The 36th Annual Young At Art Juried Exhibition 2024
Sponsored by EHCC 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 Hawai’i Island in all public, charter, and private schools, as well as home-schooled students.
Young At Art is a community-based art experience. The exhibit will be on view at multiple locations across Hawai‘i Island. Locations include small businesses, public libraries, County facilities and more.
221 artworks will be showcased at 20 locations around the island, aiming to bring more visibility to Youth Art Month (March) and the importance of arts education in schools.
Made possible with support from the 2024 County of Hawai‘i Waiwai grant program.
MEET THE JUDGES
Boz Schurr
Boz is currently a drawing, painting and computer illustration and animation teacher at Kamehameha Schools Kapālama. She is also a freelance graphic designer, muralist and artist/illustrator. She enjoys traveling the world (when she can), painting murals around the island, running, drinking coffee and chilling with her cat, Marmalade.
Akira Biondo
Director of Operations, PangeaSeed Foundation
Akira, originally from Switzerland, is the Director of Operations at PangeaSeed Foundation and a co-founder of the Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans program. Her passion for the environment stems from her extensive travels across the globe and experiencing first-hand humanity’s impact on the planet. With a background in Sustainability Studies and Cultural Anthropology, she believes that protecting our home planet for future generations requires an interdisciplinary approach that includes the arts, creative problem-thinking, and the voices of all people.
Tre’ Packard
Founder & Executive Director, PangeaSeed Foundation
Tré Packard is an internationally renowned public art curator and award-winning environmental photographer marrying both art and activism to cultivate a new era in marine conservation. As a passionate conservationist, Tre’ has traveled throughout Asia documenting some of the most remote locations bringing to light never before documented fisheries contributing to the destruction of ocean ecosystems and the often illegal trade of threatened marine life.
He is the creator of the Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans public art program which has curated over 550 environmental ocean-themed public artworks in 20 countries since 2014.
Danya Weber
Danya Weber is a conservation biologist and artist focused on the preservation of native Hawaiian biodiversity. Danya is the founder of Laulima, a conservation-oriented brand. She is also the director of Laulima Nature Center, a community hub centered around native species outreach and education.
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