Special Collaboration: Coe Center x IAIA
Artists, educators, and community members gather at the center of ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone Eaters, within the Art Gallery of the Department of Art and Art History, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Friday, February 24th
9-11 AM HST
12-2PM MST
Please join the Coe Center and the MFA in Studio Arts Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts for a discussion of ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone Eaters, a radical exhibition that recently opened at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa addressing the exclusion of Kānaka worldviews from academia in general, and specifically within the university’s Department of Art and Art History, as well as an overall lack of institutional support for Kānaka art across the Islands.
- Curators
- Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick (Kanaka ʻŌiwi)
- Noelle M. K. Y. Kahanu (Kanaka ʻŌiwi)
- Josh Tengan (Kanaka ʻŌiwi)
- Representative Artists
- Kaili Chun (Kānaka Maoli)
- Kapulani Landgraf (Kānaka Maoli)
- Moderated by Heidi K. Brandow (Diné and Kānaka Maoli), MFASA Faculty at IAIA and Guest Curator & Artist Liaison at the Coe Center.
