Aaron has operated a professional wood turning studio in Hawaiʻi since 2000. He produces his HammerCraft line of lathe-turned bowls, drums, wine corks, wooden jewelry and gift items. He studied under master turner Jerry Kermode.
Abbie Rabinowitz paints with an expressive, painterly style rooted in her deep love of nature. Her landscapes are created directly from observation, capturing the living spirit of place, while her abstract works emerge as a more personal search—translating the shifting beauty and fragility of the natural world into vibrant color, playful expression, and emotional resonance.
Adam has a life long curiosity and dedication to jewelry making. He received his Bachelors of Fine Arts from Maine College of Art and then apprenticed with several renowned metal artists. He also teaches wedding ring workshops and founded Scintillant Studio, a community space dedicated to teaching and supporting all levels of jewelry artists and metal craftspeople.
Alex is a fine artist and illustrator living on the Kona coast of the Big Island. Hawaii’s stunning landscapes and undersea life spark the passion for the islands that is readily apparent in his work. He features fine detail pen and ink work in his art, a style he calls "The Art of Detail"
Portland, OR
Amy is a stone cutter and silversmith living on the Big Island of Hawaii. She has been making jewelry for over fifteen years, enjoying the full process from mining to fabrication and marketing. Her jewelry is hand made and she cuts and fits many of the stones she uses.
April Ottey is a jewelry artist whose work explores the transformative power of nature. She focuses on the intricate details of the natural world—the architecture, texture, and shape of natural artifacts—in order to draw attention to the beauty surrounding us that we too often overlook.
Over the past thirty-plus years, Chris’ work has been influenced by numerous subjects, from Japanese aesthetics to Czech Cubism to African and Indian cultures. Two threads run through all his work: a reverence for the natural world and the industrial environment he grew up in
Born in Argentina, Cris Lindborg's life journey has been intricately woven with the threads of art leading her to diverse corners of the world. From mastering the craft of batik in Israel to harnessing the vividness of watercolors in Panama and venturing into the realm of digital design in the Marshall Islands, her artistic journey has been a kaleidoscope of creativity. In Kona, she delved into architectural ceramics and abstract painting, adding even more dimensions to her artistic repertoire.
Eriko Kobayashi (b.Tokyo, Japan) fell in love with the color and texture of glass in 2014. This fascination led her to study at Toyama City Institute of Glass Art in Japan (2016), and later pursue her MFA in Glass at Southern Illinois University (2022). Kobayashi recently relocated to Seattle to continue her career in glass.
Ethan is a Blacksmith and Sculptor in Hawaii. He enjoys working with the hammer and chisel to leave his mark on the metal. He gains inspiration from nature and enjoys the challenge of trying to bring it back into the metal in some form.
Glass itself has an inherent beauty, and through the use of color and form I am creating one of a kind pieces that are a reflection of beauty in the world. Ideas spring from something as intangible as a dream; the finished piece becomes a reflection of my thoughts and emotions within the object.
Greg is a modern Renaissance man: Farmer, Physicist, Engineer. His skills range from design engineering, prototyping, and product design to hydroponic and aquaponic crop production, and cultivating traditional Hawaiian plants for cultural practitioners. His artistic endeavors include making tools for Kapa production and traditional printing and specialty woodworking.
Ian is a local metalworker and fabricator and he heads up the Collab metals department. He is also a resource artist / problem solver for every STEAM group in West Hawaii. He is usually wearing a welding mask and shining brightly.
John has been creating sculpture, site-specific architectural ironwork, and furniture for over thirty years as an independent studio artist. His work is represented in private, corporate, and public collections throughout the US.
John is a visionary wood lathe artist. He is continually inspired by the beauty of our natural world here on Big Island and incorporates that imagery into his work. His love of working with wood, combined with 40 years as a professional artist has brought him to his current passion of placing the “Mydock Touch” on the wooden vessels he turns.
John is a sculptor, focusing on direct carving of wood and stone. He's influenced by art that is a collaboration with natural objects. "The notion that I might be leaving some of my energy or influence inside a form that already carries its own history inspires my process."
Holualoa, HI
As an artist, as a plantsman, my work of many years has been about exploring fibers I can grow, honoring traditions, and developing a contemporary connection inside these interwoven passions. Lately, I have been inspired to bring the glowing centers of my pieces into poetry.
Currently making botanical monotypes from the plants in my tropical garden in Kona Hawaii. My imagery mixes the figure with nature in curious patterns and textures using painting and printmaking techniques together with collage and handmade papers. I enjoy developing fresh ideas from the materials in my life.
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Local and native Hawaiian practitioner, fiber and woodwork.
Local and native Hawaiian fiber and woodworker
Kristing works as a lighting designer at the Kahilu Theatre. She is a multimedia artist focusing on jewelry design and incorporating lighting into sculptural works.
Tohunga whakairo, designer and sculptor, Lyonel Grant is an innovator whose toi is communicated through many mediums including stone, wood, bronze, and glass with each creation having its own distinct character. Lyonel’s unique approaches have advanced traditional artistic practices as well as a general contribution to ngā toi Māori evolution in the 21st Century.
Holualoa, HI
Mats was born in Sweden and attended an art and furniture making school in Stockholm. His world adventures landed him in Hawaii in 1991 where he is a full time woodworker and furniture maker.
My work tells stories from my life, places I've been, people I've met, architecture, our environment. These stories are interwoven into the objects I create. Craft goes beyond the pleasure of our senses and deals not only with aesthetics, but social and ideological lives.
A true craftsperson, Nash creates fanciful, playful miniature goblets and sculptures with beautiful iridescent and translucent glass. Born from sand and fire, the tiny whimsical pieces are an embodiment of the craft of flameworking. He works with Borosilicate Glass and specializes in flameworking.
Noah specializes in custom made, one-of-a-kind wood furniture that brings beauty, functionality, and sustainability to his client's homes. He uses Hawaiʻi grown species that he's often sourced and milled to craft furniture, countertops, and bowls.
The ideas, forms, and images Paul creates are through a lens of being classically trained in the trades, thinking outside the box, and observing nature. He uses material in new ways through a technique-driven process, and attempts to convey a sense of story, balance, beauty, and surprise, in the things he makes.
Peter Underwood is an antique dealer and multimedia artist from the Big Island of Hawaii. He is a founding member of Hawaii Artist Collaboration and serves as the Vice President of the organization.
Kaneohe, HI
Ceramic Artist in Keaau, HI
Stephanie Metz creates alluring yet unsettling sculptures and installations using wool as her medium. She manipulates fiber to create three-dimensional objects that are both seductive and repulsive, muscular and elegant. Hand stitching thick industrial felt and repetitively needle felting wool fibers into solid masses, she creates forms ranging from intimately sized to monumental. Her works embody nuanced, contradictory ideas in approachable yet mysterious materials. Her visceral organic sculptures—physically and conceptually both soft and edgy—reference the body as both subject and object
Tai Lake has a lifetime dedicated to the study of woodworking and design. He builds fine furniture from local hardwoods that he and his sons harvest. Tai is a founding member and President of Hawaii Artist Collaboration.
