Maui Crafts Guild: Happenings

Joan Mercer will be the Featured Artist at the Maui Crafts Guild from July 9 through July 22.  Kula Jungle designs are the original creations of long time Maui artist Joan Mercer.  Her love of gardening and her background in art led her to develop unique creations from the wide variety of ferns, flowers and foliage that grow in her extensive gardens.  She gathers her bountiful harvests, utilizing special techniques to preserve their garden freshness, unique color, and elegance forever.

She creates Hawaiian everlasting leis, window ornaments, necklaces, earrings and mobiles.  Also, new to her collection are framed collages.  Always experimenting and creating, Joan’s flower universe continues to expand and flourish.

An opening reception will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Friday, July 9 where patrons will have an opportunity to meet the artist and discuss her work.  Refreshments will be served.

Jeweler, Wendy Hagedorn, will be the featured artist at the Maui Crafts Guild from May 14 through May 27, 2010.  The exhibition will unveil her new jewelry creations featuring the artist’s renderings acid-etched into copper and and combined with sterling silver.

Meet the artist during an opening reception from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Friday, May 14th.  Festivities will include refreshments and live music!

Potter Jeff Johnson will be the featured artist at the Maui Crafts Guild from April 30 through May 13, 2010.  He creates both functional and decorative ceramic pieces in stoneware and porcelain.  Each piece is unique and individually handmade utilizing the potter’s wheel and hand-built construction using both slabs and extrusions.  Jeff incorporates celadon glazes, sgraffito, applied slip, a variety of colorful glazes and raku firing techniques that reflect Maui’s beautiful island surroundings.

Meet the artist during an opening reception from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Friday, April 30th.  Festivities will include refreshments and live music.

Theme “Maui’s Floral Majesty: Beyond Plumeria”

Braving thorns, swarming mosquitoes, blazing sun, and irate homeowners, Mr. Levine captures a rainbow of color, shape and shadow to present portraits of some of Maui’s unique flowers.

Maui has many overlooked and unique floral treasures.   Some are hidden in plain sight in a neighbor’s yard and others are collected or nurtured in places like upcountry’s Enchanting Floral Gardens.  Mr. Levine is a self-taught fine art photographer who finds as much inspiration from Georgia O’Keefe and Gustav Klimt as he does from the works of other photographers.

Whether it is a hybrid hibiscus in a front yard in Pukalani, the desert rose blooming in Lahaina, or the odd calico plant or corkscrew flowers
growing in the upcountry botanical garden, Stephen has combined both the patience and skill to capture the essence of shape and color for his
floral portraits.

He prints each image as a limited edition.  Each is a giclee print using the highest quality ink and art papers available.

His floral portraits will be featured from April 16-30, 2010 at the Maui Crafts Guild, where his other fine art nature studies are available.

Please join us for an opening reception where you can meet the artist on Friday April 16th from 6:30 – 8:30 PM.  Festivities will include refreshments and live music!  Hope to see you there!

Gyotaku artist Carrie Lee Brady will be the featured artist at the Maui Crafts Guild from March 19th through April 1st, 2010.  Make sure to stop in to see her vibrantly colored and intricately composed selection of original fish and nature prints!

Glass artist Joshua Lee Cox will be the featured artist at the Maui Crafts Guild from March 5 through March 18, 2010.

Meet the artist during an opening reception from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on March 5th.  Festivities will include refreshments and live music.

Sculptor and master goldsmith Barclay Hill will be the featured artist at the Maui Crafts Guild From February 12th through 26th. He will unveil a new series of jewelry for the show!

Meet the artist during an opening reception from 6:30 to 9 p.m. February 12th. Festivities will include refreshments and live music.

Maui jeweler Dianne Anderson will be the featured artist at the Maui Crafts Guild beginning Friday Dec. 4 through Thursday Dec. 17. Meet the artist during an opening reception from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Dec. 11. Festivities will include refreshments and live music.  We hope to see you there!