Ho’okupu a collection of pastels by Kathy Long
October 2 – November 7, 2021
Volcano Art Center will soon be displaying a new collection of pastel paintings by Hawaiʻi’s Island revered portrait artist Kathy Long. The exhibit titled Hoʻokupu features thirteen pastel paintings, nine of which have 
never been seen before. The exhibition, opening to the public on Saturday, October 2nd will continue through Sunday, November 7th daily from 9am – 5pm at the Volcano Art Center Gallery in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. The exhibit can also be viewed online at www.volcanoartcenter.org
The collection on display for the Hoʻokupu exhibition is a tribute, “my gift to the beauty that is Kīlauea, Mauna Loa and the people who cherish it”, states Kathy. “In the middle of the ocean lies a treasure of unique beauty. Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park runs from the mountains to the sea, an ever changing environment, an evolving tapestry of forest, barren rock desert and restless shores. It was here, in October of 1982, that I first experienced hula kahiko, or ancient hula, down on the floor of the Kīlauea caldera, by the fire pit, Halemaʻumaʻu. The combination of the artistry that I witnessed and the environment of Kīlauea itself left an indelible mark on my spirit and I have painted images of the Hawaiian culture and the park, for 39 years.”
Since 1982, Kathy Long has called the Big Island “home” once again. Daughter of the well-known artist Mary Koski, she lived in Hilo until she was eight. Her family then moved to the U.S. Mainland and later to Europe, where she graduated from one of the oldest schools in Scandinavia, and made her debut at the highly respected Waino Aaltonen Museum in Finland. That exhibit was the first of thirteen one-woman shows in Europe, followed by many more in the U.S. mainland and Hawai`i, including two past shows at the Volcano Art Center.
In 1979, Kathy and her art historian husband Bertil moved to Houston, Texas to open a highly successful fine arts gallery. In 1982 they moved to Waimea on Hawaiʻi Island where Bertil was curator of Richard Smart’s fabulous art collection at Parker Ranch until 2000.Nearly everyone living in Hawai`i has seen at least one of Kathy’s masterfully executed drawings reproduced in countless publications as well as on the 2001 and 2002 Merrie Monarch Festival posters. She works from images she has photographed and then painstakingly and patiently imbues them with her love and respect for her subjects to create sensitive and exquisitely beautiful drawings.
Kathy explains “Volcano is a place of great energy and fuels peoples creativity. The Volcano Art Center has given people a place to showcase their artwork and a place for the world to view them. I have named this show Hoʻokupu (To Pay Tribute). I pay tribute to this beautiful and amazing place, and to the people and the culture who nurture and tend it. May this show be my blessing, my gift.”
Kathy Long will be present at VAC gallery on Sunday, October 3rd and 24th. Those wishing to meet the artist are welcome to VAC gallery for the special opportunity to talk story with the artist from 11am -1pm.
Mandatory mask wearing and social distancing protocol observed within VAC Gallery at this time. For more information, visit www.volcanoartcenter.org or contact VAC Gallery Manager Emily C. Weiss at (808) 967-8222 or gallery@volcanoartcenter.org.
Volcano Art Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization created in 1974 whose mission is to promote, develop and perpetuate the artistic, cultural and environmental heritage of Hawaii through the arts and education.
The Volcano Art Center is Happy to Announce our First Virtual Only Exhibit beginning online October 8th!
Studio Art Quilt Associates is pleased to announce Shifting Tides: Convergence in Cloth at www.volcanoartcenter.org from Friday, October 8th to November 8th.
Created as a group exhibit to shine a light on the issues facing the Pacific Ocean today, Shifting Tides is a collection of work by 45 artists chosen from the seven Pacific-facing regions of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA). An international organization that promotes the quilt as an art form, SAQA has a history of inviting artists to explore topical, sometimes controversial topics. With this latest show, the organization’s west-coast members explore the earth’s largest ecosystem.
From their strikingly different vantage points—from Southern California northward to Western Canada and Alaska, plus Hawaiʻi—artists from a range of backgrounds were asked to express their concerns and feelings about the Pacific. “Merely because we live in this part of the world, we as individuals are part of the Pacific ecosystem. On a daily basis, we may not recognize the changes that are happening, but they are of vital importance to our world,” write Georgia French and Sonja Campbell, co-chairs of the exhibit planning committee. “We were stunned with the variety and emotional intensity of their responses, as well as with the beauty and graphic impact of their work.”
The 45 works range widely in content and technique, drawing on realism, abstract, and non-representational depictions. The pieces on display were chosen from more than 160 submissions for SAQA artists. Curated by renowned textile artist, Ann Johnston, the exhibit offers a variety of styles and contexts about the plight of oceans and the communities they support. “The topic demands a passion we all feel, and the quilts dealt with the subject and the passion in many different ways; all of them hit me as having merit and value,” explains Johnson. “The intention of the exhibit was not only to choose good pieces but also to include a representative range of habitats and issues in reference to our Pacific ecosystem. I also wanted to include a range of design approaches and construction techniques. I think the resulting exhibit is a showcase of art that will enlighten the viewers about quilts and encourage exploration of solutions to one of our most anguishing ecological problems.”
Whether you want to learn more about the issues plaguing the Pacific Ocean, crave a forum that amplifies your concerns, or just want to immerse yourself in images of its beauty, Shifting Tides: Convergence in Cloth promises to deliver. Visit www.volcanoartcenter.org to view these incredible works of art.
Yoga with Emily Catey Weiss
Pre-register in advance for Yoga with Emily on Wednesdays from 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm at Volcano Art Center Niaulani Campus in Volcano Village. Class size is limited to 10 participants due to social distancing. Please bring your own mat as community mats are no longer available for use.
Relax your body and rejuvenate your soul in this gentle and peaceful class. The focus is on stretching and releasing both physical and mental tension. Open to both beginning and intermediate students, classes meet at VAC’s Niaulani Campus in the Varez Hall, unless otherwise noted. For more information please contact emilycatey@hotmail.com
Stained Glass Basics I ( 3 Saturday sessions) * Class Is Full- call 808-967-8222 to be put on a waiting list for the next scheduled class
Whimsical shapes, illustrative scenes, or divine stories, stained glass has re-created the light in our lives for centuries. Stained glass artisans use both glass color and texture to produce light forms and patterns creating mood and character in small and large spaces. Want to know more? Then this three-session stained glass workshop will shed some light on the process of stained glass.
Now you can try your hand at making stained glass art in this workshop for beginners. All of the basic techniques will be covered, from glass cutting, foiling, soldering, and completing with patina and polishing compound. Glass artist Claudia McCall will share her expertise and knowledge, teaching students the skills involved in working safely with stained glass, and creating a beautiful, sturdy piece of art.
“Stained Glass Basics I” will be held at Volcano Art Center on Saturdays: October 30, November 6, and 13, from 9 am – 1 pm. The class fee is $100/$90 for VAC members plus a $20 fee. Attendees are asked to wear long pants, snug-fitting gloves, covered shoes, and safety glasses. Advance registration is required and this workshop will be limited to 6 adults.
You will complete this workshop series with a finished glass panel and the knowledge and experience of the basic skills involved to continue working with stained glass.
Mask required
Introduction to Clay with Wheel Throwing: Tea Cups & Mugs with Erik Wold
Saturday Afternoons 2:00pm – 5:00pm
8 week session beginning Saturday, September 11, 2021, through Saturday, October 30, 2021.
VOLCANO ART CENTER’S SPOOKY TRAIL IS LURING YOU!
Wear your favorite HALLOWEEN costume to enter our Spooky Trail at Volcano Art Center’s Haunted Forest. Join us on October 30th from 4:00 – 7:00 pm. Your adventure begins with a tour of the Halloween Village, then your tour ghoul will lure you into the Haunted Forest.
This exciting, fun experience includes a keiki costume contest and the best decorated or carved pumpkin, which you can bring from home.
Goodie bags will be distributed to each keiki (while supplies last). Drawings for prizes will happen throughout the event. Costume and pumpkin judging will be from 5:30 to 6:00 p.m.
The cost is $4.00 per person, at least one adult per family, with a maximum of 6 in a group. Please bring your own flashlight.
Due to COVID restrictions, a limited number of participants will be allowed on the trial at a time. Masks and sign-in will be required. Thank you for your cooperation and help in supporting the Volcano Art Center.
Mandala Bead Embroidery with Rona Smith
Mandala is the Sanskrit word for circle. This universal symbol is used in many indigenous cultures to represent wholeness, protection, healing, and insight. Mandalas are used as a tool in meditation to enhance focus and intention.
In this class, you will use these concepts along with semi-precious stone, metal, bone, and glass beads to create a bead embroidery mandala that is both beautiful and personally meaningful. The class will cover tools, design, technique, stitches, and material, sourcing making it suitable for beginners and intermediate students.
Join Rona Smith on Saturday, November 6, 2021, from 10am – 4pm at Volcano Art Center, Niaulani Campus in Volcano Village. All tools and supplies are included in the supply fee. The cost for the workshop is $60/$55 VAC members, plus a $30 supply fee. Please bring a lunch.
Rona began her journey in bead embroidery in 1995, after years of searching for a way to bring to life the mandalas she envisioned during her meditations. Her art can be found in private collections both domestic and internationally. She is currently represented by Gallery of Great Things in Waimea and Maui Hands in Makawao. Rona lives in the forest of Volcano gathering inspiration from the beauty of nature and the power of myth and story.
Make Your Own Mosaic with Michael Reeder
In this class you will create usable art under the guidance of expert mosaic artist, Michael Reeder. You’ll learn the basics of mosaic art using a prepared 9″ x 9″ wood template on which you develop your own design. Make a trivet or a wall hanging for yourself or a heartfelt holiday gift. All supplies are provided but, you are welcome to bring your own special pieces.
Make Your Own Mosaic Workshop is a 3 session workshop, held on Sundays November 7, 14, and 21, 2021, from 10am – 12pm at Volcano Art Center Ni‘aulani Campus in Volcano Village. Class fee is $45/$40 VAC members plus a $25 materials fee.
Beginning Mosaic Classes for Keiki’s with Dina Kageler
Come join artist Dina Kageler for a fun after school mosaic art class. Keiki ages 6-12 are invited to create a special personal piece or a wonderful holiday gift for the family. The basics of mosaic art will be taught using a prepared 9”x 9” wood template with pre-made designs to choose from. 
Beginning Mosaic Classes for Keiki’s is a 3 session workshop, held on Mondays, November 8, 15, and 22, 2021, from 3pm – 5pm at Volcano Art Center Ni‘aulani Campus in Volcano Village. Class fee is $45/$40 VAC members plus a $25 materials fee. The class is limited to 8 participants and masks are required. To register, call Volcano Art Center at 808-967-8222 or visit www.volcanoartcenter.org.
Introduction to Paper Making with Mary Milelzcik
Join artist Mary Milelzcik for the “Introduction to Paper Making” workshop on Saturday, November 13, 2021 from 10am – 2pm at Volcano Art Center Niaulani Campus in Volcano Village.
Learn the basics of making your own paper, and recycle at the same time! This papermaking workshop, using a household blender, will introduce you to papermaking using recycled papers with various additives, including cotton linters, and local plant materials. Students will use a postcard-sized Japanese suketa to make several sheets of paper and move on to using larger sized moulds and deckles and alternative screens to create larger pieces. You are encouraged to bring dried plant material, colored papers, and other items to add to the pulp or imbed in their paper. You will leave with a basic knowledge of papermaking, a variety of papers, your mould and deckle, tub, felts, shredded papers, resource list, and instructions on how to make paper at home using an old blender or drill attachment paint mixer. Bring lunch! An hour will be for a lunch break, critique, and Q &A.
The class fee is $65/$60 for VAC members plus a $38 fee, inclusive of supplies.
Advanced Papermaking workshops (TBD) will be held at Arts Asylum studio in Pahoa for participants who have basic papermaking experience. The focus will be papermaking using local fibers, and cover the selection and preparation of fibers, to making paper. Plant fibers will include pineapple, banana leaf, fruit & pseudo stalk, and lemongrass. A variety of larger sized traditional and alternative moulds and deckles will be available for use.
Mary Milelzcik has a B.A. degree from Sonoma State University’s School of Expressive Arts, a radical two-year upper division interdisciplinary experimental program, where you worked with a mentor, and chose your own path in upper-division art. Printmaking and papermaking were her focus. This transformative experience set the path for an interesting career as a mixed media artist and photographer; as the Curator at Highways Performance Space and Gallery in Santa Monica CA for ten years; and as an instructor of mixed media encaustic art, papermaking and printmaking. Currently, she is exploring the integration of hand-ground local pigments and organic materials into her handmade paper from local plants, and mixed media encaustic work. Her artwork has been shown internationally. Workshops are held at her Arts Asylum studio in Pahoa by appointment.
Instructors Lydia Meneses, Valdeane Odachi and Dina Wood Kageler will teach Make Your Own Holiday Magic, A Make-and-Take Zentangle Celebration, Saturday, November 13, 2021 at the Volcano Art Center. This gathering will celebrate the holidays as tanglers create original works using the Zentangle-inspired method. Instructors will provide tiles, art papers and will offer tangling tips as well as their diverse collections of pens, pencils, ribbons, bells and ideas to jumpstart the holiday season.
Students must wear masks during class. Please bring your own snack/beverage or individually packaged snacks to share.
This class is open to all levels, no Zentangle or art experience necessary. Cost is $35/$30 VAC Members plus a $15 fee.
Make Your Own Mosaic with Michael Reeder
In this class you will create usable art under the guidance of expert mosaic artist, Michael Reeder. You’ll learn the basics of mosaic art using a prepared 9″ x 9″ wood template on which you develop your own design. Make a trivet or a wall hanging for yourself or a heartfelt holiday gift. All supplies are provided but, you are welcome to bring your own special pieces.
Make Your Own Mosaic Workshop is a 3 session workshop, held on Sundays November 7, 14, and 21, 2021, from 10am – 12pm at Volcano Art Center Ni‘aulani Campus in Volcano Village. Class fee is $45/$40 VAC members plus a $25 materials fee.
Beginning Mosaic Classes for Keiki’s with Dina Kageler
Come join artist Dina Kageler for a fun after school mosaic art class. Keiki ages 6-12 are invited to create a special personal piece or a wonderful holiday gift for the family. The basics of mosaic art will be taught using a prepared 9”x 9” wood template with pre-made designs to choose from.
Beginning Mosaic Classes for Keiki’s is a 3 session workshop, held on Mondays, November 8, 15, and 22, 2021, from 3pm – 5pm at Volcano Art Center Ni‘aulani Campus in Volcano Village. Class fee is $45/$40 VAC members plus a $25 materials fee. The class is limited to 8 participants and masks are required. To register, call Volcano Art Center at 808-967-8222 or visit www.volcanoartcenter.org.
Poured Watercolor Floral Contrast Painting Workshop with Patti Pease Johnson 11/20
In this workshop, you’ll draw, mask, pour, mask, and pour again, then detail with specific watercolor techniques of gradation, drybrush, negative painting, stencil lifting. Students will create an 8 x 10” painting on cold press 140 lb. watercolor paper, by working from light to dark in 4 stages.
A still life floral photo is provided in color and gray tones to show values patterns of light, mid-tones, and dark. Completion of each stage will be done step by step together with the instructor.
Big Island artist and instructor Patti Pease Johnson says, “It’s about being both free with yourself for the pours, which are always a surprise, then disciplined for the details of the main flower, followed by abstraction qualities to complete the background. I think the final painting is complemented by the contrasts.”
Beginner and intermediate artists welcome. Patti supplies all materials along with focused guidance and inspiration for this process along with some handy tips for your creative journey. Cost for the workshop is $50/ $45 for VAC Members plus a $15 supply fee per person. For more information or to register call VAC at 808-967-8222.
Community Mosaic Celebration
Saturday, November 20, 2021, at Volcano Art Center’s Niaulani Campus in Volcano Village, from 4pm – 6pm. Join VAC to celebrate the completion of the Community Mosaic Project. We are excited to honor the talented artist and their creations, enhancing public art at the Niaulani Campus
Make Your Own Mosaic with Michael Reeder
In this class you will create usable art under the guidance of expert mosaic artist, Michael Reeder. You’ll learn the basics of mosaic art using a prepared 9″ x 9″ wood template on which you develop your own design. Make a trivet or a wall hanging for yourself or a heartfelt holiday gift. All supplies are provided but, you are welcome to bring your own special pieces.
Make Your Own Mosaic Workshop is a 3 session workshop, held on Sundays November 7, 14, and 21, 2021, from 10am – 12pm at Volcano Art Center Ni‘aulani Campus in Volcano Village. Class fee is $45/$40 VAC members plus a $25 materials fee.
Beginning Mosaic Classes for Keiki’s with Dina Kageler
Come join artist Dina Kageler for a fun after school mosaic art class. Keiki ages 6-12 are invited to create a special personal piece or a wonderful holiday gift for the family. The basics of mosaic art will be taught using a prepared 9”x 9” wood template with pre-made designs to choose from.
Beginning Mosaic Classes for Keiki’s is a 3 session workshop, held on Mondays, November 8, 15, and 22, 2021, from 3pm – 5pm at Volcano Art Center Ni‘aulani Campus in Volcano Village. Class fee is $45/$40 VAC members plus a $25 materials fee. The class is limited to 8 participants and masks are required. To register, call Volcano Art Center at 808-967-8222 or visit www.volcanoartcenter.org.
