{"id":32099,"date":"2015-02-26T09:33:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T19:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=32099"},"modified":"2021-09-29T14:12:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T00:12:50","slug":"art-exhibit-brings-albert-saijo-poetry-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/26\/art-exhibit-brings-albert-saijo-poetry-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Art exhibit brings Albert Saijo poetry to life"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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DARK AGE, graphite on paper. Mayuko Ono Gray, Houston, TX<\/abbr>. 2014. (Used with permission)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Department of Art<\/a> at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> presents “Poetry Scores Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>: LOOK LIKE WHAT IT MEANS,” featuring an international cast of 29 artists creating artwork in response to poet Albert Saijo<\/a>. The exhibit is on display through April 15, in the 3rd floor Campus Center Gallery.<\/p>\n

Albert Fairchild Saijo, a prescient California-born Japanese-American writer, moved to Volcano, Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> in early 1990 to live and write, largely off the grid and out of the limelight. Saijo collaborated with Jack Kerouac and Lew Welch to co-author a book of haiku, Trip Trap<\/em><\/a> (1972). He also wrote an early guide to eco-friendly hiking, The Backpacker<\/em><\/a> (1977). The first substantial collection of his poetry, Outspeaks: A Rhapsody<\/em><\/a>, was published by Bamboo Ridge Press in 1997.<\/p>\n

“Poetry Scores Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>” features visual responses to his poems posthumously published in Bamboo Ridge Press<\/a> in 2012. The exhibit is created in partnership with Poetry Scores<\/a>, an all-volunteer international arts organization based in St. Louis, Missouri, that translates poetry into other media.<\/p>\n

Gallery info<\/h2>\n

The Â鶹´«Ã½Hilo Campus Center Gallery is open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, but closed on holidays.<\/aabbr><\/p>\n

Exhibit symposium<\/h2>\n

The art department will host a two-day symposium in March celebrating the exhibition and poet Saijo on March 11 and 12, 2–3:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Gallery. The symposium features UH<\/abbr> Hilo and visiting faculty from the fields of philosophy, art, art criticism, publishing and English<\/p>\n

“The Campus Center gallery exhibition provides exceptional opportunity for extended international collaboration between visual artists and humanities scholars,” says Michael Marshall<\/strong>, professor of art and chair of the department.<\/p>\n

Symposium presenters will include:<\/p>\n