Spring Show Summary, Stay Tuned for Next Show: October 2025!

Thank you to the thousands of visitors who came to Hoʻomaluhia and visited the gallery to see the show! It was a very good show with a lot of wonderful experiences for the artists involved, and we hope for our visitors as well! Our next show will be in October 2025, same place, Ho'omaluhia. This is extremely unusual. We feel very lucky to show twice this year at one of the best gallery spaces on the island! The juror for this show was accomplished local painter Lynne Boyer who also just happens to be a two-time world surfing champion. Quite an impressive set of accomplishments! She chose awards for our guild that we would like to document in this post. Mikyung Yee, "My Favorite Book", Oil Painting, 24 x 36 in., Award: Susan Rogers-Aregger Best in Show Donna Sommer, "Kuliʻouʻou Park", Watercolor, 18 x 22 in., Award: First Place Ellen Dieter, "Riding High", Mixed Media on Canvas, 36 x 36 in., Award: Second Place Spencer Chang, "Nā Mokulua", Oil Painting, 16 x 20 in., Award: Third Place Kelley Fitzgerald, "Hoʻomaluhia Reservoir", Oil Painting, 12 x 24 in. Award: Honorable Mention Dagmar Kau, "Kelp", Stoneware Clay, 12 x 13 in., Award: Honorable Mention Barbara Tinius, "Golden Shower Tree", Pastel, 9 x 12 in. Award: Honorable MentionCongratulations to the award recipients! The show and the reception were wonderful!

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!

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

Call for Entry: Windward Artists Guild 61st Annual Member Show Prospectus

Aloha WAG members! We are still facing shortages of display space on Oahu including our traditional venue of Ho'omaluhia, which is not open, so we are going online at least once more with a show that will be much like our 2020 shows, and the date of posting will be November 5, thus the deadline to enter is October 25, 2021. The good news is that our past online shows were viewed by a lot of people, not just those on Oahu, and the resulting sales were equal to our best and exceeding many of our usual in-person shows. I have no hesitation in urging you to participate. Best of all, the show is free to members, and you are welcome to join just for this show. WAG membership is $30, but if you already paid your membership for 2021, there is no entry fee, just a commission of 15% for any sales made through the site. The cost of putting on a show like this is minimal. That means the majority of proceeds go to support educational projects such as our grants to teachers and the popular Adventist Health Castle virtual class series. You may display up to 4 pieces. Please see all details by downloading the prospectus here: Prospectus-for-WAG-2021-Online-Members-Show-rev2Download

Site Makeover in Progress!

WAG's site has looked more or less the same 2014 - 2020, but for 2021 we are adjusting it a little to reflect all the design changes that have happened in the past 7 years. The physical entity of the site has also moved around behind the scenes, finally attaining a level of independence that it has never had before, so this is the perfect time to celebrate by giving it a makeover. Don't worry - all the archives and subdomains will be here. Please bear with us as we re-upload, move, and spruce up the site. For the next few days, parts of the site may not be uploaded yet. If you notice anything not functioning correctly after April 8, 2021, please email us to let us know that you have found an error and we will fix it and notify you that it has been repaired. Thank you!

Update to Star Advertiser’s Artweek

The Artweek feature on the Star Advertiser just got a nice update. If you want to see what is going on throughout the art scene on all the islands, here it is. There's a lot of listings! It's a good page to bookmark for those of us who love art!  I am adding it to the art links for easy access. http://www.staradvertiser.com/features/calendars/artweek/

Happy New Year from WAG

With 2015 upon us, we have some exciting events coming up for the first half of 2015. Prepare your pieces for an upcoming spring show. More details will be announced closer to the show, but we are aiming for late spring (probably April or May). In the meantime, this past holiday season, we thought it might be fun and quite a bit easier to plan a gathering for February rather than trying to pack a WAG party in our already over-scheduled holiday season. Details are pending with these events, but it is something to look forward to as we wrap up winter and start the new year.

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