
Category: Projects & exhibitions
The Coe Center has a history of creating projects and exhibitions in conjunction with artists, institutions, and collectors around the world.
In addition, each year our Hands-On Student Curators exhibit their work under a common theme. These activities are supported by open access to the Coe Collection.


Affirmation and Resistance: ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone Eaters – Sovereignty and Contemporary Native Hawaiian Art
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 24th9-11 AM HST12-2PM...
Giving Growth
Giving Growth Countdown Day(s) : Hour(s) : Minute(s) : Second(s) “I can personally identify with the loneliness that the COVID epoch has bestowed upon us all. It is my hope that through this project, our outreach and art can begin to help restore and serve as another...
Conversations of Ourselves: An Indigenous survey of James Kivetoruk Moses
James Kivetoruk Moses (Inupiaq), Cape Espenberg Wedding, mixed media on card stock, nd. 13 x 18 in. Private Collection The Coe Center for the Arts presents an intimate selection of works by mid-century artist James Kivetoruk Moses (Inupiaq). The works are a selection...
IMPRINT 2020
Above image is from the 2018 IMPRINT opening at the Coe Center. In the summer of 2018, the Coe partnered with an incredible group of artists and thinkers to create the exhibition IMPRINT. One goal of IMPRINT was to send art out into the community in different...