Educational Gallery Tours

We offer educational guided tours for elementary to college level students as well as organized community groups of 10 or more. Tours provide visitors with background information on the exhibit content as well as and engaging experience in observation, and discussion and meaningful personal connections. There is no admission fee for these tours, but reservations are required.

 


ARTWORKS Tours

Imagine the Schaefer Gallery as your classroom! ARTWORKS guided education tours focus on exhibits in the Gallery, and are designed for Grades 3 through 12. Tours are tailored to compliment the content of each exhibit and provide an informal creative setting for student participation. All tours meet the Hawai'i Learning Standards for visual art and integrate into other core curriculum areas.


Students are engaged through viewing, responding and hands-on activities. Teaching artists work directly with students, to help them understand artistic concepts, process, and techniques.


• The ART WORKS tours are led by Gallery education staff
• The fee is $6 per student (limit 25)
• Suggested timing is 9:30-noon, weekdays.
Students should wear clothing in which
they can 'get messy' ... and bring a healthy snack
Reservations are required and should be made at least one month in advance. For tour information and scheduling please contact:
Neida Bangerter
Gallery Director
808-243-4288


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Schaefer International Gallery


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Gallery hours:
Tue-Sat 11 am – 5 pm
Also open before shows in the Castle Theater and during intermissions.

FREE admission!

 

 

current EXHIBIT


June 7 – July 5, 2009        chico
Art Maui

Celebrating its 31st year in exhibiting Maui’s extraordinary growing community of visual artists, Art Maui brings forward a wide range of contemporary work,  including drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed media and digital technology in this popular  annual juried exhibition. Always a favorite for young and old, with something for everyone.



July 18- August 22 Deybra Towers
Deybra Fair and Wayne Zebzda
Schaefer International Gallery Open Tue-Sat 11am-5pm


Deybra: Fair Towers

Well known Maui artist Deybra Fair whose colorful mural greets you on the way to Castle Theater, has been working on a new series of tall towers made from her vast collection of found objects and treasures. Expect to see a self-reflecting body of work that includes mixed media installation with themes on endangered species, spirituality, self reflection, environment and family.

Wayne Zebzda: RoadTrip Wayne RT

Wayne Zebzda is a multi-media artist from Kauai. For his witty and thought provoking gallery installation, Zebzda takes common discarded traffic signs, road lines, reflective glass bumps and changes their meaning in ways that offer fresh interpretations of objects that guide our every day actions.Wayne describes this body of work as “ Highway art made by second-hand collaboration with the general public.”







May 29 – September 11, 2009       
Schaefer Portrait Challenge 2009 on oahu
May 29 – September 11, 2009
at The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center
One of Hawaii’s most influential surfers and shapers, Bob “Ole” Olson will be one of the portraits featured in the Schaefer Portrait Challenge on view at The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center May 29 through September 11, 2009.

According to artist Charlie Lyon, Ole is a true charismatic surf ambassador and master shaper and his boards are made with a special touch of aloha. Ole is one of many “faces of aloha” that will be on view in the Schaefer Portrait Challenge.

The exhibition is organized and presented by the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, and has become a showcase of outstanding Hawaii artists and a chronicle of the changing face of Hawaii.

In Honolulu, the exhibition is coordinated by Inger Tully, Curator of Exhibitions. It will be available for public viewing Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. and Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. Admission is free. Free docent-guided tours of the exhibition will be offered on third Thursdays (June 18, July 16, and August 20) at noon in the lobby during the run of the exhibition. The First Hawaiian Center TCM gallery will also be open on First Fridays June 5, July 3, August 7, and September 4, 2009, from 7 to 9 p.m. Artist talks will be offered on First Fridays at 7:30 p.m. First Fridays gallery openings and artist talks are free.

Main (808) 526-1322
www.tcmhi.org





2009-10 EXHIBIT SCHEDULE Coming Soon

View brochure page from 2009-2010




 

GALLERY ARCHIVES
Exhibit and artist info: (.pdf)
Continuing Lines (Charlot, Mullowney, Rodriguez)
VINTAGE: Maui Artists with a Presence
Akiko Kotani / Kaori Ukaji
Stephen Freedman / Ron Smith
Sam Ka'ai
Arts of the Upland Philippines
Witness to Time / Edward Bailey
Lynne Gilroy
Linda Kane
Randy Takaki
Sally French
Christopher Reiner
Schaefer Portrait Challenge Catalog

 

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