University Of Hawai'i Art Gallery - Abigail Romanchak Public Lecture Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 5:00 pm

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The Art Gallery, Commons Gallery,

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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I AT MĀNOA

Mai Nā Kūpuna Mai

From the Ancestors
Abigail Romanchak public lecture

Date: January 18, 2024, Thursday, 5:00--6:00 PM
Location: Art Building, Room #101, UH Mānoa

Abigail Kahilikia Romanchak's work shows nationally and internationally. Her work belongs to many public and private collections including, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Australia National Museum, the White House, the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Hawaiʻi State Art Museum, Hanapi Foundation, Jon Hara Associates, Inc. Architects, the Nature Conservancy of Hawaiʻi, Tori Richard, the Four Seasons and Kona Village, Hawaiʻi. She received the Ellen Craig Choy Award, as most outstanding artist, in the 2010 Biennial IX at the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu. In 2015, She was awarded the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation fellowship. This fellowship made it possible for Abigail Kahilikia Romanchak to produce a new body of work for a group exhibition, ‘Aloha ‘Aina' at The Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover, Germany, Galerie Rash, Kassel, Germany, Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany. In 2016, she was a Joan Mitchell Fellowship nominee. In the Fall of 2017, Abigail Kahilikia Romanchak exhibited her work in a solo exhibit, Ground with fellow printmaker, Charles Cohan, at the Honolulu Museum of Art.

This exhibition speaks of intergenerational knowledge and the inspiration that is drawn from our kūpuna. It focuses on the work of two artists who are treasures of Hawaiʻi, and were innovators of the Hawaiian Renaissance of the 1980's, Ivy Hāliʻimaile Andrade and Sean Kekamakupa'aikapono Kaonohiokalani Lee Loy Browne. Both have included several artists that they have mentored and developed a relationship with to exhibit with them. Puni Jackson, Charlton Kūpa‘a Hee, Kawika Lum-Nelmida, Marques Hanalei Marzan, Abigail Kahilikia Romanchak, Cory Kamehanaokalā Holt Taum, and Maika'i Tubbs who are all significant artists in their own right. This exhibition celebrates the gifts that come from the ancestors and the continued innovations that each generation of artists brings to the community.

Public Programming

Gallery Walk-through

Date: January 14, 2024, Sunday, 2:00--4:00 PM
Location: Art Building, The Art Gallery

Puni Jackson public lecture

Date: January 25, 2024, Thursday, 5:00--6:00 PM
Location: Art Building, Room #101, UH Mānoa

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The Art Gallery
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2535 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822 (UH Mānoa campus)
Tue. -- Fri, & Sun. 12:00 p.m. -- 4:00 p.m.

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