Hawaii Artist Collaboration

Participating Artists

2024 Special Guest Artist/Teacher Participants

This year, Hawaii Artist Collaboration awarded two grants for the purpose of training teachers to use collaborative strategies in their curricula and classrooms. Grants were awarded to Angaea Cuna and Abbie Rabinowitz, both Fine Arts teachers, who will participate in the 2024 Hawaii Artist Collaboration event. Angaea, who is from Ocean View, HI, specializes in fiber art and book-binding. Abbie is a painter who resides in Pahoa, HI.

Outcomes for the ‘Teach the Teacher’ initiative are to put more tools into the hands of teachers via our projects and develop a curriculum that engages students to collaborate together on projects larger than one person can accomplish.

Angaea is a multi-media artist and Filipino immigrant focusing on fiber arts, bookbinding, and immersive installation. With a bio-centric process and the use of natural materials, Angaea resurfaces her ancestry’s connection to nature, producing work layered with personal narrative and historical research.

Angaea Cuna
Bookbinding, Fiber

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

2024 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

Benoît Averly lives and works in Burgundy, France. There, he creates, in a refined spirit, art pieces in wood; with subtle contrasts, playing with light, lines and textures. Inspired by nature and architecture.

Benoit Averly
Wood Sculptor

Danielle Burnside lives on Hawai’i Island and creates ocean inspired art in multiple mediums including painting and copper leaf.

Danielle Burnside
Mixed Media, Painting

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

Mike’s current work relies on his metalsmithing skills and his love of rocks and the out-of-doors. His kinetic sculptures consist of moving metal components mounted on stone bases. Mike primarily works with hammered brass and copper disks mounted inside metal rings.

Mike Free
Sculpture

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

Lyonel is a New Zealand Māori master carver and sculptor. He learned under master carver Hōne Taiapa at the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute in Rotorua. Lyonel has exhibited both internationally and nationally. His work is held in the collections of The British Museum and The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Lyonel Grant
Maori Sculpture

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
Kauhane "Ben" Heloca
Fiber and Woodworking
Kamaki "Tommy" Hickox
Hawaiian Arts
Evan Jenkins
Glass Artists

Miranda enjoys working in a wide variety of media from paint to steel, but a foundation in drawing and a love of colour are central to her work. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and skills through teaching as she believes creativity at all levels helps to empower us as individuals.

Miranda Jones
Painting, Jewelry, Metal Fabrication

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

Mary Jo Lake is a mixed media and glass artist. She is a co-founder of Collab and the heart of the Lake Ohana. Mary Jo resides in Holualoa Hawaii.

Mary Jo Lake
Mixed Media and Glass Artist
Jonah Lake
Woodworker, Assemblage

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

David is a master craftsman of fine furniture, turner, and sculptor. His patina finish combines painting, gilding (metal leafing), chemical patinas, and lacquering techniques, resulting in complex layers that look ancient, metallic, or even stone like.

David Marks
Wood, Metal Leaf, Patina

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

Megan is a metalworker focusing on forged and fabricated pieces. She is the Studio Supervisor at Medwedeff Forge and Design.

Megan Robin-Abbott
Metalsmith

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

Art is a vessel that allows us to transport our past into the now to carry us forward into the morrow. It is the artist’s duty to preserve this history for future generations and this is why Te Rautini chose to pursue art as a fulltime pursuit.

Te Rautini Sheridan
Wood, Glass, Clay, Print

Jo is a full time Māori artist whose work has been featured in Aotearoa and overseas. She began her creative journey at Waiariki Polytechnic, where she learned the art of harakeke paper making. She uses native plants, selected to ensure a sustainable creative practice.

Harete Tito
Paper, Plant Dyes, Earth Pigments, Painting, Bookbinding

Kristin is a hapa metalsmith, educator and arts administrator. Her work centers around one-of-a-kind wearable art and holloware with an aesthetic that has been described as a “marriage between her Japanese heritage and influences from her early explorations in architecture and the Modernist design movement.

Kristin Shiga
Jewelry

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

Lorie Taylor is a fine artist living on the Big Island of Hawaii. She creates botanical sculptures, acrylic collage, and paintings. She is inspired by the culture, flowers and environment of Hawaii.

Lorie Taylor
Mixed Media, Collage, Painting, Clay

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.

Jimmy Wray
Woodworker

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