Saturday, March 5, 2022 - 10:00am to Friday, March 25, 2022 - 4:00pm
The 34th Annual Young At Art Juried Exhibition 2022
Place: Spaces That Shape Us
Flickr Album slideshow at the bottom of the page!
On View: March 5–25, 2022
Sponsored by East Hawai‘i Cultural Center and the Hawai‘i District Department of Education
The Young at Art annual juried exhibition celebrates National Youth Art Month by recognizing the excellence, creativity and originality of K-12 students on the Big Island in all public, charter, and private schools, as well as home-schooled students.
The theme of the 2022 Young at Art Exhibit is: Place: Spaces That Shape Us. This year’s theme asked students to reflect on significant settings that have impacted them in important ways. The theme seeks to examine identity and how it is informed by the spaces around us. We asked students to create from these places, physically or metaphorically, and look at the roles that these spaces have played in shaping who they are today. We encouraged students to explore emotional connections to certain locations, positive or negative, big, small, real, imaginary…
2022 Satellite Exhibits
We're excited to announce East Hawai‘i Cultural Center has partnered with our Downtown Hilo friends, the Hilo Public Library (300 Waianuenue Ave.) and Mokupāpapa Discovery Center (76 Kamehameha Ave). Artworks are located in the Waianuenue Ave. facing window, displaying some of the works selected for this year’s show in the community. Youth Art Month is a big deal around here and we want as many people to be able to experience the artworks as possible!
Both satellite exhibits will be on view until the end of March.
Kupuna Gallery Hour
Saturday, March 12
9:00 AM–10:00 AM
The first hour of the day will be reserved for high risk visitors and seniors (age 60 and above) and an accompanying caregiver or assisting family member.
For disability accommodations please email [email protected] or call (808) 961-5711.
Updated Booklet PDF at bottom of page with students names, artworks and display location listed.
Brittini Kuwahara is a boy-mom of a 4 year old, graphic artist by day and an obsessive fiction reader by night. She is currently the Assistant Marketing Manager for KTA Super Stores, freelance graphic artist and the illustrator for the locally written book, “I’m a Happy School Bus”. She finds that art is a feeling which you may find transfers into her creations. Follow her personal IG at @britt.ini.kuwahara or the I’m A Happy School Bus page @bubsiebus!
C.M.Butzer is an illustrator, printmaker, and cartoonist who lives on the Big Island in Hawaii. His illustrations have been in numerous books, publications, and have been used on product designs. He wrote and drew “Gettysburg. The Graphic Novel” for Harper Collins which was featured in the Top Ten Non-fiction Graphic Novels of 2009 by the American Library Association. He illustrated the “Naturalist” Graphic Adaptation of the famed autobiography of E.O.Wilson for Island Press in 2020. He has illustrated numerous young adult non-fiction books. Most recently “The First Dinosaur” for Simon and Schuster in 2019. He is an avid printmaker, preferring silkscreen above all other forms of printing because of its vibrant colors. He has exhibited his handmade prints, books, comics, and zines at curated festivals and shows across the continental United States and Canada- including the MoCCA Festival, LA Zinefest, Linework NW, Comic Arts Brooklyn, SPX, Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and many more. His work has been featured in the Society of Illustrators, American Library Association, and the Graphic Novel Reporter.
Punky Aloha Studio is the illustration studio of Shar Tuiasoa, a freelance illustrator based in Kailua, Oahu. After studying Fine Art at her local community college for 6 years, Shar moved to California to earn her BFA in Illustration. She moved back to Hawaii shortly after and started Punky Aloha Studio in the summer of 2018.
Punky Aloha Studio houses various branches of illustration work, ranging from Murals, Freelance and Client work, Product Sales, Fine Art, and Licensing.
Shar has worked as a freelance illustrator with multiple editorial clients on Oahu including Honolulu Magazine, Hawaii Magazine, and Hawaii Business Magazine. She has also created work for local organizations and businesses like Ho’ola Na Pua, Honolulu Museum of Art, and Foodland.
She has created artwork for Apple, Facebook, Sephora, Patagonia, AT&T, and The New York Times and is currently working on her first of two picture books as an author and illustrator for Harper Kids, an imprint of Harper Collins.
When she is not creating illustrations for books, magazines, and product packaging, Shar also sells a wide range of art prints and products in her online shop, in retailers throughout Hawai’i, Japan, and in the Mainland of the US.
Thank you to the following individuals and businesses for their contributions to this year’s exhibit!
Andrzej Kramarz
Brittini Kuwahara
Chris Butzer
Donkey Mill Art Center
Hawai‘i District Department of Education
Hilo Public Library
KTA Super Stores
Mokupāpapa Discovery Center
Monika Mann
Monique Ortiz
Puna Geothermal Venture
Shar TuiasoaC.A.R.S.S
Mel's Equipment
Isemoto Contracting
Akamai Art Supply
Cafe 100
Want to be part of next year’s exhibit? Email [email protected] to be added to our mailing list.
This program is made possible in part by funding from Hawaiʻi Council of the Humanities through the Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the federal American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
