{"id":57721,"date":"2017-03-21T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=57721"},"modified":"2019-02-28T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T02:55:21","slug":"taupouri-tangaro-featured-in-bishop-museum-exhibit-celebrating-hawaiian-creative-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/21\/taupouri-tangaro-featured-in-bishop-museum-exhibit-celebrating-hawaiian-creative-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Taup\u014duri Tangar\u014d featured in Bishop Museum exhibit celebrating Hawaiian creative vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_57730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57730\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/hilo-bishopmuseum-Exhibit-huliaana.jpg\" alt=\"book cover\" width=\"620\" height=\"449\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/hilo-bishopmuseum-Exhibit-huliaana.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/hilo-bishopmuseum-Exhibit-huliaana-260x188.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hulia <span aria-label=\"Ano\">&#699;Ano<\/span>: Inspired Patterns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Hawaiian cordwork done by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2016\/01\/19\/taupouri-tangaro\/\">Taup&#333;uri Tangar&#333;<\/a><\/strong><\/http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=57721&#038;action=edit>, director of Hawaiian culture and protocols engagement for the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Community College<\/a>, will be featured in an exhibit at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bishopmuseum.org\/\" >Bishop Museum<\/a>. In celebration of Hawaiian creative vision, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bishopmuseum.org\/Hulia-Ano\/\" >Hulia <span aria-label=\"Ano\">&#699;Ano<\/span>: Inspired Patterns<\/a> will be on display March 18&#8212;October 16 in the J. M. Long Gallery.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57732\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/uh-hilo-artist-tangaro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"263\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/uh-hilo-artist-tangaro.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/uh-hilo-artist-tangaro-198x260.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taup&#333;uri Tangar&#333;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tangar&#333;&#8217;s work threads the expansive world of cordage into modern relevance. As a kumu hula of <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.hawaii.edu\/humd\/iolahaloa\/UNUKUPUKUPU.html\">Unukupukupu<\/a>, he also teaches students, faculty and the greater community the benefits of perceiving the world from multiple perspectives.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2016\/01\/19\/taupouri-tangaro\/\">Taup&#333;uri Tangar&#333; named director of Hawaiian culture and protocols engagement<\/a>, <em>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ Hilo Stories<\/em>, January 19, 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He is one of five artists\u00a0presenting at the exhibit and the only one whose published biography notes using cordage medium for academic success.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is a great opportunity to expound further the university&#8217;s commitment to indigenize,&rdquo; he explains. &ldquo;A\u00a0unique opportunity to create a discussion on the role of traditional arts as a process for academic success.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Exhibit<\/h2>\n<p>Patterns, intricate and vibrant, are a trademark of Hawaiian artistic expression, whether stamped onto barkcloth, drawn onto gourds, woven into mats or pricked into skin.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing from the treasures in Bishop Museum&#8217;s ethnology collection and supplemented by its vast natural science collections, Hulia <span aria-label=\"Ano\">&#699;Ano<\/span> explores Hawaiian aesthetic traditions, spotlighting design motifs and visual similarities in the natural world.<\/p>\n<p>This original exhibit examines the <span aria-label=\"Ano\">&#699;Ano<\/span>&#8212;or nature&#8212;of an object in pattern, shape and form.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with the aesthetic emphasis of the show, displays are organized on the basis of design motifs, in contrast with the more conventional contexts of function or material. Each exhibit case throughout Hulia <span aria-label=\"Ano\">&#699;Ano<\/span> is represented by a single Hawaiian word and its many definitions. These words were chosen as visual or conceptual descriptions of the patterns presented in the cases.<\/p>\n<p>The results are wonderful and intriguing groupings of cultural and natural objects which, considered together with the word definitions, can enhance the understanding of patterns and provoke creativity and contemplation.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the exhibit and the other artists on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bishopmuseum.org\/Hulia-Ano\/\" >Bishop Museum website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2017\/03\/16\/exhibit-bishop-museum-taupouri-tangaro\/\"><em>From ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ Hilo Stories<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taup&#333;uri Tangar&#333; is one of five artists presenting at the exhibit and the only one whose published biography notes using cordage medium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":57730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[105,598,61,33,71,14,907],"class_list":["post-57721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-art","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-hawaiian","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-hilo-stories","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/hilo-bishopmuseum-Exhibit-huliaana.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57721"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78500,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57721\/revisions\/78500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}