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  • Downtown Art Center Presents - The Art of Furniture Making • Kintsugi Joy: New Paintings by Lauren Okano • Honolulu Kupuna Shed Holiday Sale • The 2025 DAC Instructor Show

  • Date: Friday - 12/5/2025
    Time: 5:30 to 8 p.m
    Location:
    Downtown Art Center
    1040 A Nuuana Avenue
    Honolulu, Hawaii 96717

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Upcoming Main Gallery Exhibition
The Art of Furniture Making
On View December 5-20, 2025
First Friday Opening Reception: Friday, December 5 from 5:30 - 8 p.m.
Organized by Hawaiian Fine Furniture’s Doug Gordon, this exhibition will feature a selection of hand-crafted fine furniture pieces. Showcasing both traditional and contemporary approaches to woodworking, the collection includes chairs, tables, and functional accessories created by several of Hawaiʻi’s most accomplished furniture makers and wood artists.
Throughout the exhibition, artists will offer informal talks and live demonstrations, providing insight into their creative processes, techniques, and materials.

 
About Downtown Art Center (DAC):
Located in the Chinatown Gateway Plaza building at 1041 Nuʻuanu Ave., Second Floor, the nonprofit Downtown Art Center is an exhibition gallery and educational space for Oʻahu's arts scene. DAC is a thriving center for the arts, providing display space to showcase local artists and art organizations, classrooms for arts instruction, and more. DAC is dedicated to the revitalization of Downtown/Chinatown Honolulu through culture and the arts.
Parking for DAC is located at nearby municipal parking lots (onsite at Chinatown Gateway Plaza, parking entrance off Bethel Street) or at Mark's Garage (entrance at 22 S. Pauahi St.). DAC is easily accessible by public transit as well; get directions, routes and timetables at www.thebus.org.
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Current Courtyard Gallery Exhibition
Kintsugi Joy: New Paintings by Lauren Okano
November 18 - December 20, 2025
First Friday Artist's Reception‍: Friday, December 5 from 5:30 - 8 p.m.

DAC Art & Gifts Shop is proud to feature new paintings by renowned local artist Lauren Okano in “Kintsugi Joy”
“In this series, the act of painting becomes its own repair - a conversation between fracture and grace” says Okano. “Inspired by the Japanese art of kintsugi, where broken vessels are restored with gold, these works honor the beauty of what endures. Each brushstroke carries both the mark of what was lost and the shimmer of what has been found. Joy, in the end, is the seam that holds it all together - quiet, resilient, and luminous. Through paint, gesture and rhythm, I return to wholeness again and again.”

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Honolulu Kupuna Shed Holiday Sale
Friday through Sunday, December 5-7 and December 12-14, 2025
Members of the nonprofit Honolulu Kupuna Shed will have beautiful woodwork and handmade crafts for sale in the DAC Courtyard Gallery this holiday season on two weekends. Hours on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, December 5-7 and 12-14 will be 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Find bowls, cutting boards, Christmas trees, jewelry, toys, and more—all made by our local kūpuna from sustainably sourced local woods like koa, mango, and lychee.



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Current Classroom Exhibition
The 2025 DAC Instructor Show
On View November 7 - December 20, 2025
Downtown Art Center is proud to present a showcase of our amazing arts instructors! This exhibition is open to current DAC Art/Workshop instructors who teach our casual or fine arts classes and workshops.




Current Studio 1C Exhibition
 WAG/AHA Holiday Art Fair
On View December 2-20, 2025
First Friday Reception on Friday, December 5, from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
The Windward Artists Guild and the Association of Hawaii Artists (AHA) invite you to discover their annual Holiday Art Fair! Find unique, locally made original art, ornaments, prints, gicleé, and more, and solve your gifting dilemmas all in one place!
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About the Downtown Art Center (DAC):
Located in the Chinatown Gateway Plaza building at 1041 Nuʻuanu Ave., Second Floor, the nonprofit Downtown Art Center is an evolving gallery and workshop space for Oʻahu's arts scene. DAC strives to become a thriving center for the arts by providing display space for local artists and art organizations, workshop classrooms, performances, and more. Support DAC and help it grow at donorbox.org/downtownartcenter!

Parking for DAC is located at nearby municipal parking lots (onsite at Chinatown Gateway Plaza, parking entrance off Bethel Street) or at Mark's Garage (entrance at 22 S. Pauahi St.). DAC is easily accessible by public transit as well; get directions, routes and timetables at www.thebus.org.


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