Aloha mai kākou,
Our Hawaiʻi museums and cultural institution professionals have in the last two years arduously navigated through a changing world and are now diligently immersed in the implementation of creatively tailored programmatic solutions that reconnect with the community and rebuild visitor confidence through regulated virtual, hybrid, and in-person events.
Hawaiʻi Museums Association (HMA) is excited to be joining together museum professionals from across our islands for a progressive conference unlike any other we’ve organized in the past. Power Up: Museum Momentum in 2022 wishes to address the resurgence of our museums after a precarious and conflicted two years. Our aim this year is to host a series of island hopping events on 5 of our islands, addressing 6 concerns facing our Hawaii museum staff and institutions today. These themes are based on your conference survey responses provided in 2021. We will also present a window into our collective institutions as we join them and learn about their current programs and financial and organizational realities.
HMA invites you to the launch of this progressive conference program beginning in Maui on April 3. Board Director and Gallery Director of Maui Arts and Cultural Center (MACC), Neida Bangerter, has organized a day of events in alignment with the opening of O Kalani, an exhibition featuring the work of Kanaka Maoli artists Sean K.L. Brown and Imaikalani Kalahele. These two prominent artists have been active since the latter part of the 20th century, during a resurgence of Hawaiian culture, and a pivotal moment in the history of Hawai‘i. Drawing inspiration from history, legends, and current events, their work has helped define contemporary art of Hawai‘i. O Kalani references the Hawaiian view of a relationship with the divine, which can be translated as “from the heavens” and also acknowledges the names of both artists.
Vision and Design: Sunday, April 3, 2:00 – 4:00 pm- Artists Sean K.L. Brown and Imaikalani Kalahele will join curator E. Tory Laitila , Honolulu Museum of Art for a discussion about the artists’ work and how effective exhibit design communicates to the viewer.
Museums Mixer: 4:00-6:00 pm Hawaii Museums Association will be hosting this event for Maui museums and organizations to catch up and share news about their organizations.
For more information and your RSVP contact: galleryassistant@mauiarts.org
Please continue to visit this website for ongoing updates to our programming and we look forward to meeting with you in Maui on April 3!
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Why aren’t there Hawaiian diacriticals on this site?
Written Hawaiian uses two diacritical markings as pronunciation guides:
Web browsers sometimes have difficulty reproducing these markings without the use of graphics, special fonts, or special coding. Even correctly authored Web pages that use Unicode coding may be transmitted through a server that displays the symbols incorrectly or the browser may use a replacement font that displays these incorrectly.
Since most browsers can and do display the ASCII grave symbol (‘) as coded, this site uses the grave symbol to represent the ‘okina. We do depict the correct ‘okina on all pages in the title graphic because it is embedded in the graphic and not displayed as text.
The kahako/macron is more problematic. Given the problems with displaying this with current technology, some websites resort to displaying these with diaeresis characters instead, as in ä, which will appear in most browsers (but not all) as an “a” with two dots over it. However, this is not a desirable solution because it doesn’t work uniformly in all browser situations. Until Unicode fonts are more universally displayable, the site reluctantly omits the kahako from most text.
For up-to-date information on how to display the Hawaiian language on websites, visit http://www.olelo.hawaii.edu/enehana/unicode.php by the Kualono Hawaiian Language Center of the University of Hawaii. General information on these issues can also be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%80%98Okina and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macron.