Honolulu Printmakers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization of

Hawaii Hawaii ( ; ) is an island U.S. state, state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only sta ...

-based

printmaking Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proces ...

artists, that operates a printing studio open to the community. It conducts public exhibitions, lectures, demonstration, workshops, and an outreach program in local intermediate and high schools. The organization holds an annual juried print exhibition. The Honolulu Printmakers was established in 1928 by Charles W. Bartlett,

John Melville Kelly John Melville Kelly (1879–1962) was an American painter and printmaker. Biography He was born in Oakland, California in 1879. He studied art at the San Francisco Art Institute, Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (now the San Francisco Art Inst ...

Huc-Mazelet Luquiens Huc-Mazelet Luquiens (1881–1961) was an American printmaker, painter and art educator who was born June 30, 1881, in Massachusetts to Jules Luquiens a French-speaking Swiss and Emma Clark who was born in Ohio. Life He graduated from Yale Un ...

and

Alexander Samuel MacLeod Alexander Samuel MacLeod (1888–1956) was a painter and printmaker. He was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada on April 12, 1888. Biography MacLeod studied at McGill University. After moving to San Francisco, he continued his artistic train ...

. It has developed the tradition of the “gift print”, a print commissioned for sale as a fundraiser at the organization’s exhibitions. The 75th anniversary of the organization was celebrated with a retrospective exhibition at the

Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, Hawaii. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke. It has one of the largest single co ...

and an accompanying catalogue, ''A Tradition of Gift Prints''.Kam, Nadine, Communal Artists, Honolulu Printmakers has offered camaraderie to artists for 75 years, in ''Honolulu Star-Bulletin'', March 16, 2003.

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