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* Donkey Mill Art Center’s Main Building 4-7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16 Admission: $12 per family Four storytellers will enchant the audience with modern fairy tales, morality tales, peace stories, historical characterizations and personal tall tales. According to Eric Wolf, from Ohio, Winner of a 2010 National Oracle Award from the National Storytelling Network, “These [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Internationally known sculptor, Virginia King, kicks off the 2011-2012 season of programs offered by the Holualoa Foundation for Arts & Culture. King creates large-scale sculptures that are inspired by the ocean and the geographic isolation of her homeland, New Zealand. She will give a presentation of her art 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept, 15 [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Ceramics artist Amber Aguirre will give a presentation on her work 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8 at the Donkey Mill Art Center. This free and open to the public artist talk will be preceded by an ohana style potluck. Aguirre is a nationally exhibited artist living on Hawaii Island. She is well known [...]

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Spend a Saturday afternoon relaxing in the breezes of the Donkey Mill Art Center’s lawn while slurping homemade somen noodles from a handmade bowl

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MEDIA RELEASE The Holualoa Foundation for Arts and Culture announces the first annual Emerging Artists Scholarship fund raising event 6-9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19 at the Donkey Mill Art Center. Based on a Coney Island carnival-esque theme, this event will include live music by Andrea Lindborg’s Pele’s Passion & Bump City, bar-b-que, refreshments, photo booth [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE The 2011 Ua Makaukau Loa Award will be presented to Marie McDonald at a luncheon noon-2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13 at Donkey Mill Art Center in Holualoa. McDonald has spent 50 years producing the exquisite lei of Hawaii. She is one of Hawaii’s best-known authorities on the subject and author of the definitive [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE The Holualoa Foundation for Arts and Culture announces the receipt of an award from the Laila Twigg-Smith Art Fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation. The proposal, “Making Waves: Art as Social Change,” will bring four exceptional artists to Hawaii. The award is given to non-profit organizations that aim to nurture and promote Hawaii [...]

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Legendary dancer Ken Swift will discuss his career as a B.Boy, dancer, choreographer and performer

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The Hawaii Homegrown Food Network, Breadfruit Institute of the National Tropical Botanical Garden, Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden and Donkey Mill Art Center are presenting the Ho‘oulu ka ‘Ulu – Revitalizing Breadfruit in Hawai‘i Art Contest.

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MEDIA RELEASE The Donkey Mill Art Center annual Adult Student Art Exhibition runs through Oct. 30. This year’s theme is “Pupils’ Perspectives.” A closing reception is scheduled 5-8:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30. In the spirit of the season the Donkey Mill will be hosting a Dead of the Dead celebration to add to the evening [...]

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Jim Skibby, Bob and Nancy Male, members of the Waimea Bonyu Kai Bonsai Club will share a bonsai presentation on Friday, September 10, 2010 from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. at the Donkey Mill Art Center.

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The Holualoa Foundation for Arts and Culture recently announced the appointment of Kate Jacobson as the organization’s Executive Director. Jacobson will oversee all aspects of programs, special events and operations at the Donkey Mill Art Center.

Jacobson brings to the Holualoa Foundation for Arts and Culture years of experience as both a professional artist and a community organizer.

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