YASUKO TOBE ABESHIMA (Art)

Award-winning watercolor artist. Member of the Association of Hawaii Artists and Signature Member of the Hawaii Watercolor Society, where she won the Best of Show award at their 1999 Membership Show. Represented by Koolau Gallery and Gift for all Seasons Gallery. Yasuko’s work was selected for the Inaugural Exhibit of the Hawaii State Art Museum.

SUSIE Y. ANDERSON (Art)

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Susie is a devoted oil painter, passionate about painting outdoors “en plein air”. She is a Signature Member of the “Plein Air Painters of Hawaii” and a juried member of “Oil Painters of America”—one of only seven artists selected from Hawaii.

Susie's paintings are in numerous private and corporate collections worldwide, and in the permanent collections of the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the City & County of Honolulu. She has won many honors for her work in juried shows including six Best-of-Show/First Place awards, has shown at the "Artists of Hawaii" show at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and was a regular guest artist at the Academy’s “Showcase 2003-2007” exhibitions.

Susie has lived in Hawaii since 1969 and is a graduate of the University of Southern California. She is a member of the Gallery at Ward Centre, and currently represented by Nohea Gallery, Fine Art Associates, Maui Hands, and Kaukini Gallery on Maui, as well as District Gallery in Park City, Utah. Susie has been a member of NLAPW since the mid 1970’s and is a past President of our Honolulu Branch.

RITA ARIYOSHI (Letters)

Author of National Geographic Traveler Hawaii. Winner of the 1998 Pushcart Prize for her short story "Jamming Traffic." Grand Prize winner at the 1998 National Steinbeck Center Short Story Competition with "The Woman Who Shot the Mother of God." Her most recent novel, The Mango Queen of Waikiki, is currently out with an agent. Continues doing travel writing and short stories.

EDNA FARDEN BEKEART (Music)    

Famed composer of Hawaiian folk-songs, children's music, love songs, and mele inoa (honoring a person). Expert at stage production, pageantry, costumery, script writing and transposing music. Foremost educator and leading authority on Hawaiian history and culture.

Highlights: Co-author with her sister Irmgard Aluli, of "Hawaiian Time," a collection of 12 children's songs. Her collection of 30 original songs, registered with Mountain Apple Publishing Co., became the acclaimed Ginger Memories.

In 1998, The Roses of Delta Kappa Gamma, was pronounced the winner at the Delta Kappa Gamma Society and adopted as their state song. In 2001, Loyal Garner and the Local Divas recorded her song, Maunalua Bay.

JODI BELKNAP (Letters)

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Kraken-Ka, The Komodo Dragon, a Tale of Indonesia. The extraordinary illustrations for Kraken-Ka by Joseph D. Dodd, Director of Scenic Design at UH, were honored with an award for excellence in illustration from the Hawaii Book Publisher's Association in 2008.

Tiqri, The Little Snow Fox, A Tale of the North Pacific. 'Ohi'a Productions will launch author Tamara Montgomery's play adapted from the book in two educational shows at Hawaii Theatre this fall before touring it to schools for their Story Surfer program.

When the Cassowary Pooped, A Tale of New Guinea, by Tamara Montgomery, Director of Youth Theatre at the University of Hawaii, and edited, designed and co-authored in part by Jodi.

ELSHA BOHNERT (Art & Letters)

Elsha’s way of writing and making art is by keeping a screw loose at all times. She gets inspired by little kids’ drawings and she goes absolutely ape nuts at the unbridled blotches, smears and scribbles of Cy Twombly, even going so far as sincerely asking permission to spend the night at the feet of his monumental masterpiece, “Say Goodbye Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor,” at the De Menil Museum in Houston, Texas.

It was her first experience of a painting ripping her heart out. Her earnest request was summarily dismissed. For weeks afterward she contented herself by sleeping with a copy of it under her pillow. In her dreams stuffed animals conversed in Italian and ate moo-shoo pork.

Elsha has received a surprising number of awards, including the prestigious John Young Award for Freedom and Artistic Vision at the 2005 Artists of Hawaii Show and, more recently, the 2011 James M. Vaughn Award for Poetry. She ascribes her success to “crazy immigrant’s luck,” something that can happen when you have no clue but you’ve come all this way so you gotta do something even if it makes no sense.

Her favorite quote is “People of zee world, relax!” It comes from Tom Robbins’ novel, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates. Since she knows about hot climates, loose screws, and screwing up, she makes it her practice to say, “I’m sorry,” at least three times a day. She hopes it will eventually lead to world peace.

“Estrogen Levels Rising” 2011

    
“Vagina Breathing” 2010   “Stained Offering” 2007

http://www.WhatWouldElshaDo.com
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CAROL CATANZARITI (Letters)  

Carol Catanzariti is a federal mediator with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, a registered nurse with a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Hawaii, School of Law, and a freelance writer and poet. Her life's blood is her writing and her work has appeared in Hawaii Review, Evergreen, Hapa, Honolulu Magazine, Honolulu Advertiser, Colorado Woman and others.

She won the 1996 NLAPW First Place Poetry Award and has had her poem-peace ribbon, "Keep the Earth Green," displayed at the Smithsonian Institution. In addition, her poetry was selected for Honolulu Poetry on the Bus.

BARBARA CLEMENS (Letters)              

Barbara Clemens, former university English instructor and software product manager, writes and edits computer textbooks for the college and university market. She has also published magazine and newspaper articles. She is an avid choral singer, and has sung with the Hawai'i Vocal Arts Ensemble.

E. SHAN CORREA (Letters)      

Shan is a former university instructor (English/ journalism) and a professional freelance writer, writing for both children and adults - fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Published in regional and national books, magazines and literary journals. Honored with many awards, among them national First Place awards in the Adult Fiction Category of the NLAPW Biennial Letters Competition 1996, 1998 and 2000. Most recent fiction sales to Japanophile, Cricket Magazine and Cicada; poetry to American Poets & Poetry, A Time for Singing and the Rain Bird; articles to Trade Winds, Honolulu Magazine, and ByLine Magazine.

Shan’s food features and columns appeared in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin for over two years, but she is currently concentrating on writing fiction and poetry for children.  She has penned a musical (writing music as well as lyrics and book) for Hawaii’s children, and her first children’s novel was published April 1^st, 2010, to good national reviews. 

Gaff (Peachtree Publishers, Atlanta) is set on a farm in Hawaii where the narrator’s father raises fighting cocks for a living.  Paul Silva, “almost thirteen,” tells of his growing doubts about the family’s role in the “sport” of cockfighting, and what he finds that he must do to become a man.

CORNELIA CONNIE D. DEDONA (Letters)

Cornelia Connie D. DeDona is the award winning self-published author of, Letters to a Prisoner by Connie D...

Letters to a Prisoner received an Honorable Mention in Poetry at the 2011 New York Book Festival. It is currently required reading at Habilitat-the place of change, a drug rehab in Kaneohe, Hawaii. Cornelia returned to Habilitat in August 2011 to share her Slam Poetry inspiring a healing connection through the wonder of the spoken word.
 

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Published in Rain Bird, an annual art and literary journal of Windward Community College since 2008, Cornelia created, co-edited and contributed to Saturdays with Lillian, an Anthology of Writing and Art, honoring the college’s monthly writing retreat.

 

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She is a member of the Friends of the Library, where she volunteers year round pricing books in Poetry and Philosophy. She leads a monthly creative writing group for Habilitat-the place of change. She is also a sustaining member of The Academy of American Poets. Cornelia’s latest book, Meadow Pause Revisited, a book of poetry and photography, is scheduled to launch on Amazon in October 2011.

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ELISABETH KNOKE DIECKVOSS (Art) 

www.dieckvoss-art.com

Internationally exhibiting artist, featured in Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art and the Unconscious Mind, a comprehensive overview of artists of the century, published by Cornell University in 1999; One Source Sacred Journeys (1997), and Artists of Hawaii (1995).

First Place winner of 1999 AMI National Convention Juried Art Competition, and winner of two Association of Hawaii Artists Juror's Awards in 1996. Served as Chair of Docent Council and Artists Research at the Contemporary Museum. Director/producer for "Olelo" grant of the Contemporary Museum in 1992.

CAROL EGAN (Letters)

Carol Egan began dance training at an early age in California and pursued professional studies at the Juilliard School in New York. Since then she has danced, taught, and choreographed throughout the U.S. and Europe; managed several small companies, most notably the Jazz Tap Ensemble (1980-84); written for numerous magazines and newspapers and contributed articles to the International Ballet Encyclopedia.

She also served as consultant to many small non-profit organizations; served as a panelist and site visitor for the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, The New York State Council on the Arts, and the State Foundation for Culture and the Arts (Honolulu); and acted as one of four national Dance Committee members for the CIES, Fulbright Committee.

Ms Egan began writing about dance in 1976 when she became the San Francisco Bay Area News correspondent for Dance Magazine. She has since written articles for Ballet Review, Dance Horizons, the Berkeley Voice and several other East Bay publications, Diablo Magazine in Walnut Creek, The Honolulu Advertiser (where she served as dance writer from 2001-2010), Malamalama, HI Luxury and Halekulani Living magazine.

JODI ENDICOTT (Art)

The stock market holds many metaphors for life's universal emotions – those of faith, hope, despair, and greed. This series of paintings is an interpretation of the drama, fluidity, and power of the market’s essence.

The lines, figures, and patterns are scraped into the gesso.  I throw or trowel the paint, often completely covering what was there before. I dig into canvas to find the image. The past movements show through.  This additive and subtractive process results in a thick and highly-energetic surface. 

In some of the works, the paint flows like water – so that it  reads like an ocean and follows the movement of a stock chart. What is initially seen, changes upon deeper reflection and speaks of our time.  .Jodi Endicott

website: www.jodiendicott.com

SABRA RAE FELDSTEIN (Art)    

Name of chair: Beatrice Inspired by the Beatrice in Dante's "Divine Comedy" Dimensions: height: Height 37', Width 18', Depth 18' Acrylic Paint with Mixed Recycled Materials: wings, sock dyers, wig head, shawl                        

Graphic designer and clay artist, Sabra Rae Feldstein, turned to painting in 1995, taking classes with Timothy Ojile and participating in Playworks, an open studio with Nan Holmes.

She has taught furniture  painting classes at the Volcano Art Center on the Big Island and on Hornby Island, Canada. For two years she ran the art program for the children of war in Croatia with Global Children's Organization. In 2002, she ran the GCO art program for children of violence in LA.

Her paintings have been exhibited at the Artists of Hawaii at the Academy of Arts, Hawaii Pacific Gallery, Koa Gallery and the City &County of Honolulu Recycle Art Shows, her art work is on sale at The Contemporary Museum Shop.

MOLLIE FOTI (Art)

Mollie was educated on the East Coast, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Hawaii, where she fell in love with ceramics. She also studied at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. She is a founding member of The Windward Potters and for many years was active in Hawaii Craftsmen, serving as chair of their annual show.

 Along with Penwomen Gail Hazlehurst and Linda Hutchinson, she was a director for the Hawaii Loa College Art Gallery until the college was folded into Hawaii Pacific University. Mollie has been in many juried shows and galleries on Oahu. When she is not in her studio you will find her out sailing, paddling a canoe or enjoying her many grandchildren.

VICTORIA GAIL-WHITE (Letters)

Victoria has written art columns for The Honolulu Advertiser since 2001. She is a textile artist and teacher and has exhibited her marbled fabric and paper works in local galleries and juried exhibits here and on the mainland. For five years she owned and operated The Art Plantation Gallery in Haleiwa and is currently Vice President of the Honolulu Chapter of NLAPW.

Trained at The Culinary Institute of America in Rhinebeck, New York, she spent twelve years working as a professional chef. Her original recipes for organic baked goods keep her busy with special orders when she’s not writing, snorkeling, traveling or kayaking.

She has been acting on Hawaii’s community theater stages since 2002 in both leading and supporting roles and was awarded a Po’okela for leading female in The Actors Group’s 2006 production of Edward Albee’s, The Goat or Who is Sylvia?---which also received an Ensemble award.

She has been in television commercials, an extra in movies, and read both stories and plays for Hawaii Public Radio. She had the pleasure of directing the very talented Pen Woman, Jan McGrath, in a performance of “The Belle of Amherst” in the spring of 2010.

Victoria has been an interpretive guide at Doris Duke’s magical Shangri La since 2005. Basically, she lives and enjoys a very creative life.

JOAN GENCARELLI (Letters)

After thirty years as systems analyst, designer of software products and technical writer, Joan now concentrates her writing to her passion for words of fun and feelings as well as meanings. Several of her short stories have been published by Rainbird Literary Journal , and Bamboo Ridge Magazine.

Joan is the proud recipient of the 2006 Lorin Tarr Gill Honorary Mention award for non-fiction and the 2006 Kolekolea award from the staff of the literary journal, Rainbird. She is currently writing her second novel, and marketing her first.

JOY GOLD (Letters)

Born and raised near the piko of Oahu, Wahiawa, Joy Gold has been writing since small kid time. Her poem, "Sansei" was published in RicePaper, a Canadian-Asian Literary magazine, and "Po-Ho, Waste Time" was published in the Hawaii Review. Her sweetheart, The Viking, keeps after her to submit more of her writing to publications.

 MARGO GOODWILL (Art)

M. Goodwill is an American artist currently living on the North Shore of Oahu. Born in California , smack in the middle of the 20 th century, she has a fine arts education and has been working as a professional artist for over thirty years. She has lived overseas and traveled extensively. Her artworks reflect the spirit, color, and texture of the Hawaiian Islands , in which she couples inspiration from the classic Western masters, the Impressionists and the primitives.

M. Goodwill's original works can be found in numerous galleries, private collections and in public spaces worldwide. Here in Hawai'i the Wave Nightclub in Waikiki featured her 30' x 90' original mural design. Her enjoyable and distinctive art style also adorns a large collection of fine art reproductions, greeting cards, calendars, shower curtains, gift bags, mugs journals, glassware, T-shirts, and designer fabrics.

"My desire is to continue to expand creatively, embrace life's opportunities, and take advantage of the synchronicities of my times."

A complete resume or inquiries concerning specific originals available upon request.

Email: margo@mgoodwillart.com
 

NORMA W. GORST (Letters)

Norma W. Gorst writes poetry and short fiction. In 2010, she won Honorable Mention in the James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry Competition at Hawaii Pacific University for her poem “Wooden Box.” Her poetry chapbook, At The Edge of Speech, was published in 2005, and in 2006, she collaborated with Carol Catanzariti on the chapbook Seeking An Answer, a book of linked poems (both published by Finishing Line Press).

Her poetry can be found in the following publications: Chelsea, Chaminade Literary Review, Cottonwood, Hawaii Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Kaimana, Rain Bird, and Sister Stew (Bamboo Ridge Press). Cricket magazine published her children’s story, “A Night in the Barn,” in 2003, and her adult story, “Rowan,” appeared in Bamboo Ridge in 1999. 

The Honolulu Advertiser published Norma’s story, “A Shell for Mrs. Everhart,” winner of the paper’s short story competition for 1996. In 1991, she won a John Unterecker Prize for Poetry from Chaminade University for her group of three poems published in Chaminade Literary Review.

GAIL HAZLEHURST (Art)

Gail Hazlehurst is a sculptor working in clay and has a B.F.A. degree from University of Hawaii, audited a course in Exhibition Design and Gallery management by Tom Klobe and has a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Hawaii Pacific University. Her sculptures have been exhibited in juried art exhibits on Oahu and Maui.

Gail is also the owner of Creative Clay Company which coordinates and teaches clay hand-building classes for adults and children and she has taught classes at the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, several private and public schools on Oahu, the girl scouts and for the home schoolers.

Gail also worked as one of the Gallery Directors for Hawaii Pacific University from 1987-1993 and is a past board member of the Friends of the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu and Hawaii Craftsmen.

Gail may be reached at gailann@hawaii.rr.com.
Visit Gail's website: www.gailhazlehurst.com

Gail Pike Hercher began her college education at Boston University but received art degrees from the University of Hawaii (B.F.A., M.F.A.) where she was greatly impacted by the Pacific Rim aesthetic. She then returned to New England where she taught printmaking, papermaking and the book arts in colleges, museums, art centers and residencies based on her book, 'Crafting With Handmade Paper,' (Rockport, 2000).

Her prints are featured in 'Making Monotypes Using Gelatin Plates' (Hand Books Press, 2002) and are in numerous public and private collections including the former TCM (The Contemporary Museum) in Honolulu.

Gail has received many awards and grants, including a Fulbright Fellowship to study art history in Europe. She also completed graduate work in art history at Boston University and received a certificate in Museum Studies from the Museums Collaborative in New York City. She has worked in several major museums and published many articles about New England art and history.

Now living again in Hawaii, Gail continues to work as an artist and writer. She teaches creative arts at Linekona Art Center and The Kamehameha Summer School.

GLENDA CHUNG HINCHEY (Letters)

Glenda Chung Hinchey is a third-generation Korean-American, born and raised in Hawaii. She graduated from the University of Hawaii (BA Sociology) and then traveled solo around the world for seven years, living in California, Thailand, Europe, and New York.

She taught English at Thammasat University, Voice of America, and AUA Language Center in Bangkok and was a graduate student in music at Columbia University.

A former Hawaii Public Radio commentator, she has published an anthology, three memoirs, and many newspaper columns.  She lives with her husband in Honolulu.  They have two daughters, a son-in-law, and two grandchildren.

Glenda's email is glendahinchey@yahoo.com
 

LINDA HUTCHINSON (Art)

Linda Hutchinson was born and raised on Kauai.  Encouraged by her parents, especially her painter father, she began drawing and painting at an early age.  Linda graduated from Punahou School,went to The University of the Pacific for two years, married, had three children, and then returned to school. 

She received her BFA degree in drawing and painting from the University of Hawaii and has taught ay the Honolulu Academy of Arts and Le Jardin Academy.  Her work has been shown in a variety of shows from the Easter Art Festival to the Artist of Hawaii Show.  She spends her time painting, practicing yoga and enjoing her nine grandchildren.

KAETHE KAUFFMAN (Art & Letters)

"Cancer Meditation", 40" x 40", Mixed Media on Paper, 2001

Exhibiting artist of multi-media paintings, drawings and photographs with a recent one-person exhibit at the Czech Museum of Fine Arts in Prague. Ph.D. in Art History and Women's Studies, teaching Studio Art and Art History at Chaminade University.

RIA KELTZ-REMENAR (Art)

Ria Keltz-Remenar has made Hawai'i her home in 1963. Her sustained commitment to her art is based on the personal pleasure that her art provides. Ms. Remenar's abstract watercolor, acrylic and mixed media work are enriched by her creative application of vivid color and innovative use of texture. These techniques are applies with equal success to her large multi-canvas work, as well as her smaller paintings on D'Arches paper and layeristic assemblages.

Ms. Remenar has six large paintings at the Honolulu International Airport; her work is also in numerous private and corporate collections in Hawai'i, the US mainland, Canada, Australia and in Europe.

Email: ArtByRKR@yahoo.com

SUSAN KILLEEN (Letters)

LAVONNE LEONG (Letters)

Lavonne Leong is an award-winning freelance writer and editor. Born and raised in Honolulu, she received her BA from Barnard College in New York City and her MPhil and PhD in English Language and Literature from Oxford University. Her academic work has appeared in books and journals internationally.

Past local editing projects include Broken Trust, which was named 2008 book of the year by the Hawaii Book Publishers’ Association. Lavonne is currently a contributing editor for Honolulu Magazine, covering arts and culture. She is a member of the Modern Language Association and the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Her children’s book, Milo’s Island, is forthcoming from BeachHouse Press.

MARCIA ZINA MAGER (Letters)

Marcia Zina Mager is an author, journalist, poet, award-winning mixed-media artist, as well as performance artist. Her books have been translated into ten languages. Her international best-seller, BELIEVING IN FAERIES: A Manual for Grown-ups, is now available as an e-book, along with her trendy 31 Words to Create an Organized Life.

"My Curious Game" People's Choice Award

Recent awards include first prize for fiction in the NLAPW’s 2010 Lorin Tarr Gill Writing Competition, and the People’s Choice Award for the NLAPW’s 2011 Biennial Art Show. Marcia regularly entertains audiences in Chinatown as a wild improviser with HomeWreckers, and also performs her original slam poetry at Fresh Café’s First Thursdays.
Visit her at www.marcia-zina-mager.com

NANCY P. MOSS (Letters)

Nancy's play Anna, about the Russian poet and lover of men Anna Akhmatova, was performed by The Actors Group in 2002 and will have a New York City showcase starting April 21st, 2011.  More information at www.nancysplays.webs.com.

Nancy Moss first wrote fiction, such as Second Chance, (Zebra, 1981) and, under a pseudonym, Island Ecstasy (1988) along with two other romances. She turned to drama performed by Theatre West Virginia in 1989.

Her musical, Infinite Jest, about the life and works of Laurence Sterne, writer and randy priest, had a production in Honolulu at Tenney Theatre in 1998 and a Showcase in New York City in October, 2002. Jazz musician Howard Leshaw composed the music.

In 2008, Kumu Kahua Theatre produced Nancy Moss's play Hostage Wife in May, and The Actors Group performed her play Ring of Fire in December. Hostage Wife won Abingdon Theatre's Wolk Award in 2005 and had a staged reading in New York City in October, 2005.

NANCY ALPERT MOWER (Letters)

Freelance writer/editor.  Former Instructor of writing and literature in the English Department of the University of Hawaii and former director of the Conference on Literature and Hawai'i's Children. She has published seven books for children, articles, essays, poetry, and short stories for children and adults.  She is currently working on novels for children.

JENNIFER ROTHSCHILD  (Art)

Jennifer studied art in California on special scholarships at Chionard Art Institute in Los Angeles and the Art Center of Design in Pasadena. Her art work has developed from a foundation in watercolors and acrylic painting to include mixed media sculptures, built with metal cloth and canvas, and wood carving, using thick canteen gourds.

She has designed stamps for the National Easter Seals, cover designs for various publications, and with a partner, she currently designs hand-painted tile murals for private and commercial spaces.

She was president of the Association of Hawaii Artists from 1999 to 2001, and has been serving as show chair for the past several years. Most recently, she has had two one-woman art shows in Honolulu.

PAMELA ROTNER SAKAMOTO (Letters)

Historian, museum consultant, and author of Japanese Diplomats and Jewish Refugees: A World War II Dilemma. Pam is now writing Setting Sun: The Odyssey of a Japanese American Soldier. She holds a Ph.D. in international relations (The Fletcher School) and lived in Japan for 17 years before moving to Honolulu.

SUSAN SCOTT (Letters)

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Susan Scott shares her marine biology experiences in a weekly column, "Oceanwatch", published each Friday in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.   She has written 6 books about Hawaii's plants and animals and is currently working on a novel.

ELIZABETH DAVIS TRAIN (Art)

Fiber artist (M.F.A. University of Hawaii), working in paper making, batik, weaving & mixed media. Museum educator at the Contemporary Museum.

Liz teaches classes in paper making & batik to students of all ages at Iolani School, Temari, and the Artists in Schools program. Hawaii Craftsmen Board member and long time chairperson of Fiber Hawai`i juried exhibits.

DEE VAN DYKE (Art)

Dee Van Dyke is a fiber and clay artist who graduated from Cornell University with a BFA in sculpture. Currently, she is focusing on the Raku method of clay firing and experimenting with multi-media work. She is an active member of the Hawaii Craftsmen, the Hawaii Handweavers’ Hui and the Windward Artist Guild.

Dee came to Hawaii in 1957, straight out of college, and taught at Punahou School within five decades. At seventy-six, she is the eldest of five children, mother of three, Ama to five, and “gran great” of three.

Dee is the recipient of the 2011 Gloria Foss Award for Art and the Jean Williams Handweavers’ Award in 2011. She attends monthly Writing Retreats at Windward Community College and has two poems published in the 30th anniversary edition of Rainbird.

DARLENE E. WEINGARD (Art & Letters)

Darlene E. Weingand, PhD is Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. In that role, she published more than a dozen books and numerous journal articles.

She has been an internationally-recognized speaker and has taught and delivered workshops in many countries. When she retired and moved to Hawaii in 1999, she served as Adjunct and Affiliate Professor for six years at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.

"Footsteps of Buddha" 12 x 16

As an artist, her earliest efforts were in pastel. She then moved into using oils and eventually tired of both the odors and the clean-up! Watercolor became her next love and provided a real challenge since the technique is so different from using oils.

She eventually revisited the oils approach, but found clean-up easier with acrylics, and experimented once again with pastels. Watercolor continues to be her primary medium and she enjoys participating in shows, both juried and non-juried. The two paintings featured here appeared in the Hawai’i Watercolor Society Open Show 2010. She paints under the name “Kalene.”

"Bora Bora Checkerscape"  12 x 16

Darlene and her husband, Roger Couture, have a blended family with six children and ten grandchildren scattered in Wisconsin, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina and Germany. Both are docents at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and enjoy cruising the world.

RIKE WEISS (Letters)

Rike Weiss is a German native who came to Hawai`i to get married. She has stayed to raise her family in her home of choice. English is Rike's second language, and she did not start writing until a few years ago. She has been honored for her fiction and memoir writing with awards from NLAPW and the O`ahu Arts Center.

VERA S. WILLIAMS (Letters)

Writer, producer, director of award-winning educational films and videos. Author of WASPs: Women's Airforce Service Pilots and WACs: Women's Army Corps. Currently working on two screen plays.

DOROTHY WINSLOW WRIGHT (Letters)

Internationally published poet and writer whose work has appeared in a variety of mainland publications, such as Blue Unicorn, The Writer and Chesapeake Bay Magazine . Locally, Dorothy is a columnist for East Oahu Sun.

PATRICIA WOOD (Letters)

Patricia Wood was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She has served in the US Army, worked as a Medical Technologist, been a horseback-riding instructor, and taught in a public high school working with high-risk students.

Patricia is an avid SCUBA diver, has assisted with shark research, and crewed sailboats across the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to California and currently lives on a sailboat on Oahu. Her PhD work at the University of Hawaii, focused on disability and diversity.

Lottery, her debut novel published in 2007, is translated into over 20 languages and was short listed for the 2008 UK Orange Prize for Fiction and semifinalist for the 2008 Cabell First Novelist Award in the US. She attended Breadloaf Writers Conference in 2010 and is a regular contributor to the literary magazine The View From Here.

Her next manuscript is with her agent, Dorian Karchmar of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Agency. She is married to Gordon Wood who is an Architect here in Honolulu, and has one son Andrew Kesling who resides in Everett, Washington.

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