Art At Large

Opportunity to Scale Up

The UH Mānoa Art department offers a number courses in painting. As students advance in the curriculum they often want to do larger works because it offers exciting creative and material challenges. The department's painting studios are used by a number of classes so it is not possible for students to scale up in our communal spaces.

The ART AT LARGE project comes to their rescue because it allows the students a rare opportunity to both scale up as well as test out their ideas and skills to a broad audience far beyond their professors and peers.

Bringing Art to the People

Public art serves an important civic need. It provides spaces for individual expression and public discourse that is not at the service of the market. Additionally, since many people do not regularly visit galleries and museums, art in public space brings art to the people.

Building on a Proud History

Hawai‘i is the first state in the nation to have a “percent for art” law that established a separate, reliable source of revenue to administer an 'Art in Public Places Program'.

The law was established in 1967 and designated one percent of the construction costs of new buildings for the acquisition of works of art, either by commission or purchase. Thanks to this legislation, UH Mānoa has been awarded many amazing artworks, quite a few by internationally renowned artists.

Selected examples include:

• Bachman Hall mural by Jean Charlot
• Law School path sculpture by George Segal
• Health Center sculpture by Robert Stackhouse
• Architecture Building Light Sculpture by James Carpenter