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Windward Artists Guild Spring Show

We are happy to announce the completion of the Hoʻomaluhia Botanical Garden Gallery renovation and Windward Artists Guild's return to the venue which has hosted so many of our shows through the years. Please join us for the reception on Sunday, April 6, 12:30 - 3:30 pm. The gallery is open daily 9:30 am - 3:30 pm and our show will be up from April 2 to April 29, 2025. We hope you will come enjoy the art and the gardens. The juror of awards for this show is Lynne Boyer, the talented plein air painter and teacher (and world-class legendary surfer). We hope to see you at the show!

Social Media

Just a reminder that Windward Artists Guild is active on Facebook and Instagram. Please check us out for the most up-to-date information. Facebook Instagram Also, one more little piece of exciting news: we will be having a Spring Show this year at the new and improved Hoʻomaluhia Botanical Garden Gallery! More information and a prospectus is coming soon!

Ready for the Holidays!

Windward Artists Guild will be joining the Association for Hawaii Artists to deck the halls of Arts at Marks Garage with amazing gifts for the holidays. See all the relevant information below (it's a choose-your-own postcard adventure!), and please do join us for two special receptions: Festive First Friday, December 6 from 5 - 8 PM. December 27 from 5 - 8 PM. Pau Hana -AND- Pau Makahiki!

WAG on the Morning News!

Thank you to KHON2 News for documenting Windward Artists Guildʻs 64th Annual Member Show at Honolulu Hale! They were wonderful this morning - we had a lot of fun filming and talking about the art! The show continues to be on Exhibit now through September 11, 2024. Below are the morning news segments, each approximately 3 minutes, in order: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP3zwbksGNQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKmbKi1MdUE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9hsvC1rs6k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqHyi6W3GLI

WAG 64th Annual Member Show

Thanks to everyone who attended our wonderful reception on August 22. The show will be available to view at Honolulu Hale during weekdays between 8:30 am - 4:30 pm until September 12, 2024. You can purchase art works using this link: https://windwardartistsguild.org/64th-member-show

Windward Artists Guild 64th Annual Show

Please join us at the reception on Thursday, August 22 from 4 - 6 pm for the opening reception of our latest show, located in the soaring space of Honolulu Hale. Itʻs a beautiful show! The juror is Robert Mace, who did a wonderful job of selecting 99 pieces for display from just shy of 130 entries. He had to curate for space, so every piece kept had fierce competition to be on display, and the result is a very polished show that lives up the the theme of diversity featuring everything from hand-painted silks and bronze sculpture to assemblage and ceramics along with our usual paintings in a variety of media. We have online sales, though it is designed to work in tandem with the actual show. We have thumbnails and titles of each work, but it is not a full online show. However, you may purchase the works from this show here during the duration of the show: https://windwardartistsguild.org/64th-member-show

WAG Member Show 2023 at Hoʻomaluhia Botanical Garden

Show Dates: October 2 – 30, 2023. Gallery hours are 9:00 am – 3:30 pm daily. Calling all WAG Members and all artists who would like to join us to be part of this annual show: It is time once again for the Annual Members Show! There is not an entry fee, but you need to be a member of WAG. MORE INFO FOR ARTISTS WHO WANT TO BE PART OF THE SHOW: Submission: Members are invited to submit up to two (2) pieces of art. The entry form with title, medium, size and price, is due on Wednesday, September 27 (see form on p. 4). Intake: Sunday, October 1, 9:30 – 11:30 am. NO WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER 11:30 A.M. PLEASE BE MINDFUL OF THIS SCHEDULE SO NO ONE IS DISAPPOINTED. Reception to Meet the Artists, Sunday, October 8, 12:30 – 3:30 pm. We’re returning to a WAG tradition and holding the Annual Members Meeting at the beginning of the reception. We still cannot have food and beverages in the Gallery. We’re looking into the options for an outdoor refreshment area. Pickup: Tuesday, October 31, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm. Please be prompt so that the Gallery can be prepared for the next exhibition. There are no facilities for storing art that isn’t picked up. Please get all the details here: 2023-WAG-Member-Show-Prospectus_FinalDownload

Downtown Art Center “Emergence” Exhibit

The Emergence Show will be on display at Downtown Art Center until May 27, 2023. Featuring 52 artists from Windward Artists Guild and Association of Hawaii Artists, and memorial exhibits of art from Candace Fenander, Joan Fleming, and Barbara Sumida. The show includes all media, including paintings, drawings, ceramics, several types of glass art, and wall sculpture.

A Belated Memorial

The family of Bette Decker was kind to reach out and let us know of her passing in July of 2022. Jenna Lacy, Betteʻs granddaughter, shared some wonderful information that will be interesting to all of us who have benefitted from Betteʻs skills as an organizer and an artist. "Bette was a co-founder of the Windward Artists Guild along with her friend Rosalie Prussling" along with Gini McCall, Lucille Cooper, and with the assistance of Juliette May Fraser and David Ash. "She was a fierce lover of life and adventure and had such a keen eye for interesting art and antiques, which she often used as models in her paintings. She was always wearing some fascinating conversation piece or article of clothing, changing the molecules in the room with her astonishing intellectual synthesis of life and the hidden realities of the world, and always having the most fun. She was an artist to the very core of her heart, and we are feeling the tremendous force of loss of her absence in our family." Thank you to the family of Bette Decker for letting us know. She left us a wonderful legacy of friendships, great shows, thousands of dollars of good deeds, and an organization that turned 60 years old back in 2020! Her obituary is below but you can also find it here: https://www.stoessfuneralhome.com/obituary/Bette-Decker Bette Marie Decker, 92, passed away on July 31, 2022. She was born in San Diego, CA. She was the first of three girls born to W.T. Wolley, Lt Commander USN (Ret.) and Nelly Wolley. She followed her passion in 1948 by studying fine arts at Florida State University and University of Hawaii. Throughout her life she actively pursued her love of art and painting, and created thousands of pieces, to include design in oil, acrylic, clay, sculpting, etchings, and print in a variety of media. In 1950, she married the love of her life, Walter Decker in Pensacola, FL. Bette was the co-founder and Creative Art Director of the Aloha Candle Company, Resort Line Hawaii, and Banana Bay clothing company. She co-founded the Windward Artists Guild in Kailua, HI, which still exists today. She was president of The Made in Hawaii Association, a large group of manufacturers of local Hawaiian products. She loved teaching children creative expression through art in various forms at the YWCA and the Summer Arts Program for children in Kailua-Kaneohe, Hawaii, later volunteering in classrooms for children ages 5-18. The majority of her life was spent in Hawaii and Kentucky. Bette is survived by four children, six grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.

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