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    "pk": 63127,
    "title": "“Our Gallery is the Heiau”: A Discussion of the Revitalization of Hawaiian Wood Carving ",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "<p><em><span style='font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: \"Calibri\",sans-serif; color: black;'>This dialogue between Andre Perez and J. Kēhaulani Kauanui explores the recent revitalization of Hawaiian wood carving through two recent projects Perez had a leadership role in. Perez is founder and project director of Hui Kālai Kiʻi o Kūpāʻaikeʻe, a carving apprenticeship program based in Waiawa, Oʻahu, Hawai‘i. In 2025, he co-curated, with Hawaiian artist Kaili Chun, the exhibition </span></em><span style='font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: \"Calibri\",sans-serif; color: black;'>Ho‘okāhi ka ‘Ilau Like Ana—Wield the Paddles Together<em> at Gallery ‘Iolani at Windward Community College. For the show, Perez and Chun selected canoe paddles made in the Pacific carving village that Perez organized for the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture (FestPAC) in 2024. In the FestPAC carving village, hosted by Bishop Museum, master carvers from various Pacific nations created large wooden canoe-steering paddles (hoe uli). In this discussion, Perez and Kauanui cover a range of issues related to the traditional Hawaiian practice of carving, including the cultural politics of Indigenous revitalization.</em></span><!--EndFragment--></p>",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC-ND 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Hawai‘i"
        },
        {
            "word": "contemporary art"
        },
        {
            "word": "carving"
        },
        {
            "word": "ki‘i"
        },
        {
            "word": "tiki"
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        {
            "word": "art activism"
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        {
            "word": "voyaging culture"
        },
        {
            "word": "Pacific Islands"
        },
        {
            "word": "sculpture"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Creative Work, Research Notes, & Interviews",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0603v36s",
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        {
            "first_name": "Andre",
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            "last_name": "Perez",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "J. Kēhaulani",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kauanui",
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    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2026-02-25T11:14:00-08:00",
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