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Title:	Home of the Tigers: McKinley High and Modern Art
Date:	9/28/2024 - 1/12/2025
Address:	The Honolulu Museum of Art, 900 South Beretania Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96814,
Location:	Honolulu, HI
Hours:	Wednesday–Thursday, Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 6pm / Friday: 10am – 9pm
Cost/Cover:	free - $25
Web Page:	https://honolulumuseum.org/exhibitions/home-of-the-tigers-mc ...
Contact Info:	808.532.8700

Details:

Where did you go to high school? In Honolulu as in many cities, this is the first question we ask when meeting someone from the same place. Positioning ourselves in terms of background, identity, and experience, the answer can both mark differences and help us find common ground. The exhibition Home of the Tigers: McKinley High and Modern Art? explores the impact of a single high school on visual art in Hawai?i. It brings together work by seven artists who graduated from McKinley High School in the 1920s to the 1960s and went on to define modernism in Hawai?i, including Satoru Abe (b. 1926), Raymond Han (1931–2017), Ralph Iwamoto (1927–2013), ?Imaikalani Kalahele (b.1950), Keichi Kimura (1914–1988), Robert Kobayashi (1925–2015) and John Chin Young (1909–1997). Foregrounding the importance of art education, the exhibition also presents work by three artists who were their high school teachers, Minnie Fujita (1918–2018), Charles Higa (1933–2012), and Shirley Russell (1886–1985). While each artist was shaped by their different backgrounds and experiences in the art world, Home of the Tigers charts the history of 20th-century artistic movements in Hawai?i and beyond through the lens of their common origin.