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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA
University Of Hawai'i Art Gallery

‘O ka ʻāina. ‘O ka moana a me ka lani. 
Land, Sea, Air
Gallery Walkthrough
Date: Sunday, March 2, 2025 from 1:00– 2:00 PM
Location: Commons Gallery, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM)
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Reception
Date: Sunday, March 2, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Location: Commons Gallery, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM)
‘O ka ʻāina. ‘O ka moana a me ka lani. Land, Sea, Air brings together artists whose work engages with environmental issues from a feminist perspective, connecting practices rooted in O‘ahu, New York, and Australia.
O‘ahu-based Jodi Endicott gathers plastic waste from the ocean to create life-sized aquatic creatures, which serve as time capsules of human detritus. O‘ahu-based artist, Nanea Lum, uses natural processes and materials, such as earthen pigments and kapa beaten from wauke bark, in a ceremonial fashion to celebrate the ʻāina of Mānoa. New York-based Kathleen Vance’s Traveling Landscapes explore the accessibility of pristine landscapes and the concept of land as a possession. She often engineers a moving water stream within her sculptures. Zoe Wetherall is based in Australia and New York. The bird’s-eye perspective in her aerial photography contrasts the natural environment with the banality of human interventions. These artists are engaged in a conversation about the environment as one earth, connected across thousands of miles.

Mud, Myth, and Memory 
Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition
Reception
Date: Sunday, March 2, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Location: The Art Gallery, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM)
Mud, Myth and Memory explores the points in which these three artists meet, converge, and diverge. A theme of the relationship between body, spirit and land weaves through the pieces, speaking to the entanglements that make us human. These ideas are approached through a variety of media and stylistic approaches. Through digitally and physically manipulated photographs, Rosie Connelly explores the imprint of trauma on the land, and melting of the boundaries between the sacred and profane as well as the past and present. Hala Megahy’s sculptural work examines the threshold between self and others, body and spirit, separation and oneness, life and death, evoking creativity at the crux of vulnerability and process. Through the re-use of traditional craft materials, Hiroko Sakurai creates a portal of reflection, bringing forth collective memories and an experience of our interconnectedness with nature. In this time of ecological crisis, each artist reminds us that we are deeply connected to the land and to each other. Congratulations to the Masters of Fine Arts candidates!
Featuring:
Rosie Connelly, Hala Megahy, and Hiroko Sakurai
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An Afternoon with Related Tactics 
Talk + Workshop + Pupus
Date: Monday, March 10, 2025 from 4:00– 6:30 PM
Location: Art 215, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM)
Related Tactics (Michele Carlson & Weston Teruya) will discuss their collective’s projects, which they create at the intersection of race, culture, and public memory through trans-disciplinary exchanges, collective making, and dialog. They will also give a behind-the-scenes look at their most recent project, Ready, created with an invited multidisciplinary cohort of local and visiting artists here at UHM on March 6-8. Ready is an iterative project exploring what it means to be ‘ready’ in our current cultural and political moment, to assess ourselves, and to intervene where necessary, with materials that range from the poetic to direct actions.
 
MORE about Michele Carlson, our Clifford Iwao Arinaga Memorial Fund Artist in Residence. Carlson was born in Seoul, Korea and raised in Seattle, Washington. From 2016 to 2019 she was as an associate professor of visual and critical studies at California College of the Arts, where she taught across the fields of critical theory and studio arts. She currently teaches at George Washington University as Associate Professor of printmaking. In her visual works on paper, Carlson often uses speculative, imaginative strategies to explore how humans engage collectively and affect one another. As a writer, she uses various writing styles to process the ways visual and material cultures reflect the lived experiences of diverse social groups. She is currently working on a hybrid memoir titled The Visits, which examines the visual culture of incarceration as a means to explore constructions of kinship and family.


She is in residence with her Related Tactics co-founder Weston Teruya. Teruya was born and raised on Oahu and lives in Oakland, CA. He received his MFA in painting and drawing and MA in visual and critical studies from California College of the Arts. For three seasons (2017-19), he produced and hosted (un)making, an interview-based podcast highlighting the work of artists & cultural producers of color through the West Coast online arts writing and criticism publication, Art Practical. In his individual work, he examines the social dynamics and histories of specific sites and communities, with listening and inquiry as the starting point for creative reflection and making.

Together with others, they are Related Tactics, a collective that facilitates, makes, and curates spaces for young artists to discuss and address systemic racial inequities collectively. Come find out more on March 10th!
 
Special thanks to the Clifford Iwao Arinaga Memorial Fund for visiting artists.
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