Frequent collaborators on exhibitions and art projects, assistant curator Josh Tengan (HB19) and associate curator Drew Broderick (HT22), discuss community-oriented exhibition-making in Honolulu and a history of contemporary art in Hawaiʻi. Their conversation will center on Drew’s work with Kānaka artists and organizers.

Fireweed, having a preference for disturbed soil, tends to appear and multiply after fires or logging. Its root systems can act as a stabilizer, initiating recovery of ecosystems. Is there a similar stabilizer in the human and cultural environment after massive disturbance such as those imposed by the Canadian Government on Indigenous Peoples.

How can the living performative body expand the concept of the Tā-Vā theory? Historically Samoan cultural understandings of the Tā-Vā have been grounded in relational and social space binding people and things together

Chenta Laury and Matt Browning gave a free workshop on wet felting at HBF's HQ. Participants learned how to transform wool into colorful, felt geodes that will eventually become part of Laury's new commission for Honolulu Biennial 2019

Natalie Robertson (Ngāti Porou, Clann Dhònnchaidh) is a photographic and moving image artist and Senior Lecturer at AUT University, Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland). Much of Robertson’s practice is based in Te Tai Rawhiti, her East Coast Ngati Porou homelands.

Honolulu Biennial Foundation (HBF) announces the launch of Visions of the Future, a new initiative of programming presented by Honolulu Biennial Foundation, which debuted with a collaborative photography and multimedia exhibit,Flooded, featuring photography by Heami Lee, art direction by Allie Wist, food styling by C.C. Buckley and prop styling by Rebecca Bartoshesky and is curated by Isabella Ellaheh Hughes.

Our new, neighbor island programming initiative, Island Hopping, brings select artworks from Honolulu Biennial 2017 (HB17) to the neighbor islands in the fall of 2019.

Impact Hub Honolulu is seeking local artists to create in our 14,000 sf coworking space in Kaka’ako. The space is covered in blank canvases and they need your creative energy to inspire possibilities. Everything from walls to floors to ceilings is awaiting your talent.