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Participants (By invitation only)PIKO organizers will invite one hundred indigenous visual artists from the Pacific Rim and Southwest America, for the purpose of making visual art and creating networks with each other. The invited participating visual artists will be American Indian tribes from Alaska, the Yukon, the Pacific Northwest as well as from the American Southwest, native Hawaiians, Samoans, Guam and from Micronesia, Canada, Society Islands, Aotearoa, Australia, New Caledonia, Tonga and the Cook Islands. Once the one hundred invited artists have reached the Island of Hawai'i, they will be hosted by the PIKO organizers during their stay with lodging, prepared daily meals and transportation to allow for a week of intense art-making and exchange. The PIKO Steering Committee will select the invited participating artists based on artistic skill, experience and potential. Lead artists will be chosen from the native Hawaiian art community to oversee each of the disciplines for the gathering The committee will make efforts to balance established and emerging artists, and traditional and contemporary artists in all art forms. Based on experiences of the previous gathering and utilizing the expertise of former organizers, the 2007 PIKO gatheringproject under the direction of the PIKO steering committee and the Keomailani Hanapi Foundation (KHF), will work to create a gatheringand program site that nourishes cooperative art-making for invited artists and provide venues to bridge that experience with the larger public. The 2007 PIKO gatheringwill bring a new level of awareness, increased visibility, accessibility and importance to native Hawaiian art and the promotion of economic well being in native American and Pacific rim indigenous communities by embracing other indigenous art forms.
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