Join us for the opening of the ‘Ai Pōhaku, Stone Eaters exhibition at the East-West Center Gallery.

‘Ai Pōhaku, Stone Eaters affirms long-standing acts of creative resistance and persistence. Emerging collaboratively, this multi-site exhibition is guided by ongoing conversations with the curators' family, friends, mentors, and colleagues—all of whom have contributed to a larger movement toward self-determination within the arts of Hawai‘i. ‘Ai Pōhaku, Stone Eaters gathers new commissions, works-in-progress, and existing artworks by an inter generational group of poets, painters, carvers, weavers, filmmakers, photographers, and musicians to help tell a story of Kanaka ‘Ōiwi contemporary art that began during the archipelago-wide cultural reawakening of the 1970s and continues to unfold.

This exhibition is one of six interrelated college and university exhibitions on O‘ahu, including The Art Gallery and Commons Gallery, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; Koa Gallery, Kapi‘olani Community College; Gallery ‘Iolani, Windward Community College; and Hō‘ikeākea Gallery, Leeward Community College.

For additional programming at other venues in conjunction with this exhibition project, please visit: http://www.puuhonua-society.org/aipohaku