Call Detail
Call Overview
Application Closed
Entry Fee (Entry Fee): $25.00
Media Fee(Media Fee): $5.00
Work Sample Requirements
Images | Minimum:Min. 0, Maximum:Max. 10
Audio | Minimum:Min. 0, Maximum:Max. 6
Video | Minimum:Min. 0, Maximum:Max. 6
Total Samples | Minimum:Min. 1, Maximum:Max. 20
Eligibility: International
State: Hawaii
Call Description
Every landscape holds a story, every place is more than the ground we stand upon. Whether it’s a childhood fishing spot, a trail used for generations, or a view that feels like home, these places carry meaning that art can make visible. This place has also given birth to many traditions that respond to life in these islands over the last thousand years. The materials and techniques born of this land communicate to us and future generations through the past.
Storied Ground invites artists to share the emotional, historical, and sensory connections they hold with specific sites across Hawaiʻi and traditions born of this place. Perhaps your practice is informed by or reinterprets local materials, motifs, and stories for a contemporary moment. Or maybe your artistry captures the essence of your experience of this place through realism or abstraction. Our legacy can be reflected by how each generation finds new ways to connect with the land, these traditions, and one another.
Storied Ground acknowledges the many layers that make up the island’s identity: natural, cultural, and emotional. The resulting exhibition will create a shared portrait of Hawaiʻi as experienced by those who live and create within it, or have been inspired by it. Here is a landscape of stories, seen through many eyes and expressed in many ways. Through painting, photography, sculpture, textiles, or digital work, artists are encouraged to express how place itself becomes both subject and storyteller. This exhibition honors the idea that understanding a place begins with attention -- to detail, to memory, to the small things that reveal the larger story.
About the Juror:
Public Art Specialist Kelly White has over 25 years of experience as an arts administrator and advocate for community development programs. A Wailuku-based artist, writer and collaborator specializing in the advancement of arts-based programs that leverage social interaction and strengthen neighborhoods, she has worked with a wide range of artists and organizations including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Brooklyn Arts Council, National Guild for Community Arts Education, Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center and Adaptations Dance Theater. White founded Maui Public Art Corps and is currently the Public Art Manager for the County of Maui.
Application Requirements
Submission Fee
$25 for first sample
$5 for each additional media sample
Artists will still be responsible for shipping their artwork to and from Kahilu. (See Shipping info below)
Eligibility:
Artists must be 18 years of age or older to submit artwork.
Important Dates:
Deadline for artwork submissions: Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM HST
Artists notifications will be made via email by Monday, December 22, 2025
Shipped artwork must be received by Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Artwork can be dropped off in person Saturday, January 3; Monday, January 5; or Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 17, 2026 from 5-7pm
Artwork must arrive to Kahilu Exhibits ready for installation with appropriate hanging hardware and professional presentation.
Eligibility Criteria
Artists 18 years of age and older are welcome to submit artwork for review.
