Johannette Rowley
Honolulu, Hawai‘i

Blue Uhu Tea
earthenware, fish skin
17 x 20 x 15 cm
2005

____Selected exhibitions

  • Commitment to Excellence, Academy Art Center, Honolulu, 2005
  • Johannette Rowley, Vicky Chock and Esther Shimazu, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California, 2004
  • Hawai‘i Craftsmen Annual Statewide Exhibition, Award of Excellence, Academy Art Center, Honolulu, 2003
  • 16th National Juried Art Exhibition, Purchase Award, South Cobb Arts Alliance, Mableton, Georgia, 2003
  • Commitment to Excellence, 1st Place Award-Sculpture, Academy Art Center, Honolulu, 2003
  • Emerging Artists, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, 2003
  • Artists of Hawai‘i, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2001

Born in Seattle in 1953, Johannette Rowley has a BFA, 1999, from the University of Hawai‘i where, in 1999, she was named Outstanding Ceramic Student and in 1998 she received the David H. and Doris C. Crowell Award for Excellence in Figurative Sculpture.

I think a lot about divine order--how events piece together to form a life. Letting go and letting things flow works for the soul and for art. I trust in an inherent goodness in people and the planet to co-exist with grace and harmony.