This is the first and largest iteration of the multi-site exhibition of Kānaka ʻŌiwi artists
"This exhibition affirms our long-standing acts of creative resistance and persistence...Despite the abundance of our artistic expressions, it has been more than twenty years since a large-scale exhibition of Kanaka ʻŌiwi art was presented within the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) System. Aware of its context, ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone Eaters addresses the exclusion of Kānaka worldviews from academia, specifically within the UH Mānoa Department of Art and Art History, and an overall lack of institutional support for Kānaka art across the Islands.” - Exhibit Curators
