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NOVEMBER 2024

FIRST FRIDAY

Fashion showcase with Crystal Rose and Heavenly, live music with Alecia Kanamu, Max High, and Izik; Art+Flea urban market.
Free admission, all ages welcome.

Alecia Kanamu and Boris Garcia performing SZA “The Weekend” (cover) live at Yoga Under the Palms.

Singer/songwriter Izik performing “Far Away Home” on HI Sessions in 2018. “Far Away Home” is an original song from his debut album, “Obsidian”. Izik’s full set at the November 2019 First Friday at the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum is also on YouTube: Mixtisque X November First Friday (Full Movie).

Max High live at AGS Honolulu in November 2023. Electronic synth loops, samples, and flute ambience.
NOVEMBER EVENTS


FIRST FRIDAY
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1, 5-9 PM
Fashion, live music and Art + Flea

•   Alecia Kanamu 6-7 p.m.

•   Fashion show 7-8 p.m.

•   Izik 8-9 p.m.

•   House of Bloom live painting

•   All museum galleries open

•   Food and beverage vendors

FIRST FRIDAY


FRIDAY NIGHT TEMPO
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15, 5:00 - 9:00 PM

Free, family-friendly evening of live music at Capitol Modern. Live jazz and soul music outdoors.

Galleries and Sculpture Garden will be open, with Art + Flea urban market and food/beverage vendors.

FRIDAY NIGHT TEMPO



EXHIBITS CLOSING NOV 16

“Pilina” and “Our Sea of Islands”
last day to view Saturday November 16
Free admission, Monday - Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Closed on Sundays and some state holidays.

School groups are welcomed! For more information on bringing a school group (or other group), please contact Shirley Lam, Museum Education Coordinator, at info@CapitolModern.org or (808) 586-0900.

Photo: museum visitors viewing the “Pilina” exhibit.

OUR SEA OF ISLANDS
THROUGH NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Rather than considering these islands as an exotic other, scholar and cultural practitioner Epeli Hauʻofa coined the term “Our Sea of Islands” and challenged the world to see the Pacific region as a metropolis for engagement of all kinds.

Curated by Dr. C. Makanani Salā and Alyssa Chau of Gravitas Pasifika.
PILINA
THROUGH NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Festival of the Pacific Arts and Culture 50th Anniversary Exhibition, highlighting the history of the festival.

Curated by Dr. Frances Koya Vakaʻuta and Alyssa Chau.


HULA KIʻI
THROUGH DECEMBER 2024

Hula Kiʻi is an ancient practice involving the use of a puppet and/or your own body to create images and share stories.

Curated by the Hula Preservation Society.
ʻAI Ā MANŌ
THROUGH DECEMBER 2024

Artworks by Native Hawaiian contemporary artists and culture bearers, selected from the Art in Public Places Collection of the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

Curated by Kapulani Landgraf, Kaili Chun, and Drew Broderick.


NĀ AKUA ĀKEA
THROUGH DECEMBER 2024

Display of the artistic and weaving endeavors of Kumulā‘au and Haunani Balino-Sing and students. Ancestral images, demigods, goddesses, shapeshifters, and ʻaumakua.

Sponsored by the National Organization for Traditional Artists Exchange (NOTAE).


VIDEO TOUR
Ke Kumu Hawaiʻi has shared a video tour of the “Nā Akua Ākea” exhibit, which they curated, featuring work by their students. View the video tour on YouTube: youtu.be/yIj_OK9DD4M.

CALLS FOR STUDENT ARTISTS


•   2025 Hawaiʻi Regional Scholastic Art Awards Competition. The entry portal for the 2025 Hawaiʻi Regional Scholastic Art Awards competition is now open! Submissions are due by December 15, 2024, through the Scholastic Art Awards portal. Hawaiʻi students grades 7-12 (ages 13 and up) are eligible to enter. Gold Key award-winning artworks will be displayed at Capitol Modern February 22 - March 22, 2024. For more information and to enter, please visit ArtAndWriting.org/regions/HI001A.

•   ʻIolani Palace King Kalākaua Essay Contest. Hawaiʻi students K-12. Entries due by November 11, 2024. For more information, please visit the ʻIolani Palace website: IolaniPalace.org/king-kalakaua-essay-contest.

•   NOAA Annual Marine Debris Program Art Contest, submissions due by December 13, 2024. Students grades K-8 from the United States and U.S. Territories. For details, please visit the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website: MarineDebris.noaa.gov/annual-noaa-marine-debris-program-art-contest-and-calendar.

•   ʻŌlelo Community Media Youth Xchange Statewide Student Video Competition, categories for Hawaiʻi students K-12, K-8, High school and college students. Entries due by March 14, 2025. Learn more on the ʻŌlelo Community Media website: olelo.org/yxc2025/contest.

•   Science Without Borders 2025 International Student Art Contest, open to primary and secondary school students 11 – 19 years old. Entries must be received by March 3, 2025. For more information and application instructions, please go to the Living Oceans Foundation website: LivingOceansFoundation.org/education/science-without-borders-challenge.

A longer list of student art contests is available in the November 2024 Calls for Artists, Grants, Jobs, and Other Opportunities news post on the SFCA website.

Photo: museum visitors viewing the 2024 Hawaiʻi Regional Scholastic Art Awards exhibit at Capitol Modern.

Find more Calls for Artists and Other Opportunities


BEYOND CAPITOL MODERN

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIʻI ART EXHIBITS

Art exhibits at Oʻahu University of Hawaiʻi system galleries (free and open to the public):

•   “Expressions of Gratitude: Works of Art from the East-West Center Collection” through November 27, 2024 at the East-West Center (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa). Each work of art in the East-West Center Collection provides a window to understanding the cultures and the arts of the vibrant Asia Pacific region.

•   “Bitter Sweet” exhibit featuring young women painters in Hawaiʻi at the Hōʻikeākea Gallery (Leeward Community College), through November 2, 2024.

•   “The OG’s: Photographers of the Silver Gelatin Process” showcasing the work of eleven influential Hawaiʻi photographers and several photos from the Art in Public Places Collection of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Gallery ʻIolani (Windward Community College) through December 6, 2024. Discussion programs on Saturdays, 2 - 3:30 p.m., November 2, 9, 23, 30.

Capitol Modern is the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum, operated by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA) as a part of the SFCA Art in Public Places Program.

Photo: Jan Becket, “Pahulu (?) Heiau, Koʻolaupoko” black and white photograph, Art in Public Places Collection of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Currently on display in “The OG’s: Photographers of the Silver Gelatin Process” at Gallery ʻIolani.

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