KAILI CHUN, KS ’80, sculptor and installation artist, negotiates ideas of containment and exposure, agency and restraint. Process and materials transform physical spaces into unique environments commenting on contemporary issues in her work. She often constructs narratives through symbols and objects that address the impact of historical events on the present day. Organic elements are sometimes included in her pieces, and the changes they undergo during the course of an exhibition metaphorically reference the nature of culture as an evolutionary process. Chun’s diverse training includes receiving her Bachelor’s in Architecture from Princeton University, during which time she also studied with renown ceramicist Toshiko Takaezu; an MFA from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; and an apprenticeship with master canoe builder and woodworker Wright Elemakule Bowman, Sr. Numerous museums and galleries such as the University of Alaska Museum; Linden Museum Stuttgart in Germany; Museum of Art & Design, New York; Sacred Circle Gallery, Washington; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; and the Honolulu Museum of Art have exhibited Chun’s installations. Kaili has received a number of significant visual art awards. Most recently, she was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, New York City, NY (2010); Artist Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM (2008); the Individual Artist Visual Arts Fellowship in Conceptual Art (2000) and the Catherine E.B. Cox Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts (2006) from the Honolulu Academy of Arts, which culminated in the solo exhibition, “Nau ka wae, The Choice Belongs to You”. Her work is included in private and institutional collections in Hawai‘i and Germany. On Exhibition on KŪKULU O KAHIKI, on the Waikīkī end of the kahua is VERITAS II (“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth” JFK). 2012. Steel, variable dimensions. Chun’s art work examines the idea of “containment.” 40 steel cells, measuring 8-in x 8-in x eight-feet, are used to examine the various ways people impact each other and the world. The installation explores broader interpretations of complicity and participation in the imposition of social structures upon distinct cultures while concurrently acknowledging the contribution of the individual to his/her own “containment.”

CARL F.K. PAO, KS ’89, was born and raised in Kailua, O‘ahu in 1971, Carl graduated from Kamehameha Schools in 1989. He went on to earn his BFA at the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa in 1994, with an emphasis in ceramics. He was also awarded the Outstanding Senior Ceramic Student Award in his final year of study. After working from 1993 to 1996 as the Visual Arts lab assistant at the Kamehameha Schools Kapälama campus, he set off to pursue his MFA. Carl attended the prestigious Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa, where he received his master’s degree with first-class honors in 1999. He returned to Hawai‘i in 2000 to take his position as art teacher at the Kamehameha Schools High School Kapälama Visual Arts Department.

Outside of his teaching schedule, Carl continues to create his own art. He recently was the inaugural Artist in Residence at the Australian National University (ANU) College of Asia and the Pacific in July 2012; concluded a successful group exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in July; was co-owner/operator of the lodestar collective gallery in Kailua; the volunteer Arts Editor for The Contemporary Pacific journal (TCP) from 2008-2011: and is currently exhibiting in shows both locally and abroad. Carl also works on various art commissions, both commercial and private. “The new works created for the opening are inspired by the vision, persistence, and potential that this Center represents to our community." On Exhibition in ULULANI HALE is the following work by Carl Pao: 'Ewa-ma uka: HĀLOA. 2012. Acrylic on building paper.

'Ewa: MAKAWALU. 2012. Acrylic on building paper.

'Ewa-ma kai: KE KŪKULU: KAMANAWA. 2012. Acrylic on building paper.

Waikīkī-ma uka: KA‘IWAKĪLOUMOKU. 2012. Acrylic on building paper.

Waikīkī: HŌ‘AILONA. 2012. Acrylic on building paper.

Waikīkī-ma kai: KE KŪKULU: KAME‘EIAMOKU. 2012. Acrylic on building paper.

KAPULANI LANDGRAF, KS ’84, was born and raised in Pü‘ahu‘ula, Kāne‘ohe. Landgraf’s books, Nā Wahi Pana o Ko‘olau Poko and Nā Wahi Kapu o Maui received Ka Palapala Po‘okela Awards for Excellence in Illustrative Books in 1995 and 2004. In 1996, she was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in photography from Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. In 1999, she received the En Foco New Works Photography Award, New York. Kapulani has exhibited photo essays on the valley of Kahakuloa, Maui; the H-3 freeway; the archaeological and cultural sites of Ko‘olau Poko; the destroyed heiau of O‘ahu; the ahupua‘a of Waiāhole; the archaeological and cultural sites of Maui; the ahupua‘a of Kailua and sand mining on Maui. Her work has been shown in Alaska, Arizona, British Colombia, Florida, Hawai‘i, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minneapolis, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Ontario, Palau, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington and Germany. She currently is an instructor of Hawaiian visual art and photography at Kapi‘olani Community College.

Native Hawaiians buried the iwi of their ancestors within the sand dunes throughout Hawai‘i. They believed the mana of the person lived in the bones. Ola nā iwi. The bones live. At Honokahua, Maui, in 1989, over a 1,000 Native Hawaiian remains were removed to build the Ritz-Carlton Kapalua resort. As a result, in 1990, the Hawai‘i State Legislature passed a bill, Act 306, which provided a process in protecting Hawai‘i burials and established burial councils for each island. Despite this 1990 law, which protects known burial sites, there is a continued pressure to develop Hawaiian ‘āina and Hawaiian iwi are constantly threatened. Na wai e ho‘ōla i nā iwi? On Exhibition at the ‘ŌLAUNIU ROOM on the lower level is Landgraf’s renowned photographic work PONOIWI a riveting response to the desecration of ancestral remains at Honokahua, Maui.

HŌʻIKEʻIKE

On Exhibition

At Kaʻiwakīloumoku

Kamehameha Schools Kapālama

Fall 2012

Featuring artistic expressions by and about

Kānaka Maoli

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