Flying Hawaiian Airlines this month? Pick up your copy of Hana Hou-The Magazine of Hawaiian Airlines. Liza Simon interviews kumu hula on the oli, Hawaiian chant. Kumu Hula Vicky Holt Takamine, Manu Boyd, Snowbird Bento, Kalena Silva and Kekuhi Kanahele are featured in the article along with reknowned mea oli (chanter) Edith Mckinzie.
Not Flying? View the article online at http://www.hanahou.com/pages/magazine.asp?Action=DrawArticle&ArticleID=1044&MagazineID=66
Theresa Secord & Ron Martinez Looking Elk
Native Hawaiian artists participated in the First Peoples Fund’s Professional Development Workshop at PA’I Arts & Culture Center this past weekend. FPF trainers Theresa Secord (Penobscot basket weaver) and Ron Martinez Looking Elk (Taos Pueblo, pottery) shared personal experiences and best practices of their journey towards the development of their art as a profession. Ron and Theresa were joined by Keone Nunes who shared valuable tips on how to identify, define and clarify the artists objectives and goals to help our artists focus and strategically plan for achieving their goal of becoming a successful artist who can sustain themselves and their families by promoting and marketing their art.
Blaine Fergestrom, popped in on Saturday afternoon to show our artists how easy it is to set up and update their own websites. Let’s follow www.maileandrade.com and see how she’s doing on her website…yesterday, it was just a shell on godaddy.com. Let’s see how long it takes for her to get up and running!
The First Peoples Fund Workshop is made possible through generous funding from the Ford Foundation, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, Artspace, Mayor’s Office of Culture and Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town.
Shannon Weaver, painter
Shannon Weaver presents to Artists In Business workshop.
