Gallery sights in Hawai'i (The Big Island)
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Isaacs Art Center
The stunning collection of significant and historic Hawai'ian paintings and artifacts at this art center makes it much more a museum than a traditional gallery - one of the best outside of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. It's housed in a 1915 plantation schoolhouse (now on the historic register), whose single row of six spacious classrooms makes an ideal exhibition space.
Highlights include Jules Tavernier's Kilauea by Moonlight, Madge Tennent's Lei Queen Fantasia, and especially Herb Kawainui Kane's The Arrival of Captain Cook at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779. Many other important artists (not all of them Hawai'ian) are represented. Sales benefit the attached Hawai'i Prep…
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East Hawai'i Cultural Center
Hilo is becoming a bona fide art town, and for many years the heart of Hilo's art scene has been the East Hawai'i Cultural Center, which is dedicated to promoting local artists. Diverse exhibits showcase everyone from established professionals to competent amateurs, all engaged in celebrating and digesting the Hawaiian experience. They also offer a range of workshops and classes (including painting, drawing, 'ukulele and hula).
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Donkey Mill Art Center
Rustic and unpretentious, the Holualoa Foundation for Arts & Culture's Donkey Mill Art Center displays impressive collections and offers workshops taught by recognized artists in a variety of mediums. The center's building, built in 1953, was once a coffee mill with a donkey painted on its roof, hence the name. It's 3 miles south of the village center.
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Volcano Garden Arts
You see artist Ira Ono's voluptuous masks everywhere. His gallery, Volcano Garden Arts - packed with other artists and including a small 'café' - is central to the recent upswing in the Volcano art scene.
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2400° Fahrenheit
Come early to glass-blowing studio 2400° Fahrenheit and watch artists Michael and Misato Mortara create their mind-boggling glass bowls and vases. A tiny gallery displays finished pieces.
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