Prints on the Road
& Printmaking Tours

  First Friday @ the Park

In July 2008, Honolulu Printmakers began a six-month series of “First Friday” printmaking workshops for neighborhood children in Chinatown. The workshops are part of a community outreach program (“Healthy Bound Chinatown”) conducted by the Arts at Mark’s Garage in concert with the Kalihi-Palama Health Center and under the auspices of the Hawaii Arts Alliance.

Occurring 4-6 p.m. each First Friday, this event attracts some two dozen children and families from the nearby Kukui and Maunakea Towers.

Activities led by Jared Wickware with help from other printmakers have included “scratch foam” printing, creating paper plate Halloween masks, and a “Sunset STAMPede” with kids designing and making their own rubber stamps and printing them on folding cards.  

Next up?  Printing with fruits and veggies—an extension of the programs emphasis on health.

Tour de Prints was a collaborative art project between The AV Club of Honolulu and students at McKinley High School. (The AV Club is comprised of four Hawaii artists and educators who seek to bring printmaking into the vanguard of contemporary art.)  

The artists spent 10 sessions with students to design and produce Tour de Prints, an interactive printmaking performance, using bicycles with self-inking tires.

The “Tour” was staged for the public in November 2007 at the Hawaii State Art Museum. During the event, anyone interested in prints and printmaking was invited to participate.  Members of The AV Club are Alan Konishi, Duncan Dempster, Michael Sweitzer, and Vince Hazen.

  Project Ignition

Project Ignition Hawaii was a collaboration between Honolulu Printmakers, Youth Service Hawaii, and local high schools. Art students from McKinley & Kapolei high schools took part in a month long workshop to create a hand-printed, by-teens-for-teens advertising campaign to increase awareness about the risks of distracted and disabled driving.

Results were exhibited in various public venues and one poster design was displayed on Honolulu city buses during Drivers’ Safety Week in November.

Students’ works were also used on bumper stickers, magnetic vinyl signs, and informational pamphlets. Participants have been asked to present the project at the 2009 Hawaii Service Learning Conference and at the National Project Ignition Conference in Nashville.

Printmaker/educators Erika Johnson and Robert Molyneux led the project with funding from the Hugh Stuart Trust, The Honolulu Mayor’s Office on Culture and the Arts, State Farm Insurance, and The National Youth Leadership Council.

Honolulu Academy of Art Classes
In addition to these offerings by Honolulu Printmakers, our facilities are also used by the Academy Art Center of the Honolulu Academy of Arts for full semester printmaking classes each fall and spring.

Current offerings include:

· Color Woodcut with Laura Smith, Mondays, 6-9 pm

· Beginning Etching with Christine Harris-Amos,
Wednesdays, 9 am to noon

· Advanced Etching with Christine Harris-Amos,
Tuesdays, 9 am to noon

· Lithography with James Koga, Thursdays, 9 am to noon
· Lithography with David Smith, Saturdays, 9 am to noon

· Water based Monotype with George Woollard,
Tuesdays, 6 pm to 9 pm.

· Screen Printing, Thursdays, 6 pm to 9 pm.

Honolulu Printmakers ~ Academy Art Center ~ 1111Victoria Street
Honolulu, HI 96814 ~ Phone (808) 536-5507