HBTV Presents: Pow Wow Hawaii 2011 Part I

In an idea that came to fruition in the beginning of 2010 in Hong Kong, POW WOW was created as an exhibition of creative talents which stressed more so the background and development of art. As opposed to the often seen focus on the finished product, POW WOW set forth in giving the public access to artists in their element as they went to work on their respective pieces. In this series, we take a look at POW WOW 2011 which took place in founder Jasper Wong’s native Hawai’i and the comprehensive process that surrounded the event. While Hawai’i has had its fair share of creative output, POW WOW has represented the island’s most concentrated effort to help push and build the local artistic community. A Kickstarter page has recently been started in anticipation of next year’s 2012 event, and donations can be made at kickstarter.com/​projects/​jasperwong/​pow-wow-hawaii-2012.

We bring you Part 1 of our series on POW WOW Hawai’i 2011 which took place earlier this year in February. The multi-day event offered a number of sights and sounds as an international group of artists each went about creating their artwork amidst an open environment.

Source: HypeBeast 

HBTV (HypeBeast Television) brings to the table Pow Wow Hawaii and their work with international artists that work in and around their studio in Hawaii. In the beginning of the video, it introduce's the founder of Pow Wow, Jasper Wong, and wanted to have his vision developed in Hong Kong. Stated in the video of how it never worked out in trying to develop in countries such as Shanghai and Beijing, he began working with Pow Wow in his hometown of Hawaii. Halfway through the video, the artist's worked on their individual pieces on a building in Honolulu.

The video shows how young individuals are also getting involved and how they are the future towards art. 123 Klan from Montreal, Canada is a family who gets their whole intermediate family involve. The father is influenced by son's drawings, lets him choose out the color schemes and the mother does the same for her daughter. A lot of positive views are swirling in the video especially artist Prime who does what feels is right and artist Ekundayo replies that "when people see this stuff, they get inspired. Art makes the world go round'."