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2007 CELEBRATION OF RANCH’S 160TH CONCLUDES WITH TREE LIGHTING AND STUDENT ART SHOW

Commemorating Parker Ranch’s 160th Anniversary, the final art show for 2007 at the Parker Ranch Historic Homes’ Puuopelu Gallery will be a display of works by students from two of the Ranch’s beneficiary organizations; Parker School and Hawaii Preparatory Academy (HPA).

Representing HPA’s Middle School, under the guidance of art teacher Jane Taylor, will be sixth and eighth graders showing watercolor landscapes, florals, and non-representational paintings from their first quarter of work. Parker School’s exhibit pieces will be a sampling of the Middle School’s two-dimensional art class and the high school’s drawing and painting art classes, led by instructor Wendi Roehrig.

The month-long display debuts Friday, November 30 with the lighting of the enormous Cook Island Pine at 6:00 p.m. for the holidays as Parker Ranch’s gift to the community. The Historic Home, Puuopelu, and the gallery will be open to the public that evening and the art will remain on display throughout December.

Essence by Paula Ricon, HPA 8th grade

Tsukasa Akai’s landscape of a person tying a shoe lace employs the “open wash style,” giving a sparkle of brightness to the work of this HPA 8th Grader.

Spencer Haight, a Parker School 9th Grader, painted one of his favorite places, the Waimea Skate Park, using an Acrylic medium.

Parker School 8th Grader Austen Rawle formed hundreds of bits of paper in to this mosaic he calls "Modigliani Mosiaic."

“The Rose” is a painting by HPA 8th Grader Samanatha Cole-Johnson. It is painted in an "open wash" style that allows a stencil-like look. The painting required careful observation and intricate, slow, drawing.