With a creative voice rooted
in her blue-collar and Jewish heritage, Rachel Lyra Lahela Hospodar is a lifelong artist with an iconoclast streak and mastery in multiple mediums. Born in Pittsburgh and then living for a time in San Francisco, her distinctive style of landscape collage paintings sold on Haight Street to customers from all over the world. She was first invited to Moku o Keawe in 2002. Rachel now lives on Kaua’i and is continually working to create a representation of place as unique as Hawai’i.
Rachel Hospodar’s work will be featured in the Niaulani’s Outdoor Sculpture Garden, “Worth of Water.” Volcano Art Center hopes to honor the life-giving waters of the Hawaiian rainforest with this diverse collection of outdoor sculptures.
Visit the Niaulani sculpture garden in person to see Rachel’s work.