For our final week at the Spalding House, the Academy of the Pacific students and I touched up and secured...
Contemporary art
Garden of Reflection Week 5+
The students from Academy of the Pacific take a break after adding some finishing touches to our colored mirror and...
Garden of Reflection Week 3+
Week 3 of our Garden of Reflection installation has produced some unexpected light effects and placement of reflective objects. Visitors...
Garden of Reflection: Week 1+
It was a great first weekend here at Spalding House! Here I am installing the colored mirrors, which museum visitors...
An art project E.O. Wilson would love+
Andrea Jonna Charuk completed her second weekend as Orvis Artist in Residence at Spalding House on Sunday. Her project Take...
Tattoo legend Mike Ledger in our photo studio today+
Curators have selected 10 contemporary artists to highlight in our upcoming exhibition Tattoo Honolulu. One of them is the highly...
Eggs hatched, ready for takeoff!+
Last month we reported that a shama thrush had laid eggs in Orvis artist in residence Eva Enriquez’s project—which just...
The rise of the guava saplings+
Last week visiting artist Patrick Dougherty and his crew—Hawai‘i artist Leland Miyano, museum staff, volunteers—harvested a forest’s worth of invasive...
Hawai‘i Art Now members-only opening tonight+
The first concrete sign of Hawai‘i Art Now was Eli Baxter installing her work Ascension on the staircase leading to...
Visitors become impromptu art assistants on vacay+
The stripping of the strawberry guava saplings started on our front lawn today. Sherwood and Gerry Gwan, pictured here, are...