Annual Meeting and Last Day of Annual Exhibition

Printmakers Notes - April

Our Annual Meeting is this Sunday April 28th starting at 4 pm at 1142 Bethel Street. We will host a potluck after the meeting. Bring a little something to share if you are able and don’t worry about it if bringing something is stressful.

Last Day to View our Annual Exhibition is tomorrow - Friday DAC 11am - 6 pm + HP 9am - 5pm

Dear Community,

A warm reminder to attend our Annual Meeting on April 28th, 4 pm. Calling all members, neighbors and friends of HP. We want our studio filled to the gills with creative friends sitting on tables, counter tops and even the floor. Do not miss this meeting! Yes- we will have chairs.

We have decisions to make that are important for the future of HP. Everyone must be involved. Our decisions in the next 6 months will impact us for the next 20 years. In order to better understand the needs of our community, our board created a member survey. The board will present the results of this survey at our annual meeting. It is vitally important to have your input. We want to know what you think about our downtown studio, class offerings and also help us think about our direction for the years ahead.

Our 100 year anniversary is on the horizon.

I am providing the details below to help guide your input. 

Our studio move from HOMA to 1142 Bethel cost more than $25,000— the studio was closed for over a year. The move was paid for with donations, grants and with the unique and valuable skill set of Duncan Dempster. Any future studio relocations should be considered with this data in mind. 

HP must have a long term plan—a 10 year plan is our ideal. Our current monthly recurring expenses with Rent/CAM/Ed salary, parking, internet average: $9,100 per month. Our membership numbers are rising back to pre pandemic levels- we currently have 132 current members and 50 lapsed members. We have grown our Professional/Hui Membership numbers from 13 to more than 30. We have 12+ dedicated volunteer monitors. Our studio is open 40 hours per week and we about to expand to 48 hrs w/ 2 extra evenings per week. Sunday and Monday we offer classes. We are active with printers and we are a valued partner with our local arts organizations and businesses. 

So let's dream into it. Help us plot and plan for the future. Where will we be in 3, 5, 10 years? and Who is ready to help?

Denise Karabinus, Executive Director

President Marcia Morse,  Vice President Jeffrey Davis,  Secretary Carole Iacovelli,  Treasurer Mary Hattori

Directors:  Vince Hazen, Marcia Pasqua, Raj George, Kristi Cardoso, Monica Garrett, Steven Yuen

96th Annual Exhibition Opens Friday April 5th

Please come join us for opening night and awards on First Friday April 5th from 6 – 8pm

The Honolulu Printmakers 2024 96th Annual Juried Exhibition will be displayed across two venues — the Honolulu Printmakers Studio at 1142 Bethel Street and the Downtown Art Center (street level) at 1041 Nuuanu Avenue.

The show will run from April 5th – 26th, 2024. The Downtown Art Center will be open Tuesdays – Saturdays 11am – 6pm and Honolulu Printmakers 9am – 5pm

You ARE Invited! Annual Membership Questionnaire

Annual Meeting is April 28th starting at 4 pm at 1142 Bethel Street.

April 7th - Juror’s Walk Through of our Annual Exhibition.

Plan to begin at DAC at 2:30pm and talk will end at HP at 4:00 pm.

Dear Community,

It has been an honor to lead Honolulu Printmakers forward for the last 22 months as the new Director. I am proud of our many successes and excited about the future.

I have a favor to ask—I want everyone to attend our Annual Meeting on April 28th, 4 pm. I mean everyone! Calling all members, neighbors and friends of HP. Our studio will be filled to the gills with creative friends sitting on tables, counter tops and even the floor. Do not miss this meeting! Yes- we will have chairs.

Together - we have decisions to make that are important for the future of HP. Everyone must be involved. Our decisions in the next 6 months will impact us for the next 20 years. In order to better understand the needs of our community, our board created a member survey. The board will present the results of this survey at our annual meeting. It is vitally important to have your input. We want to know what you think about our downtown studio, class offerings and also help us think about our direction for the years ahead.

In 3 years, we will celebrate our 100 year anniversary.

I am providing the details below to help guide your input. 

Our studio move from HOMA to 1142 Bethel cost $25,000— the studio was closed for over a year. The move was paid for with donations, grants and with the unique and valuable skill set of Duncan Dempster. Any future studio relocations should be considered with this data in mind. 

HP must have a long term plan—a 10 year plan is our ideal. Our current monthly recurring expenses with Rent/CAM/Ed salary, parking, internet average: $9,100 per month. Our membership numbers are rising back to pre pandemic levels- we currently have 132 current members and 50 lapsed members. We have grown our Professional/Hui Membership numbers from 13 to 32. We have 12+ dedicated volunteer monitors. Our studio is open 40 hours per week and we about to expand to 48 hrs w/ 2 extra evenings per week. Sunday and Monday we offer classes. We are active with printers and we are a valued partner with our local arts organizations and businesses. 

So let's dream into it. Help us plot and plan for the future. Where will we be in 3, 5, 10 years? and Who is ready to help?

Denise Karabinus, Executive Director

President Marcia Morse,  Vice President Jeffrey Davis,  Secretary Carole Iacovelli,  Treasurer Mary Hattori

Directors:  Vince Hazen, Marcia Pasqua, Raj George, Kristi Cardoso, Monica Garrett, Steven Yuen

Relief Engraving Workshop - April 19th, 20th, 21st

This workshop is generously supported by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts through our 2024 Biennium Grant and is part of our 96th Annual Exhibition Programming. Neighbor island artists who wish to participate should sign up right away and then contact HP to learn more about how HP can be supportive.

ABOUT JOHANNA

Relief Engraving is much like detailed wood engraving, but in this workshop we will use innovative plastic plates as our material. Learn carving techniques with engraving tools that focus on mark making, line, pattern and value, as well as printing techniques specific to the plastic plate.

The plates provides incredible opportunity for detail. Focusing on tool usage and carving motor skills, we spend ample time learning what marks each too makes, and how to employ line, pattern and value. Participants will have ample time to work on planning an image, executing their engraving, and when ready will learn inking and printing best practices for use with plastic plates.

Discount Code was sent out to Current Members in a previous email.

Congratulations Accepted Artists

ACCEPTED WORK LIST

Dear Printers- It is such an honor to organize this exhibition on behalf of the Honolulu Printmakers. Our Juror made a carefully curated selection of many fine prints this year. There was so much great work to choose from. We had high participation rates among students and neighbor island artist this year and I saw a lot of fresh work and new names along side many of our legacy artists.

As always, there is amazing work that does not make it into the show each year. Do not get discouraged. Psst! —my work was also not selected this year. We love and appreciate having your support in the form of volunteering and participating even if you were not included in the show this year. The Annual Exhibition is our largest volunteer run project every year. It is an opportunity for us to gather and celebrate. I will be in touch soon about opportunities to assist with the exhibition. Much Aloha, Denise

JUROR’S STATEMENT

It is an honor to be the juror for the 2024 Honolulu Printmakers annual show. I came to Hawaiʻi in 2022 as a curatorial fellow in works on paper, photography, and new media at Honolulu Museum of Art where I work with the Western collection. Since my very first days, I was impressed by the long tradition and quality of printmaking in Hawaiʻi. This show is further evidence of the level of creativity and talent among artists here. The Honolulu Printmakers have been seminal to the definition of the arts in Hawaiʻi since the beginning of the last century. Many of Hawaii’s most respected artists have provided a gift print for the annual show and many more have supported the Printmakers as instructors, volunteers, or students, assuring that there is a communal place for the development of the creative arts. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve this institution and this community. 

As a juror, I strived to show a representative slice of the work being produced here today. I endeavored to judge each work on its own merits while being inclusive of stylistic categories. Printmaking is an intimate medium and digital reproductions do not do it justice. The details in texture, color, and line are not always available on the screen. The decisions were difficult, and I might have erred at times. If your work was not selected this year, I would encourage you to apply again next year and to continue to explore and expand on the medium of printmaking.  

Let me thank the Honolulu Printmakers for the great service they provide our community and to all those who entered the exhibition for their creativity and courage in sharing their work. Congratulations to all! 

Alejandra Rojas Silva 

Works on Paper, Photography and New Media Fellow  

Honolulu Museum of Art  

New Classes Starting Soon

We are delighted to Welcome our 2022 Juror Sheila Goloborotko back to Honolulu! Sheila is a visiting artist at the University of Hawaii— Manoa from mid February - March. She developed 3 rare opportunities to learn side by side with a Master Printer at Honolulu Printmakers. Starting Soon! Collagraph: From Surface to Soul, Turning Point Sessions and One of One Printing with a Master Printer.

Sheila Goloborotkoʻs Website

Tracey Cockrell will offer a dynamic online professional development course called Advanced Studio Dialogue. This course is open to artists everywhere. Do not miss this chance to dive deep into your studio practice and leap frog forward. This course includes a valuable one on one session!

Tracey Cockrellʻs Website

Sheila during her 2022 Visiting Artist Workshop Watercolor Monotype

Tracey Cockrell interdisciplinary artist who synthesizes sculpture, experimental music, & feminist linguistic theory —Advance Studio Dialogue.

2024 Gift Print Announcement

2024 Gift Print Artist is Kandi Everett.

Kandi Everett is our 2024 Gift Print Artist

Every year since 1933, the Honolulu Printmakers has commissioned a local printmaker to produce an edition of prints that the organization makes available to its members and the public to raise funds for its activities. The Gift Print Artist for 2024 is Kandi Everett

Artist Bio:
Kandi Everett has been tattooing for customers with wildly diverse desires since 1977. In July 2002, she began focusing her artistic energies on works on paper and joined the Honolulu Printmakers. Kandi is an avid collector and historian of tattooing and eclectic art artifacts. She enjoys drawing and printmaking. Kandi is known for her fierce painterly monotypes and dynamic figurative drawings frequently with humorous sexuality or a dark biting edge.

Kandi graduated from University of Hawaii. Her main education was between classes and lectures. Her real education was as a dishwasher in Waikiki, a fry cook in an Italian restaurant and in a stint as a Tieg welder.

Kandi Everett received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1969. She has exhibited her works locally, nationally and internationally, most recently at the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, the Honolulu Academy of Arts and Windward Community College.

This year the Gift Print was produced in a limited edition of 50 impressions, with profits from sales going directly to support the work of the Honolulu Printmakers as we continue to establish our new studio. The print is pre-sold sight-unseen until the opening of our annual exhibition, after which the price increases. The first and second impressions are retained for archival purposes.

Pre-sale member price: $75 (HP MEMBERS: GET IN TOUCH VIA EMAIL FOR THE DISCOUNT CODE)

Pre-sale nonmember price: $100

Price for all after April 5th, 2024 at 6:00PM : $125

Talk Surveying the Art of John Kjargaard with Marcia Morse and Jeffrey Davis

This talk is sure to sell out super fast!

Note: Tickets on sale to Friends of Liljestrand on January 4, 2024.

Tickets on sale to general public on January 5, 2024. 

Liliestrand House Talk Click the LINK HERE

Tuesday, January 23, 2024 5:30 – 7:30pm

Surveying the Art of John Kjargaard with Marcia Morse and Jeffrey Davis

In partnership with Honolulu Printmakers, join us at Liljestrand House for an evening of presentation, conversation and refreshments.

John Ingvard Kjargaard (1902-1992) was an American painter, printmaker and collage artist. He studied art at Cooper Union in New York City and continued his studies at University of California, Berkeley, and later with Josef Albers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. While still a student, he worked in the art department of a San Francisco engraving firm, which led to his start as a color etcher. Kjargaard came to Honolulu in 1937 to work as a photo-engraver at Paradise of the Pacific magazine, which later became known as Honolulu Magazine. He served as board president of Honolulu Printmakers and was one of the few artists to be invited to create a gift print twice, once in 1955 and again in 1976.
 
Marcia Morse and Jeffrey Davis will present an overview of John Kjargaard’s life and work, along with a discussion about his process and techniques.

One lucky program attendee will take home a John Kjargaard print, generously donated by Jeffrey Davis. Before the presentation, attendees can enter the drawing with a $50 suggested donation and the winner will be announced at the end of the presentation. Multiple entries allowed and encouraged. 

Marcia Morse was raised in Hawai’i before leaving for further education on the mainland. After completing her undergraduate work with honors at Harvard University, she spent two-and-a-half years living in Quito, Ecuador, where she began her study of printmaking. She received her MFA in Printmaking at Stanford University before returning to the islands. While teaching at Honolulu Community College, she completed her PhD in Political Science in 2012, and retired as Professor Emerita of Art from the UH system in 2018.

Marcia Morse is also active as an artist, art critic and freelance curator. She has participated in numerous solo, small group, juried and invitational exhibitions, and is represented in several private and corporate collections in the U.S., Japan and Europe. She currently serves as President of Honolulu Printmakers, and is a Docent and volunteer at the Honolulu Museum of Art.

Jeffrey Davis first moved to Hawaii in 1981 after college. After a career in the corporate world, Jeff decided to follow a passion to work in non-profit arts and has many years of experience working in marketing and development areas at the Honolulu Symphony and with film festivals such as HIFF, Rainbow FF and Palm Springs FF.  In addition, Jeff has managed External Affairs at the San Francisco Symphony, was Director of Events for Honolulu Museum of Art and a Program Officer at East-West Center in Honolulu.

In retirement, Jeff is active on several boards such as Honolulu Printmakers, Hawai’i Concert Society, Hilo Palace Theater and Lyman Museum.  He has served on the boards of Aloha Festivals, Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Cultural Foundation, Honolulu Symphony Guild, Donkey Mill Art Center, Volcano Art Center and his Hilo condo board. Jeff has been a member of Rotary in Volcano and also volunteers with Food Basket. 

Jeff has varied interests which include documentary films, small social groups, Asian travel and collecting contemporary art of Hawai’i artists. 

Be sure to catch the exhibition, Point of Inspiration: Kjargaard Project, at the Honolulu Printmakers Studio. Opens Friday, January 5, 2024, at 6pm. On view through February 2, 2024. 

Opening Friday Jan. 5th 6 - 8 pm Points of Inspiration - Kjargaard Portfolio and Mokuhanga

Please joins us this Friday evening for 2 Great Exhibitions in the Print Studio.

Points of Inspiration - Portfolio of Color prints inspired by renowned Hawai‘i printmaker John Kjargaard from the collection of Jeffrey Davis. Includes work by: Paul Galang, Sonny Ganaden, Monica Garrett, Vince Hazen, Denise Karabinus, Jihae Kwon, Naoise Magee, Tamara Moan, Marcia Morse, Marcia Pasqua, Helena Noordhoff, Boz Schurr, Laura Smith, Eileen Towata

Mokuhanga Work inspired by the 2023 Juror’s workshop taught by Hiroki Morinoue. Artists include Hiroki Morinoue, Kathy Merrill Kelly, Faith Stone, Aileen Feldman, Renee Ijima, Mary Mitsuda, Dana Anne Yee and the Mill Mokuhanga Forum.