#Schaefer International Gallery

Maui Arts & Cultural Center presents THREE DECADES in Schaefer International Gallery, an exhibition exploring the unique ways that the MACC has come into being as a home for a spectrum of visual and performing arts expression over thirty years. The exhibition runs from April 15 through June 13. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.

Maui Arts & Cultural Center has announced the winners of the Ruth Freedman People’s Choice Award and Gene Freedman Artists’ Choice Award for Schaefer Portrait Challenge 2025.

Maui artist Challys Pascual has won the Jurors’ Choice Award for the Schaefer Portrait Challenge 2025 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.

A signature of Maui Arts and Cultural Center, the Schaefer Portrait Challenge, has been held as a triennial since 2003. This year’s challenge will mark the eighth iteration of this statewide juried exhibition, which presents the unique diversity of the people of the Hawaiian Islands through explorations in portraiture.

A new exhibit will be on display at the Schaefer International Gallery from Nov. 12 through Dec. 28, 2024.

Maui Arts & Cultural Center has announced the third iteration of its new program series, ACTIVATIONS: After Hours at the Gallery.

The annual ArT=Mixx event, a fusion of performing and visual arts, takes place on Saturday, Nov. 16, from 7 to 11 p.m. in the Maui Arts and Cultural Center’s Yokouchi Pavilion and A&B Amphitheater.

Maui Arts & Cultural Center presents Altered Earth in Schaefer International Gallery, an invitational exhibition featuring ten contemporary artists whose work explores the medium of clay and earth-derived materials through a diverse breadth of processes. The invited artists are Clayton Amemiya, Jake Boggs, Jisoo Boggs, Rachelle Dang, Roberta Griffith, Codie M. King, David Kuraoka, Jenna Macy, Sarah Metz, and Brad Evan Taylor. The exhibition runs from Aug. 27 through Oct. 19. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.

Maui Arts & Cultural Center has announced the second iteration of its new program series, ACTIVATIONS: After Hours at the Gallery, from 5 to 9 p.m. Aug. 1.

Applications are open for artists 18 years and older, who are residents of the state of Hawai‘i, and want to enter portraits into a statewide juried art exhibition, a signature exhibition of Schaefer International Gallery at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center (MACC), that occurs once every three years.

Maui Arts & Cultural Center presents FOCUS in Schaefer International Gallery, a group exhibition featuring the work of seven contemporary Japanese photographers who go by the collective name Photography? End? The artists include Yuji Hamada, Ken Kitano, Miki Nitadori, Yuki Onodera, Naruki Oshima, Risaku Suzuki, and Kazuyoshi Usui. Their respective avenues of work look at the potentiality of photography in a rapidly evolving digital age, with a diverse range of approaches in material innovation. The exhibition runs from June 15 through Aug. 7. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.

The Maui Arts & Cultural Center is bringing back its summer visual arts education program, Young Artmakers, at Schaefer International Gallery.

The “Max Ernst: Surreal Mindscapes & Characters” exhibit in the Schaefer International Gallery opened April 9 and runs through June 1, 2024. The gallery remains open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. In addition, the Gallery has announced a free exhibit event on May 30.

The Maui Arts & Cultural Center (MACC) is opening a new exhibition that showcases work of one of the most significant artists to contribute to the movements of Dada and Surrealism in the development of modern art in the past century, Max Ernst.

The Maui Arts & Cultural Center hosts a panel discussion on Saturday, March 16 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at Morgado Hall, marking the close of the Sense of Place/Place of Sense exhibit.

On Maui coming up within a week, there are free concerts by Island Style songwriter John Cruz, The Voice finalist Jason Arcilla, and the Hawaiʻi Youth Symphony with Amy Hānaiali’i. Also, the touring Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble performs. Check out Maui Now’s top 20 list here.

This week on Maui, there’s major tribute concerts to Jimmy Buffet with Jake Shimabukuro and songwriter Mac McAnnaly, and a Willie K Tribute by Makana. There’s also events celebrating Mardi Gras, Valentines Day, Chinese New Year and a football viewing for the weekend.

The Maui Arts & Cultural Center presents a free screening for the Maui community of the documentary, Bon-Uta in the McCoy Studio Theater Sunday, Jan. 28 at 3 p.m. The event is free to the public but pre-registration online only at MauiArts.org is required beginning at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 9.

For entertainment this week on Maui, there’s the Maui Veterans Day Invitational Kayak Clash, the 21st Annual Falsetto Contest, a free performance by The Voice contestant Jason Arcilla, debuts of Makana’s song “Lahainalalo,” and a recital by classical pianist Mahana Teave as part of a Wildfire Benefit Concert Series.

Maui Arts & Cultural Center presents concurrent retrospective exhibitions of two prominent Honolulu-based artists, Marcia Morse and George Woollard, tracing each artist’s path by highlighting notable bodies of work throughout different phases of their respective five-decade careers.