PIKO 2007 Gathering of Indigenous Visual Artists (Hawaii)
Location: Waimea, South Kohala, Hawai'i
Dates: June 15 - 22, 2007
The 2007 PIKO Gathering of Indigenous Visual Artists will take place on the Big Island of Hawaii in June 2007. Application materials are now available on the PIKO website. Based on their application materials, 100 artists will be invited and fully hosted at the gathering.
Updated information (21 March 2006):
History
The proposed 2007 PIKO event is the fifth of its kind of international gatherings of indigenous visual artists, following the first in Aotearoa (New Zealand 1995). The first Pacific Northwest America gathering was held at the Longhouse Education and Cultural Center at Evergreen State College, (Olympia, Washington, USA, 2001) and the recent Te Mata gathering was held in Heretaunga Hastings, Aotearoa (New Zealand, January 16 - 22, 2005). In the spirit of its predecessors, PIKO, the navel of the Pacific rim, will be held in Hawai'i. The event will begin on June 15, 2007 and conclude eight days later on June 22.
Participants (By invitation only)
PIKO organizers will invite one hundred indigenous visual artists from the Pacific Rim and Southwest America, for the purpose of making visual art and creating networks with each other. The invited participating visual artists will be American Indian tribes from Alaska, the Yukon, the Pacific Northwest as well as from the American Southwest, native Hawaiians, Samoans, Guam and from Micronesia, Canada, Society Islands, Aotearoa, Australia, New Caledonia, Tonga and the Cook Islands.
Once the one hundred invited artists have reached the Island of Hawai'i, they will be hosted by the PIKO organizers during their stay with lodging, prepared daily meals and transportation to allow for a week of intense art-making and exchange.
The PIKO Steering Committee will select the invited participating artists based on artistic skill, experience and potential. Lead artists will be chosen from the native Hawaiian art community to oversee each of the disciplines for the gathering. The committee will make efforts to balance established and emerging artists, and traditional and contemporary artists in all art forms.
For more information and for an application form visit: PIKO 2007 Indigenous Visual Artists Gathering