Arts & Culture

Steve Petranik,

Waikīkī’s Magical Mystery Show features bewitching sleight-of-hand performers who make the audience part of the entertainment.

Kathryn Drury Wagner,

The O‘ahu-based producer has worked with Martin Scorsese, Olivia Colman, Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe, Brie Larson and many other stars.

Aimee Wickler,

Attendance is up 70% from pre-pandemic years – and this time more locals than tourists are coming for the exhibitions and events.

Austin Bourcier,

Ki-Lin Reece is a luthier at KR Strings, where he restores family heirlooms and old Hawaiian instruments.

Chavonnie Ramos,

Glass artist Arlie Pemberton creates her jewelry with 2,200 degrees of heat.

Kalawaiʻa Nunies,

Two Hawaiian language experts and other sources say the proper spelling and pronunciation doesn’t include diacritical marks.

Noelle Fujii-Oride,

JT Ojerio of Aloha de Mele painted one of the 70 murals at the Hawai‘i Walls festival in Kalihi.

Krystal Spear,

Michelle Clemen left a nursing career for creative work, and assures the skeptical that “you can make a living from being an artist.”

Noelle Fujii-Oride,

Paola Rodriguez Beltran’s Mudd Studio in Honolulu’s Chinatown goes through 3,000 pounds of clay a month.

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