All proceeds goes towards a not-for-profit initiative for a traveling exhibition of Native Hawaiian artists

The 808-page publication, ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone Eaters: Native Hawaiian Contemporary Art in Hawaiʻi, 1976–2023, is a landmark resource documenting the exhibition ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone Eaters (2023) and its broader historical and cultural context. 

ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone Eaters, curated by Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick, Josh Tengan, and Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu featured the work of forty Native Hawaiian contemporary artists and creatives, took place from January 22–August 25, 2023, at six exhibition venues across the University of Hawaiʻi System on Oʻahu.

Designed as a historical record and an incomplete sourcebook, the publication gathers textual and visual materials about Hawaiian artists, curators, educators, and their stories of art cultivated over the past half-century through newspaper clippings, full-page reviews, reprinted and newly written essays, artist interviews, and critical reflections that explore the intersections of creative expression, cultural resurgence, and ea. 

This book is published by Pu'uhonua Society, a Native Hawaiian women-led non-profit organization based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Active at the intersections of contemporary art, traditional cultural practices, environmental stewardship, and transformational education, Puʻuhonua Society creates opportunities for Native Hawaiian and Hawaiʻi-based creatives to express themselves and engage with diverse audiences.