Hoʻākea Source 2025 Grant Awardees
Colleen Kimura
Nā Leo o Kapa
Avalon Paradea
OUR JOY iS SACRED
Lani Punani
Babaeng Babae Na
Hercules Goss-Kuehn
The Renkon Project
Noe Tanigawa
I OLA KANALOA
Davianna McGregor & Craig Neff
Kealaʻula
Nani Welch Keliʻihoʻomalu2025 Grant Recipient
Kealaʻula is a project that synthesizes fine-art and ethnography together using photography, film, and sound media to enshrine the living memories of lower Puna within a single, collaborative, creative body of work. Kealaʻula aims to identify and preserve cultural data from the community members and families of lower Puna that remain deeply interwoven and profoundly connected to the ever changing landscape.
Nani Welch Keliʻihoʻomalu is a Native Hawaiian photographer from Waimea, Hawaiʻi. Her work revolves around the documentation of the complexity and nuance of the contemporary Hawaiian experience. Through a combination of analog and digital photography, she recreates the multifaceted and layered histories that she finds herself placed within.