6:30 p.m. -"Feathered Treasures: Hawai'i's Forest Birds Past, Present and Future" by Jack Jeffrey
Invite your friends and family to this FREE evening of art, entertainment, and learning!
Samadhi Hawai'i
Kupa'aina
Jack Jeffrey
Live music by Kupa'aina Silk aerial dance performance by Samadhi Hawai'i Free lecture by wildlife photographer and biologist Jack Jeffrey Presentation by Rick Barboza of Hui Ku Maoli Ola native Hawaiian plant nursery Community Market Conservation posters and art exhibits
NOAA National Weather Service NOAA Pacific Services Center NOAA Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument
O'ahu Army Natural Resources Program
O'ahu RC&D Office of Hawaiian Affairs Pacific GPS Pacific Island Network Reef Check Hawai'i Resource Mapping Hawai'i LLC RevoluSun Save Our Coast-Save Our Planet SWCA Environmental Consultants The Humane Society of the United States The Nature Conservancy The Trust for Public Land USDA Forest Service USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement USGS Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center University of Hawai'i at Hilo Pacific Internship Programs for Exploring Science University of Hawai'i Press Vetiver Systems Hawai'i LLC Wiliwili Hawaiian Plants
Agricultural Leadership Foundation of Hawai'i Ameriprise Financial Argosy University DLNR Division of Aquatic Resources DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc
Hach Hydromet Hawai'i Coastal Zone Management Program Hawai'i Wetlands Joint Venture Hawaiian Electric Hawaiian Island Solar Honolulu Zoological Society Hui KuMaoli Ola Kamehameha Schools Kaua'i Humane Society Kealopiko LLC Kupu Malama Maunalua Maui Invasive Species Committee National Parks Conservation Association National Tropical Botanical Garden Native Books Inc NOAA Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
NOAA Marine Debris Program NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Pacific Islands Regional Office
Conservation Through Art Exhibit
The Conservation Through Art exhibit aims to provide a venue for conservationist affiliated with HCA partner organizations to express through an artistic medium what inspires them to work in conservation. Each display is accompanied by an artist's statement describing the personal meaning of the image or object and how it relates to each individual's commitment to the conservation of the ecosystems, native species, and culture that comprise Hawai'i.
Featured Artists:
Emma Yuen was born in Hilo, Hawai'i. She received a Master of Arts Degree at Stanford University in 2007. Her work has been shown in Hawai'i and California in institutions such as the Sustainable Stanford Exhibition, and she is the recipient of Patsy Mink's State Young at Art Award. She now lives in Honolulu where she works for Hawai'i's Natural Area Reserves System.
Merlin Edmonds was born in Kailua on O'ahu and spent his formative years as a child in Kilauea on the north shore of Kaua'i. Family vacations were spent in Koke'e State Park, hiking the trails under the Koa trees, playing baseball at the Lodge and four wheel driving the back roads. During this time Merlin was continuously in awe of the Hawaiian forest and vowed that he would live in it as an adult. This dream was realized in 2008 when he started working for the National Tropical Botanical Garden at Limahuli doing restoration in the Lower Preserve and camping for up to a week at a time in the remote Upper Preserve killing incipient invasive species. Currently Merlin is beginning to incorporate the endemic qualities of Hawai'i in a way that brings to the forefront the unique beauty of the islands but also the uphill struggle that its ecosystems face. Art for him is a way to show others that Hawai'i's native forests are worth saving and that the history of these islands goes back long before human contact.
Susan Scott is a writer, marine biologist and artist. Since 1987, she has written a weekly column called Oceanwatch for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (now the Star-Advertiser), and is the author of six books about nature in Hawai'i. Over the years, Susan has worked on remote atolls as a volunteer biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. During a beach clean-up on Tern Island in 2003, she became intrigued by the colors, shapes and mystery of the trash pieces she found on the beach, as well as the cigarette lighters she found in albatross nests. She took the pieces home, scrubbed them clean and began to make figures and mosaics of them.
Jack Jeffrey, Big Island photographer and wildlife biologist, will showcase some of his photographs in this exhibit.
Susan Scott is a writer, marine biologist and artist. Since 1987, she has written a weekly column called Oceanwatch for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (now the Star-Advertiser), and is the author of six books about nature in Hawai'i. Over the years, Susan has worked on remote atolls as a volunteer biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. During a beach clean-up on Tern Island in 2003, she 
