists and the
public as many visual arts exhibition opportunities as
possible. These are informal exhibitions, by KSA members
and, hopefully, other Kauai art groups on the island, that
will take place between KSA's three regular exhibitions. So
far, the task of organizing these additional exhibitions has
fallen largely on the already busy KSA board and regular
volunteers. KSA is grateful to those who have taken on the
extra challenge and workload. The prospect of back to back
shows with no breaks, however, is a daunting one for
volunteers. In addition to more work, there are the added
expenses of electricity for the space, and other supplies
and materials related to the exhibitions. It will be
absolutely necessary, if these events are to continue, that
KSA members show their support by participating and
volunteering whenever and however you can. ~Mahalo from KSA
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