 College of Arts &
Humanities
Department of Art & Art
History
University of Hawai‘i Art
Gallery
2535 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu,
Hawai‘i 96822
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PRESS INFORMATION: FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
CONTACT (808) 956-6888 Lisa
Yoshihara, Director
(808) 956-6888 Sharon Tasaka,
Associate Director
email:
gallery@hawaii.edu
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII ART GALLERY PLACES
IN
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUM
PUBLICATIONS DESIGN COMPETITION
The University of Hawai‘i Art Gallery was
selected as a winner of the American Association
of
Museums (AAM) 2010 Museum Publications Design
Competition in the Exhibition
Catalogues
category, placing with other
institutions with operating budgets under
$750,000.
The University of Hawai‘i Art
Gallery won Honorable Mention for its publication Writing with
Thread:
Traditional Textiles of
Southwest Chinese Minorities, designed by Kelli Ann Harada,
Watumull
Grant for Museum Studies in the Arts
intern and recent Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate. The
elegant
catalogue contains nine scholarly essays
and 345 stunning color images of the rich and
intricate
textiles and costumes. The 430-page
catalogue is an outstanding and rare publication that
provides
seminal and significant contributions to
the fields of textiles and costume research.
The catalogue accompanied Writing with Thread:
Traditional Textiles of Southwest
Chinese
Minorities, an
exhibition of over 500 of the finest and historically significant textiles and
costumes of
Southwest China that was held at the
UH Art Gallery from September 21 to November 30, 2008
and
subsequently traveled to the Chazen Museum of
Art, Madison, Wisconsin and the Museum
of
International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The collection, on loan from Taiwan-based
collector
Huang Ying Feng, focused on a region of
topographic, climatic and human diversity—home to 31
of
China's 56 ethnic groups.“We are very
pleased once again to have our national peers recognize a UH Art Gallery
publication
for the quality of its design,”
commented UH Art Gallery Director Lisa Yoshihara. “The
award
highlights the role excellence in design
plays in communicating our exhibition program. We are
very
committed to providing educational
opportunities for our students to work
alongside
faculty and staff.”
Previously, the UH Art Gallery’s publication
Excelling the Work of Heaven: Personal Adornment
from
China designed by Christopher
Hendricks received an honorable mention in the 2008 AAM
Museum
Publications Design Competition in the
Exhibition Catalogues category.
The 30th annual
AAM Publications Design Competition drew 655 entries from 260
international
institutions. The Writing
with Thread catalogue was among more than 160 books,
catalogues,
posters, invitations, press kits and
other materials that were selected as winners bestowed in
15
categories. The only national, juried
competition of its kind, this competition recognizes
and
encourages excellence in the graphic design
of museum publications. Its winners are chosen
for
their overall design excellence, creativity
and ability to express an institution’s personality, mission
or
special features. The panel of judges includes
graphic designers, museum professionals
and
publishers. Competing institutions are
divided according to budget: museums with annual
operating
budgets under $750,000 and those with
budgets of $750,000 or more.
Writing with Thread: Traditional Textiles of
Southwest Chinese Minorities catalogue
is
available for $50.00 at the University of
Hawai‘i Art Gallery; $50.00 + $7.00 shipping (media mail);
or
$13.50 (priority mail) within the U.S. Checks
should be made payable to UH Art Gallery and sent
to
UH Art Gallery, Department of Art & Art
History, 2535 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822.
Shipping
charges for multiple copies and foreign
destinations will be determined on an individual basis. For
a
list of publications by the UH Art Gallery go
to
http://www.hawaii.edu/artgallery/publications.html
About the University of Hawai‘i Art
Gallery
Since its inception in 1976 the
University of Hawai‘i Art Gallery has developed a national
and
international reputation for the quality of
its exhibitions and publications both in content and
design.
Five exhibitions received the
distinguished Print Casebooks Best in Exhibition Design
Awards.
Many of the gallery’s
publications, which have increasingly emphasized the educational
component
of an exhibition, have been recognized
in the annual Pele competition of the American
Advertising
Federation, Hawai‘i District,
and the Hawaii’s 5-0 competition of the American Institute of
Graphic
Arts, Honolulu Chapter.
University of Hawai‘i
System
Established in 1907 and fully
accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the University
of
Hawai‘i is the state’s sole public
system of higher education. The UH System provides an array of
undergraduate,
graduate, and professional degrees
and community programs on 10 campuses and through educational, training,
and
research centers across the state. UH enrolls
more than 50,000 students from Hawai‘i, the U.S. mainland,
and
around the world. For more information visit
http://www.hawaii.edu
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