A Legacy of Teaching at Windward Community College

Snowden Hodges and his students at Gallery ‘Iolani Feb. 2-March 2

Snowden Hodges self-portrait.

Snowden Hodges with Sean Yoro in 2012. Photo by Peter Owen

Opening Reception: Friday, February 2, 4–7 p.m., with entertainment by Kawika Kahiapo and Kapono Lopez

Gallery hours: 1–5 p.m., Monday–Friday and Sunday. Closed Saturday, federal/state holidays

A Legacy of Teaching exhibition at Gallery ‘Iolani honors the remarkable drawing, painting and Atelier Hawai‘i programs established and taught by Snowden Hodges for more than 30 years at Windward Community College. The exhibit includes the work of 27 former students that Hodges invited to participate, including former Atelier Hawai‘i student Sean Yoro, also known as “HULA,” who is on the 2018 Forbes Magazine list of 30 Under 30 in the Art and Style category.

Yoro, 28, is best known for painting half-submerged portraits of women’s faces on icebergs in remote places such as Iceland and the Arctic Circle to bring attention to global climate change. Since 2015, he’s worked with companies such as North Face and Instagram painting murals. Learn more about how Snowden inspired Yoro from this Windward Community College video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK6gKRsec7Y

In 2002 Hodges created Atelier Hawai‘i, a program in classical realism. In this intensive, immersion curriculum, students learn time-honored techniques of drawing and painting. Until 2012, when Hodges retired from teaching, the program was hugely successful, receiving critical acclaim and drawing students from Hawai‘i, other Pacific Islands, Europe and the U.S. mainland.

Hodges currently resides in Honolulu and is a University of Hawai‘i Professor Emeritus of Art.  His work is shown by The Fine Art Associates and the Cedar Street Gallery in Honolulu and the Harris Gallery in Houston.

A Legacy of Teaching runs through March 2.  For more information about the exhibition and/or studies in gallery design and management at Windward Community College, contact Gallery ‘Iolani Director Toni Martin at 236-9155 or visit gallery.windward.hawaii.edu.

For more information, visit: http://gallery.windward.hawaii.edu