Hoʻākea Source 2024 Grant Awardees

ʻĀINAVIS

Sean Connelly
2024 Grant Recipient



ʻĀINAVIS, an artist-led project that visualizes Hawai‘i's ʻāina through innovative mapping, integrating social, historical, and environmental data with a focus on its role in intellect and wellbeing. Their next endeavor aims to map historic activism and events across Pae ‘āina Hawai‘i, fostering transformative discussions.

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Sean Connelly (b.1984, Pacific Islander American/Illocano) is an artist from O'ahu, residing and working across Pae 'Āina Hawai'i. Sean's multifaceted practice encompasses sculpture, installation, film, design, and cartography, frequently integrating architectural and experimental methodologies. Their work delves into the interplay with the built environment, intersecting oceanic intellect and futures in contemporary practice, spanning both tangible and theoretical domains. This exploration is informed by cultural, ecological, historical, material, water, food sovereignty, and land justice themes.

Dawn is Hawai‘i-based community development practitioner and poet dedicated to cultural resilience and restoration in her work with communities across Hawai‘i nei.  Her favorite thing is making connections—past, present, future, people, places, and practice.  She calls the Windward side of O‘ahu her home and piko.