One person’s trash is another person’s masterpiece. ADVERTISING One person’s trash is another person’s masterpiece. The Hawaii Museum of Contemporary Art announces the 26th annual Trash Art Show from Oct. 2-29 at the main gallery. Entries for art from recycled
One person’s trash is another person’s masterpiece.
The Hawaii Museum of Contemporary Art announces the 26th annual Trash Art Show from Oct. 2-29 at the main gallery. Entries for art from recycled materials are due Sept. 25-26. Entries must be ready for installation and cannot have been shown in previous exhibits. Each artist can enter up to three works.
A welcome addition to the Trash Art Show is an inaugural Children’s Trash Costume Competition. Students from grades 6-12 are invited to create their own wearable art from recycled materials and model them on the show’s opening night, at 6 p.m. Oct. 2.
In other fall activities:
• The museum continues to feature “Tribal Art of Oceania,” more than 200 pieces of artifacts from such areas as Papua-New Guinea, the Caroline Islands and the Philippines, until Aug. 28. These artifacts are on display with some for sale by the Flemming Family, Cynee Gillette-Wenner, Don Nigro and Debbie Mitchell.
• Sarah Soward is painting a mural of 17 endemic local birds in the Makai Gallery. Her exhibit, “Stellae Errantes: Wandering Stars,” features elephant paintings for the 21st century and also will continue through Aug. 28. Soward’s previous exhibit at HMOCA featured “Rhinotopia,” paintings of rhinoceros. She is an advocate for the Global March for Elephants and Rhinos, an international event Oct. 4, to save these animals from extinction.
• Elfie Wilkins-Nacht presents “Art and Life: a Retrospective” in the main gallery from Sept. 4-23. Known for her luxurious floral paintings, her exhibit will include assemblages, photograms and photography as well as paintings she created from 1980 through 2015. Her work is in London’s Victoria Albert Museum, Paris’ Georges Pompidou Centre, the Los Angeles County Arts Museum and in many private collections. A book of her work has been specially published in time for the opening of her show.
• Also in September, members of the Hawaii Photo Shooters, a digital photography club for beginners and mentors, will display their work in the Makai Gallery. “Big Island: In the Eye of the Beholder” is the theme for photographs by Bryn Berg, Steve Bohlert, Mary Bowman-Dement, Kate Burroughs, Nancy Chaney, Ken Jackson, Susan Miyasaka, Demetra Reynolds, Becky Settlage and Jean Wence.
For more information about HMOCA activities, call 961-5711 or stop by the museum at 141 Kalakaua St. in downtown Hilo.
