Opening Reception: Friday, March 20 / 5-7pm
Juror Walkthrough: Friday, March 20 / 4-5pm
Join us for a beautiful evening at Hui No‘eau as we open the 2026 Solo Artist Exhibition, featuring concurrent solo shows by Maui artist Jane Mount and O‘ahu-based Michelle Schwengel-Regala. Selected through a statewide open call, the two artists present new bodies of work in the Hui’s adjoining gallery spaces as part of this special exhibition series. Celebrate the opening with us on Friday, March 20 from 5–7pm, and experience the exhibition on view March 20 – May 15, 2026 at Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center in Makawao.
ABOUT THE SHOW
Maui artist Jane Mount and O‘ahu-based Michelle Schwengel-Regala will present two concurrent solo exhibits in the Hui's adjoining gallery spaces as part of the 2026 Solo Artist Exhibition. Hui No‘eau’s Solo Artist Exhibition series provides two artists with the unique opportunity to be involved in all facets of exhibition planning and installation. It challenges artists to envision and produce an innovative and cohesive body of work to be shown in a professional gallery setting. Through an open call to artists across the state, Mount & Schwengel-Regala were selected as the two artists to present their solo shows in this upcoming exhibition.
Jane Mount presents Particles, a series of textile collages exploring how we are all part of the universe and connected within it, and yet we only experience what our current tools allow us to, and we understand very little. She is fascinated by all our attempts to explain the world–both the science we work out and the myths we create–in order to keep going in it.
O‘ahu-based scientist/artist Michelle Schwengel-Regala will present In/Finite Loop — a mixed-media exhibition drawing upon multiple aspects of her training and interests while looking to the future. During college in Wisconsin, she learned about ‘alalā (Hawaiian crow) as an extinct-in-the-wild species, and vowed to work toward their recovery efforts. This and other species are depicted as fiber sculptures and metalpoint illustrations, encouraging us to support conservation efforts to stabilize these populations and their habitats.
This exhibition is supported in part by the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority Community Enrichment Program.