Participating Artists

2025 Participating Artists

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.

Nash Adams-Pruitt

Torch Glass Artist

Adare (they/them) is a classically trained portrait artist, disability rights activist, and founder of Kīpaipai Art Foundation. Adare's portfolio is recognizable for its vibrancy, use of gold leaf, and focus on cultural diversity.

Adare

Portrait Artist, Activist, Teacher

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.

Adam Clark

Jewelry, Mixed Media

Matthew designs and creates custom and original furniture, works of art, and architectural woodwork. He has more than 30 years of woodworking experience specializing in local and exotic hardwood.

Matthew D'Avella

Photography, Woodworking

Aspen Dewey is an oil painter deeply rooted in the Hawaii Art community. Aspen recently embarked on the stewardship of One Gallery in Hilo, which proudly represents over one hundred local artists. She has been instrumental in bringing new life to the gallery and exploring innovative ways to bring local art to life.

Aspen Dewey

Oil Painter, Mixed Media

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.

Amy Flanders

Jewelry

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.

Mats Fogelvik

Artist, Designer, Woodworker

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.

Ethan Froney

Blacksmith

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.

Greg Garriss

Mixed Media Artist

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"

Alex Gupton

Artist, Illustrator, Sculptor

Aaron has operated a professional wood turning studio in Hawai'i 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.

Aaron Hammer

Woodturning

Evan Jenkins

Glass Artists

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.

Tai Lake

Master 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.

Kristin Lake

Jewelry, Multi Media, Lighting

Noah specializes in custom made, one-of-a-kind wood furniture that brings beauty, functionality, and sustainability to his client's homes. He uses Hawai'i grown species that he's often sourced and milled to craft furniture, countertops, and bowls.

Noah Lake

Wood Furniture

Theresa Lovering-Brown is professor emeritus with decades of experience in Metal Arts and Jewelry. Her art is wide-ranging, integrating and transforming materials and techniques from ancient cultures, creating modern narratives from nature, art, history and current events. She exhibits nationally and internationally.

Theresa Lovering-Brown

Jewelry, Small Metals

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 Medwedeff

Blacksmith, Sculptor

Anita is captivated by glass. In the high heat of the kiln, colors shift and flow, hard surfaces soften and become molten; bubbles burst or are trapped beneath the surface. She is guided by the elements of fire, water, earth, air, and culture as she explores the ancient, the tribal, the abstract.

Anita Merina

Glass

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 Mydock

Lathe, Mixed Media Artist

Victor Pilolla

Mixed Media Artist

Abbie paints pleinair landscapes and abstract paintings based on nature. She is insanely inspired by the Big Island of Hawaii where she's been painting landscapes on for over 25 years. She paints in an expressive, painterly style, allowing the rich colors, exotic foliage, and vibrant hues of the tropics to inform her art.

Abbie Rabinowitz

Painting

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.

Ian Rogers

Metal Fabricator

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.

Paul Schurch

Wood Furniture

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."

John Strohbehn

Sculptor

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.

Peter Underwood

Mixed Media Artist

Jimmy is a woodworker from Key West, Florida. He and his wife Karen have a shop on the docks,
where they have been for 35 years, building carved wooden signs, repairing old
sailboats, milling discarded trees, designing and building art and furniture, and teaching.