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Gaye Chan
Professor, Chair of Photography Program
office: art building, room 345
phone: 956-5266
email: gchan@hawaii.eduGaye Chan has been the Chair of the Photography Program since 1991. She is the professor for Art 206, 307, 308B, and rotate with other faculty members in teaching BFA (407) and MFA seminars. Chan received her BFA from the University of Hawai'i and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is a conceptual artists who works in photography, installation, electronic media and agitprop. Chan's work is primarily inspired by and made from found images and objects -- mining their potential in making visible the invisible forces at work all around us. She has had exhibitions at Asia Society (New York City), Honolulu Academy of Art (Honolulu), Art in General (New York City), YYZ (Toronto) and The Contemporary Museum (Honolulu).
Chan is also an active participant of DownWind Productions and co-editor of its website http://www.downwindproductions.com. Downwind is a collaborative that examines the impact of colonialism, capitalism, and tourism in Hawai'i. Through agitprop commodities and web media, DownWind explores Waikiki as an actual specific site/sight and a metaphor for countless other places where self-sustaining peoples have been dislocated for profit.
see examples of workGlenn Kawabata
Lecturer
office: art building, room 326
phone: 956-5256
email: gkawabata@gmail.comGlenn Kawabata received his BFA from the University of Hawai‘i at M?noa, and his MFA from the University of New Mexico. He has taught at the University of Hawai‘i since the beginning of 2006. Previously he has held the positions of assistant professor in Photography and New Media at Beloit College, in Wisconsin, and assistant professor in Media and Theatre Arts at Montana State University, in Bozeman, MT. His work has been shown nationally and internationally.
Glenn Kawabata teaches Art 206, 307 and 308B.
Stan Tomita
lecturer
office: art building, room 326
phone: 956-5256
email: stomita@hawaii.eduLecturer Stan Tomita has taught at the University Of Hawai'i since 1988, Honolulu Community College from 1980-88, and the University Of California At Berkeley in 1979. Tomita received his BFA from the University Of Hawai'i in 1972 and has studied with Walter Chappell and Paul Caponigro. He has exhibited at Gallery Wide in Tokyo, Gallery Picture in Osaka, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Art in General and CEPA Gallery in New York, Focus Gallery in San Francisco, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu and the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Artist in Residence include the Iffley Seminar at Oxford, England. His work involve the changing scape of the people and land of Hawai'i. Tomita also collaborates with Karen Kosasa (Assistant Professor of American Studies, UHM) a fellow third generation Japanese settler to Hawai'i. Their installations and site specific projects reflect upon the ways settlers' everyday activities contribute to the problem and invisibility of colonialism in Hawai'i.
Stan Tomita teaches Art 206, 207 and 308C.
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