There will be an artist talk and ohana-style potluck with James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Educator Award recipient Wendy Maruyama from 6 to 8 p.m. April 5 at the Donkey Mill Art Center. Maruyama, who has been making furniture and art since 1970, will give a presentation of her life’s work and an overview of a weekend workshop she will be teaching.
There will be an artist talk and ohana-style potluck with James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Educator Award recipient Wendy Maruyama from 6 to 8 p.m. April 5 at the Donkey Mill Art Center. Maruyama, who has been making furniture and art since 1970, will give a presentation of her life’s work and an overview of a weekend workshop she will be teaching.
Maruyama’s work is often inspired by extended residencies and visits to various countries such as France, England, Japan, Korea and China. Maruyama’s newest work, “Executive Order 9066,” is influenced by personal and family history and addresses the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans in 1942. This event dramatically changed the Japanese-American psyche.
Maruyama’s workshop runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 6, 7 and 8 at the Donkey Mill Art Center, three miles south of Holualoa Village on Mamalahoa Highway. Tuition is $225. She will teach the various ways images can be transferred to wood surfaces and how these surfaces can create storylines, depth and metaphor. Participants are asked to bring color Xerox images from photos, books, magazines, drawings or text with which to work.
For more information, visit donkeymillartcenter.org or call 322-3362.