Volcano Art Center strives to effectively develop and promote our local established and emerging artists. Through our classes and workshops, we provide a host of professional, creative and artistic development opportunities for artists to both share and continue exploring and honing their talent and skills. We also offer opportunities for artists of all mediums to teach, perform, demonstrate, and share themselves and their creative souls with others.

 

Volcano Art Center provides ongoing opportunities for visual artists in all media to sell their work on consignment in the Volcano Art Center Gallery. VAC Gallery, located within the former Volcano House Hotel built in 1877, is open year-round, seven days a week (except Christmas Day). It is operated under a Cooperative Agreement with the National Park Service, as an enhancement to the interpretive programs of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park (HVNP). All artists showing work in our gallery are required to be current members. For more information on our consigning your art work with us, click here.

Volcano Art Center coordinates and markets a fine and functional arts market featuring original works of photography, painting, jewelry, and sculpture available for sale directly from local artists and craftsmen. Held biannually at our Niaulani Campus in Volcano Village, this market is becoming more and more popular. Our third Art Market is scheduled for September 2011. If you are an artist who would like to get involved in our Art Market, we offer inexpensive booth spaces available at  for the entire weekend. Artists must be Hawai`i Island residents. Click here for vendor info.

Volcano Art Center provides ongoing teaching and sharing opportunities for visual and performing artists , writers, scientists, ecologists and rain forest conservationists, and cultural practitioners. If you would like to teach a class or workshop, participate with other instructors in a retreat offering, or provide a talk story or artist talk, contact Anne or Marsha at (808) 967-8222. For more information, you can download our prospective instructor guide .  

If you are a performer, dancer or musician and want to book a performance at our facility or at KMC Theater, contact Dave Wallerstein at (808) 967-8222 for more information. Volcano Art Center welcomes all forms of performance, including stand-up and spoken word performers, modern, cultural and traditional dance, and all genres of music.  

in the fall of 2010, Volcano Art Center opened the doors to Hale Ho`omana, our education facility with multipurpose room and two classrooms. If you are an artists wanting to utilize one of our classrooms as studio space, please contact Anne at (808) 967-8222 about this exciting win-win opportunity to work amidst our beautiful Niaulani Rain Forest.

If you are a kumu hula or hula dancer and would like to share your dance and chant at the pa hula in reverance to Pele at her home at Kilauea, contact Marsha Hee at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or (808) 967-8222 about our hula kahiko performance and informance programs.