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Presentation: How to Carve a Palauan Storyboard Presentation: How to Carve a Palauan Storyboard
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Smiling carver Dawrwin "Ling" Inabo, wearing a blue t-shirt and glasses, stands next to a large Palauan storyboard - a long wooden plank finely carved with images from a Palauan legend. Green foliage from trees shines brightly through the window in the background.
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Join us for the presentation How to Carve a Palauan Storyboard by artist-in-residence Darwin "Ling" Inabo, with introduction by Jerome Feldman, Emeritus Professor of Art History at Hawai'i Pacific University. Mr. Inabo will also be presenting a newly-completed storyboard, carved during his residency, to the East-West Center. The presentation is free to the public, and seating is first-come, first-served.  

Darwin "Ling" Inabo will be holding public carving observation hours 2:00-4:00 pm daily, Monday-Friday, Oct. 30-Nov. 3, 2023. Visitor parking is managed by UH Mānoa, available for a fee.

The presentation is part of the the exhibition Storyboards of Palau: Artistry, Influence, Impact, on view in the EWC Gallery through January 7, 2024. In this exhibition, the rich artistic heritage of Palau is explored through storyboards—planks of wood incised and carved in low relief—that tell a traditional story in pictographic and representational form. The storyboard is an art form embedded in the culture and history of Palau, and reflects the many changes the islands have undergone. Palauan master carvers, past and present, reveal the ingenuity and evolution of the storyboard spanning over 100 years.

The exhibition features storyboards from the Belau National Museum, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art Lending Collection, and many private collections.

Join us for the presentation How to Carve a Palauan Storyboard by artist-in-residence Darwin "Ling" Inabo, with introduction by Jerome Feldman, Emeritus Professor of Art History at Hawai'i Pacific University. Mr. Inabo will also be presenting a newly-completed storyboard, carved during his residency, to the East-West Center. The presentation is free to the public, and seating is first-come, first-served.  

Darwin "Ling" Inabo will be holding public carving observation hours 2:00-4:00 pm daily, Monday-Friday, Oct. 30-Nov. 3, 2023. Visitor parking is managed by UH Mānoa, available for a fee.

The presentation is part of the the exhibition Storyboards of Palau: Artistry, Influence, Impact, on view in the EWC Gallery through January 7, 2024. In this exhibition, the rich artistic heritage of Palau is explored through storyboards—planks of wood incised and carved in low relief—that tell a traditional story in pictographic and representational form. The storyboard is an art form embedded in the culture and history of Palau, and reflects the many changes the islands have undergone. Palauan master carvers, past and present, reveal the ingenuity and evolution of the storyboard spanning over 100 years.

The exhibition features storyboards from the Belau National Museum, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art Lending Collection, and many private collections.