Group exhibition: Keisha Tanaka, Luana Low, and Nālamakūikapō Ahsing

There were once so many kāhuli snails that their voices were known to fill the forests with song. Keisha Tanaka's photography centers on those smaller moments that hold large space in our naʻau: Tūtū teaching their moʻopuna, ʻōpio joy, lāhui taking care of ʻāina, and all those fleeting emotions we sometimes take for granted. Keisha hopes these individual sessions, when seen together, paint a tapestry of lāhui and the stories we can sing if we use our voices together.

Luana is an ʻōiwi artist hailing from the ʻili ʻāina of Keaʻahala in beautiful Kāneʻohe, Oʻahu. Her art reflects her passion for native and beloved non-native flora, fauna, and landscapes of Hawaiʻi, which she captures in enchanting detail and vivid color. Luana's art centers her intimate connections with the subjects of her paintings, evoking feelings of connection. Through her work, Luana aims to inspire a greater appreciation for the richness and diversity of mea ʻōiwi in all forms, encouraging others to cultivate deeper, place-based pilina with those around them.

Jonathan Day Nālamakūikapō Ahsing was born on Oʻahu in 1998 and raised in Puʻuloa, ʻEwa by parents Alan and Karin Ahsing. He is a Kanaka Maoli artist, mahiʻai, and apprentice voyager. Nālamakū's work honors the lessons of his teachers, love of his family, and mana of his ʻāina. His work centers ancestral ecological knowledge and cultivates Kānaka Maoli life, land, and sovereignty. His process is his island, the material upon which he asks: What knowledge is encoded through pattern? How do we activate Indigenous wisdom to uplift contemporary solutions? How do we exact a language that embraces interdependence as a vision of the spectacular? Who are we as the ancestors of tomorrow?