The University of Hawaii Art Gallery is
pleased to announce updates to the special events
for Degrees of
Distinction: Alumni Invitational
Exhibition, open from October 25
through December 11, 2009. This exhibition features 24 artists and art
historians educated at the Department of Art and Art History, University of
Hawai'i at Manoa, who are recognized for their work and for their contributions
as artists, educators, designers, researchers, and museum professionals. The
updated announcement is below and in the attachment.
You are invited to attend the special events
for Degrees of
Distinction:
Artists Who Work in
Museums
Panel
discussion
Sunday, October 25,
1:30-3:00, Art
Auditorium
Panelists:
Willa
Cox, Registrar's Art Storeroom Manager,
Storeroom One Manager, The Metropolitan Museum of
Art
James
Kuroda, Senior Exhibit Specialist,
Hawai'i State Art Museum
Aaron
Padilla, Assistant Curator, Education
Department, Honolulu Academy of
Arts
Gordon
Sasaki, Teaching Artist and Educator,
The Museum of Modern Art
Inger
Tully, Curator of Exhibitions, The
Contemporary Museum
Moderator: Lisa
Yoshihara, Director, University of Hawai'i Art Gallery
Opening
Reception
Sunday, October 25,
3:00-5:00, UH Art Gallery
Many of the
artists will be in attendance.
(NEW
EVENT!)
Visiting Artists
Talks by Jason Minami and Gordon
Sasaki
Wednesday, October 28,
7:00-8:30 p.m.
Art Auditorium, Art
Building, UHM
Jason
Minami is the studio manager and
instructor at Glassroots in Newark, New Jersey. He teaches glassblowing at
GlassRoots, a non-profit organization built on the concept that communities can
be transformed and elevated by combining youth, business, and the
arts.
Gordon
Sasaki
presents Reflections on Art +
Life. An educator at The Museum of
Modern Art, New York City, has worked with special needs groups for over 20
years. Sasaki, an advocate for the arts for people with special needs, has used
a manual wheelchair since 1982 following an automobile accident.
(NEW LECTURE
TITLE!)
Behind
Blythe: Creative Direction Behind a Pop Cult
Icon
Presented by Junko
Wong, Creative Director and Arts
Entrepreneur
Lecture and
book-signing of Na Wahine
'Auli'i, a story of Blythe's visit to
Hawaii
Tuesday, November 17, 6:00
p.m.
Art Auditorium, Art Building,
UHM
Junko
Wong, is the founder and president of
Cross World Connections International, a firm that represents international
artists and illustrators, operates three stores and an online illustration
school. A driving force in the designer toy culture, she is the executive
producer and creative director of the Blythe doll, fashionable and
highly-desired collectible. Wong has lived in Japan since 1983.
Tours
Every
Sunday beginning November 1 from 2:00-3:00, UH Art Gallery
Gallery hours are Monday - Friday 10:30-5:00;
Sunday 12:00-5:00. Closed Saturday; November 11, Veterans Day; and November 26,
Thanksgiving Day. Admission to the gallery is always free. Parking fees may
apply.
We look forward to your visit!
Mahalo,
Sharon
Tasaka
Associate
Director
University of Hawaii Art
Gallery
2535 McCarthy
Mall
Honolulu, HI
96822
ph:
808-956-6888
fax:
808-956-9659
gallery@hawaii.edu
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