14 UH Alumni Featured in New Exhibit at Hawai’i State Art Museum Exhibition explores Fear of the Unknown

Featured image, Atomic Series: Fade Away and Radiate by Russell Sunabe

UH artists explore the ‘Fear of the Unknown’

  • Gaye Chan, BFA University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa, 1979
  • Melissa Chimera, BA Natural Resources Management, University of Hawaiʻi-Manoa
  • Calvin Collins, MFA Drawing/Painting, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa, 2006
  • Nate Ditzler, BFA University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa, 2012
  • Ka-Ning Fong, BFA, MFA University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa
  • Tiana Honda, BA Art University of Hawaiʻi-Hilo, 2019
  • Scott Katano, BFA University of Hawaiʻi-Manoa, 1989
  • Laura Konecne, BFA Sculpture, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa, 2014
  • Meleanna Meyer, MA Educational Foundations, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa
  • Hanae Uechi Mills, BFA Printmaking 1975, MFA Ceramics 1986, University of Hawaiʻi-Manoa
  • Brandon Ng, BFA University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa, 2012
  • Abigail Romanchak, BFA Printmaking, 2000, and MFA Printmaking, 2004, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa
  • Russell Sunabe, MFA University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa
  • Norman Tanaka, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa 1993

In addition, five artworks are by UH System faculty (including former students Gaye Chan, Calvin Collins, and Ka-Ning Fong):

  • Gaye Chan, professor, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa Department of Art and Art History
  • Charles Cohan, professor, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa Department of Art and Art History
  • Calvin Collins, professor, Kapiʻolani Community College Art Department
  • Ka-Ning Fong, lecturer, drawing and painting, University of Hawaiʻi-Manoa Department of Art and Art History
  • Michael Marshall, professor, University of Hawaiʻi-Hilo Art Department

All of the artworks in the exhibit are in the Art in Public Places Collection of the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA).