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Part of 60th anniversary of the Center for Pacific Island Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Featuring work by seventeen of the most outstanding art-stars of the Pacific region, whose creations have been featured on the cover of The Contemporary Pacific Journal, the world's leading scholarly journal on current Pacific affairs.

There is no denying that agriculture is front and center in the World’s eye these days. Driven mainly by population growth, increased demand, economies and grass root movements, a spark of regional awareness and concern has come to light. Four Hawai’i based artists with ties to the Hamakua Coast of the Big Island will explore the themes of sustainability, environmental impact, and local food production through a variety of media and methodology. Using approaches ranging from collage, printmaking, photography, painting, sound, video and sculptural installation, the artists will explore such topics as GMO’s, local farm commerce, plantation history, and native ecosystems, responding and reflecting on issues that are of both regional and global concern.

Hui Panala'au, a Bishop Museum designed exhibit, that explores the occupation of isolated Pacific Islands in the years preceding World War II, will be on display at The ARTS at Marks Garage beginning Thursday, December 15th and ending January 16, 2010. The exhibit, which received a national award of commendation from the American Association for State and
Local History in 2003, was originally displayed at Bishop Museum in 2002 and has been traveling throughout the state.



Hawaii artists explore Community, Communication, & Print. A reaction to the expansion of electronic communication & the demise of newspapers & printed media by Honolulu Printmakers, the oldest printmaking organization in the U.S.


Slow News International
Big picture issues sent slow-mail…Scrolls from artists around the world.

Presented by BROADTHINKING Curatorial Project, New York City and The ARTS at Marks Garage, Honolulu. This exhibit is designed to be the antithesis of instant messaging, celebrate Community, and beat the high costs of shipping art to and from Hawaii.

Featuring artists from New York, Tokyo, London, Berlin and across the United States.

Marks presents Hawaii Glass Artists 7th Annual Exhibition featuring Hawaii’s best glass artists from throughout the state. From blown to stained, lamp-worked to fused, HGA "struts their stuff" in this years show.

Artists Exhibiting: Ben Burton, Edward Clark, Richard Duggan, Gordon Eder, Kelly Habecker, Hillary Heckard, Derek Hostetler, Hugh Jenkins, Michael Edward Jones, Lauren Adelman, Rick Mills, Mark Mitsuda, Alan Ness, Mark Nowicki, Bud Spindt, Stephanie Ross, Kazuki Takizawa, Emily Thomas, James Wong, Daniel Wooddell, & Trevor Wright.


A selection of contemporary Pacific Island art from Cook Islands, Fiji, Hawai‘i,
New Zealand, Nuie, Samoa & Tonga.

Artists exhibiting:
Maile Andrade, Leanne Lupelele Clayton, Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu, Leilani Kake,
Lily Laita, Nanette Lela‘ulu, Janet Lili, Carl F.K. Pao, Siliga David Setoga,
Ema Tavola, Angela Tiatia, Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi

Land & sea portraits of plants and animals by legendary fine art photographers & award winning environmentalists David Liittschwager and Susan Middleton. Images from the main & Northwestern Hawaiian Islands together for the first time.

Artists address how social conventions, personal abuses, underground crime, gender roles, physical disability, ego, or other potential mental, intellectual, spiritual, or physical restriction prohibits women and girls from FREEDOM and liberty and how these women and girls deal, survive, overcome, or are still caught up in these situations.

Featuring functional and nonfunctional objects in ALL MEDIA in or about fiber or fiber techniques

Fiber Hawaii breaks the boundaries of fiber art. Since 1982, this innovative exhibition encourages creative interpretation of fiber as technique as well as idea. It is open to artists working in all media giving them an opportunity to explore their work within the context of contemporary Fiber Art. The prospectus for Fiber Hawai‘i’ is available at various locations throughout Hawai‘I and our office at The ARTS at Marks Garage or on our site: http://www.hawaiicraftsmen.org.


Eco/Logic A hybrid exhibit: artists/activists/community.
Striking a balance between Pretty Pictures and Doom and Gloom, Eco/Logic was an environmentally themed exhibit coinciding with Hawaii Conservation Week. This multi-disciplinary exploration of environmental issues included an Open Call to Artists, invitations to key artists and neighborhood groups, Hawaiian and environmental activists, commissions, and community projects. Over 5,000 people saw this show and the collaborations initiated between the arts and environmental communities continues.