Specific to group or collaborative Mosaic Murals,™ Naiʻa documents the process to highlight how the purpose of the mural is achieved, and the impact upon participants in ways that extend beyond the “coloring event.”

Hanai ʻai o Haumea

The following is an excerpts from The Office of Hawaiian Affairs online article. Please visit their website to view entire story.

THE MOSAIC MURAL COLLABORATION with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hoʻomaikaʻi LLC, and Salted Logic created the cover and internal visuals of Haumea honors the role and legacy of wāhine through original artwork. This mosaic mural was conducted and facilitated by kanaka ʻōiwi artist Naiʻa Lewis. For 20 years, Naiʻa Lewis has worked with people and communities to address pressing personal and social issues and thrive. She uses creative strategies to successfully engage, empower, and express the voices of vulnerable, marginalized, and disenfranchised, particularly those of women, indigenous peoples, and minorities. She blends contemporary expressionism with indigenous identity and belief systems through multiple media. Her work has been invited to show at artistic events and galleries from Manhattan to Honolulu, including the recent CTRL+ALT Culture Lab on Imagined Futures series, curated by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and Ford Foundation. By her philosophy, “Inspiration is birthed in the soul but only transforms our world when we manifest its potential through a creative process.”

Mana Kiaʻi

A creative approach to supporting the development of a Code of Conduct for Marine Conservation, this case study is an example of a group Mosaic Mural process facilitated to enhance the methods used to build new conservation initiatives. The group mural was facilitated during a workshop in support of continuing the conversation on a code of conduct for marine conservation, and its title is Mana Kiaʻi, which means guardian mana or power - that which guards over, and this is what we ultimately hope a code of conduct will provide to a community.

Kaʻahumanu

KAʻAHUMANU

As a means to honor Kaʻahumanu, one of Hawaiʻi's most provocative Aliʻi (chiefs), the Hana Chapter of Ahahui o Kaʻahumanu, a society dedicated to perpetuating her memory, commissioned a Mosaic Mural to be created on her behalf and timed to mark the anniversary of her birth, which falls on the 17th of March,