Children’s Art Brightens Hekili Site
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Through a partnership between a public school and Kaneohe Ranch management and its Harold K.L. Castle Foundation, two series of art works have been created for a unique exhibition in Kailua town.
Produced by the talented second- and fourth-grade students at Kailua Elementary School under the direction of Page Chang, the works were unveiled at a private showing last month and will be on view for the public beginning this week. The second-graders painted eight 4-by-4-foot wooden panels that will go up at Kaneohe Ranch’s 151 Hekili St. construction site. Titled He Ola I Ka Wai, the panels depict the cycle of water and how it affects Kailua’s various habitats.
“The beautiful panels will be on the construction fence,” said Marcia Murakami, property manager for Kaneohe Ranch. “They’re huge panels on a chain-link fence, so we’re crossing our fingers.”
To preserve and safeguard the art work, which are hand-painted batik prints, each panel has been laminated and also digitally copied. As Murakami said,“If they don’t survive the fence, we’ll at least have images of them.”
The art display will remain on view at the construction site until the building is completed in summer 2009. After that, Murakami said there is a possibility of putting the panels in one of the building’s community meeting rooms.
The fourth-graders art is a series of five 4-by-4-foot panels that depict scenes from Kailua’s rich history, such as Kawainui marsh. These are on permanent display at the Castle foundation office, 146 Hekili St.
“The cool thing is,” Murakami added, ‘both series of artwork are right across the street from each other.”
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