The Art of Micronesia
Feldman, Jerald; Rubinstein, Don H. (1986). The Art of Micronesia. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Art Gallery.
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Abstract: The designation of The Art of Micronesia as an inaugural event and the opening of the exhibition honoring my inauguration as the tenth president of the University of Hawaii have strong symbolic significance in at least two respects. First, it has to do with the importance of the arts and the humanities. In this era of high tech and rapid movement in technology and science, we can easily lose track of who we are, where we have come from and where we might be going, and what is really within us. Art allows us to express our humanity and permits us never to forget that all of us together make up a world of human beings and a civilization that must be maintained. A second symbolic implication of the opening of The Art of f\/ficronesia has to do with the Pacific. This is truly the Era of the Pacific" where the Pacific Ocean is no longer the dividing ground but the meeting place for the nations of the world. We have brothers and sisters and neighbors throughout Micronesia with whom we share many customs and much history, language and beliefs. Coming together through the arts helps create the sense of family, a Pacific family, which is so important to the "Era of the Pacific." We must not lose track of the fact that although there are many minerals and resources in the oceans and that there will be aqua-farming and ocean mining and that each of the Pacific islands may come to have strategic importance militarily, politically and economically, the fundamental underlying essence of the Pacific region is its people. Art helps to bring all of us together and this exemplifies the importance of the symbolic meaning of this exhibition. For these two very strong reasons, it is an honor that one of the first major exhibitions of Micronesian art should be presented at the University of Hawaii.
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