Richard Bell's Embassy • Panel Discussion on the Role Native Hawaiian Women Play in Not-for-Profit Organizations
Installation view: Richard Bell, Embassy, 2013–, canvas tent with annex, aluminum frame, rope, synthetic polymer paint on board, digital video, color, sound; archive. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Museum of Contemporary Art and Tate, with support from the Qantas Foundation in 2015, purchased 2017. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane. © Richard Bell.
Vicky Holt Takamine, Maile Meyer, and Puni Jackson
Richard Bell’s Embassy
SAT • MAY 7 • 2pm
Hawai‘i State Art Museum
250 South Hotel St, Honolulu
Front Lawn
HT22 artist Richard Bell’s Embassy reclaims public spaces to challenge the status, treatment, and rights of Indigenous peoples and image alternate futures by creating a platform for conversations with invited guest speakers. Embassy has roved the planet over the past eight years, popping up in numerous galleries, museums, and periodic exhibitions across Melbourne (2013), Perth (2014), Cairns (2016), Brisbane (2016), and Sydney (2016; 2021); Moscow (2013); Venice (2015, 2019); Jakarta (2015); New York (2015; 2017); Jerusalem (2016); Amsterdam and Arnhem (2016).
In this iteration of the project, a talk-story session will center on the vital roles that Native Hawaiian women, and the not-for-profit organizations they lead, play in supporting, funding, and amplifying Hawaiʻi-based grassroots efforts across arts and cultures, as well as social and environmental justice movements. Guest speakers are Maile Meyer (Executive Director, Pu‘uhonua Society), Vicky Holt Takamine (Executive Director, PA‘I Foundation), and Puni Jackson (Program Director, Ho‘oulu ‘Āina, Kōkua Kalihi Valley).
Free. All are welcome.
This panel discussion is presented by Hawai‘i Contemporary and Hawai‘i State Art Museum, and organized in collaboration with Pu‘uhonua Society.
