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Posted on 08.12.18 1:48AM under Uncategorized

Kakaako used to the the light industrial/art-bohemian area between Ala Moana and Ward Centre and Ward Warehouse. Now it’s a super high-end residential, shopping, and restaurant area. Pow Wow street/wall art is still a block or so away, but we’re seeing the insidious growth of development cancer. Long live the Vulture Capitalists!

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Staying at a modest Air BNB in Manoa, our old haunt…

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And taking a trip down memory lane at the Hawaii State Art Museum. So many artists from our time in Honolulu were showing. I worked there in the late 70s while Alfred Preis was the director.

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Yvonne Cheng

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Fred Roster, one of my sculpture professors recently passed…

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The exposed pipes at the museum.

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Cade Roster, son of Fred and Laila. We showed Cade’s work in Tokyo in the late 90s.

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Pat Catlett and John Wisnowsky were lecturer and Art Dept Chairman back in the mid-to-late-70s.

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Paul Kodama

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Claude Horan’s work from the 1990s. Jay Jensen asked Horan for a public wheel throwing demonstration at what was then the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Yukio Ozaki assisted by getting all the equipment and clay ready and helping Horan at the demo. Horan made several of these figures and took them home to fire. These two were purchased by the SFCA at his Claude Horan’s Retrospective.

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Lee Chesney

MarciaMorse
Marcia Morse, art critic for the Honolulu Advertiser and fiber artist.

TimothyOjiles
Timothy Ojiles. Sat my one-man show, “The Human Factor,” at the Academy of Art in the early 90s.

HowardFarrant
Howard Farrant, denizen of the painting dept and 404 Piikoi when it was artists studios. Now it’s Sam’s Club.

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Joey Chiarello. A bit after my time…

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Esther Shimazu, Sayoko Kay Mura (Davidson), Vicky Chock. We have piece from all three. Kay recently passed July 4.

GayeChan

Gaye Chan. We were in the same foundation design class with Kenneth Kingrey. She is now the Art Dept Chair.

MaryMitsuda

Mary Mitsuda. Mary and Jesse were kind enough to invite me to live with them when I had to move from my house in Manoa.

RickMills

Rick Mills. Fellow glass student in the early 80s, he’s now the glass instructor at U.H.

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Fred Roster

HanaeMills

Hanae Mills. Rick’s wife and fellow student at U.H. together. Great times…

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John Morita. A late nighter in the print lab back in the late 70s.

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Jeff Dunn.

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Tom Haar

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Brian Isobe

RonKowalke

Ron Kowalke. This is a piece from my favorite Kowalke period.

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Ka-ning Fong. Fellow grad student. He kindly took photos of Keith Hernandez as he busted open my piece, “In Case of Emergency.” There was a tab of acid under the glass dome that he was supposed to ingest and record his aesthetic experience. He didn’t imbibe…

LauraRuby_lite

Laura Ruby. See this story here.

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