Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 9, Number 12, 1 December 1992 — Hawaiian art featured in San Francisco exhibit [ARTICLE]

Hawaiian art featured in San Francisco exhibit

"Akua, Ali'i a me Kahuna," (Gods, Chiefs and Holy Men) is an exhibition of contemporary and traditional native Hawaiian art whieh will be featured Jan. 8 - March 1, 1993 at the American Indian Contemporary Arts museum in San Francisco. It features works by the Hale Naua III Society of Hawaiian Arts. whieh deal with the creation of the imagery of ancestral gods, sacred paraphernalia, altars and ritual objects. The exhibition was selected by the museum to begin its observance of the Year of Indigenous People, and to mark the 100th anniversary of the fall of the Hawaiian kingdom. According to Hale Naua exhibit coordinator Lueia Tarallo-Jensen, this exhibit is the first of its kind to go from Hawai'i to the mainland, and it shows the growing appreciation on the mainland of native Hawaiian arts with its themes of native religion and personal mythology.

Rocky Ka'iouliokaliihikolo'Ehu Jensen, director of Hale Naua III, called "Akua, Ali'i A Me Kahuna" an artistic commemorative honoring those whose spirits anguished because of the overthrow of the native Hawaiian kingdom and the consequent abdication of Queen Lili'uokalani. Native Hawaiian artists participating in the exhibit include: Rocky Jensen, Leialoha Iversen, Maiki, Telford Cazimero, Ke'alaonaonapuahinano Campton, Kauka De Silva, Hinano K. Campton, Joseph Momoa, Natalie Jensen, Ethelreda Kahalewai, Moana Espinda, Richard Colbum, Alamalene Gray, Eric Flores, Moira Flores and Lalepa AhSam.