September 10 - November 4
Artwork Receiving Day: Tuesday, August 30 / 9am-6pm @ Hui No’eau
Online Exhibition Info Session: Tuesday, May 24th / 3pm
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 10 / 3-6pm
Jurors: Gabrielle Anderman, Visual Artist, and Chuck Chimera, Botanist for Hawaii Invasive Species Council
TALK STORY THURSDAYS
The Hui & East Maui Watershed Partnership will host a different industry leader from the field of conservation. Let’s talk about conservation on Maui at the Hui!
October 20th at 4pm: Zach Pezzillo, Maui Nui Plant Extinction Prevention Program Technician
November 3rd at 4pm: Pat Bily, Retired Biologist from The Nature Conservancy Maui
ABOUT MĀLAMA WAO AKUA
Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center in collaboration with East Maui Watershed Partnership (EMWP) brings you Mālama Wao Akua (Caring for the Realm of the Gods) – a juried art exhibition celebrating the native species of Maui Nui (Maui, Lana‘i, Moloka‘i, Kaho‘olawe). We invite Maui artists to explore our watersheds and use their creative talents to raise awareness about the importance of protecting native species.
Selected artwork should be successful in sharing knowledge of the watersheds and native species with others in a meaningful way. Artwork will also be selected based upon a number of criteria, including originality of concept, creativity, technique, professionalism, and presentation. Our hope is that Maui artists of all ages will explore our watersheds and express the value that native species have within our daily life. This exhibition is sure to provide powerful visuals that celebrate Maui’s native plant and animal life. A jurying team with expertise in both art and conservation will select from among the pool of entries. Works in any medium are welcome!
Visit https://malamawaoakua.org/ for more information and Adventures for Artist opportunities!
Important Dates
Online Registration: August 17 – 30
Online Priority Registration Deadline: Wednesday, August 24th
Artwork Receiving Day: Tuesday, August 30th / 9am-6pm (Hui No‘eau)
Selection Notification (via website): by Thursday, September 1st by 6pm
Pick-up of Non-selected Work: Friday, September 2nd / 9am-4pm
Pick-up of Selected Work: Saturday, November 5th / 9am-4pm
HOW TO ENTER
1. Complete online registration between Aug. 17 - 30.
Online Registration must be completed PRIOR to dropping off artwork on receiving day
2. Print & fill out artwork labels and attach to the back upper right hand corner of artwork.
3. Drop off artwork on Tuesday, Aug. 3oth from 9am-6pm during our drive-through artwork receiving day.
TEACHERS
If you are submitting entries as a teacher for a youth students in the elementary, middle or high school division you may submit paper entry forms. Please note you will have to provide payment on receiving day in the form of a credit/debit card or check, NO CASH will be accepted. Please make checks payable to Hui No’eau Visual Arts Center.
Make sure one paper entry form is completed for each student for each piece being entered
Complete a teacher cover sheet
Attach artwork labels to the back upper right hand corner of artwork
Bring artwork and payment (check or credit/debit card) to receiving day on Tuesday, August 3oth from 9am-6pm
ABOUT THE JURORS
Gabrielle Anderman
Gabrielle has exhibited throughout the United States and is represented in public and private collections throughout the world. She graduated with highest honors from UCLA's School of the Arts where she studied with noted artists including Lari Pittman, Barbara Drucker and Roger Herman. She spent a year studying painting at the Beaux Arts Schools in Pau and Paris. She works with mixed media and has developed a distinct style that flows between figuration and abstraction. She was raised in California and currently lives and works in Maui, Hawai‘i.
Chuck Chimera
Chuck Chimera left Buffalo, New York in 1991 for a 4-month volunteer stint at Haleakalā National Park, a position that awakened a previously unknown love of botany and resulted in an extended stay and conservation career in the Hawaiian Islands. Over the past 3 decades, he’s worked for the National Park Service, the USGS, and received a master’s degree in botany from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He now works for the Hawaii Invasive Species Council and lives in Honokaa with his artist wife Melissa and son Theo, but still gazes longingly at Haleakalā across the ʻAlenuihāhā Channel.
Adventures for Artists
Find inspiration for this year's Mālama Wao Akua Exhibition during a guided hike led by EMWP. Take a deeper look into Mauiʻs native species from the experts as they reference species acceptable for this exhibit.
TNC Waikamoi Preserve Boardwalk Hike with EMWP
Wednesday, July 13 / 8:30am-3:30pm: Boardwalk Hike
Tuesday, August / 8:30am-3:30pm: Boardwalk Hike with retired Biologist Pat Bily
Pōhakuokalā Gulch Hike at Haleakala Ranch with EMWP
Friday, July 29th / 8:30am-1pm
Contact EMWP to sign up at info@eastmauiwatershed.org or call (808)573-6999.