1. Take a self-guided walking tour: Follow the SMALL TOWN * BIG ART virtual map or download the Ho'okama'āina app to get started. |
2. Use the Ho'okama'āina app in your classroom or community group: Within this tool, you will find three walking tours — cultural, historic and public art — with points of interest that offer details and stories compiled by a team of Wailuku champions. Download Ho'okama'āina here. |
3. Host a film night and discussion of proverbs: Hands-on artist workshops and talk-story sessions that once generated shared imagery and physical exchange in a pre-pandemic world have given way to micro documentaries capturing the conversations that build the cumulative artwork. View our film collection here. |
4. Tune in to the podcast: Click to check out the Public Art Podcast where we talk story with the artists, community members, project facilitators, small business owners, supporters and story holders working together to envision Wailuku as a public arts district. |
5. Sign up for e-news: The ST*BA e-Newsletter helps keep you connected with invitations, information and impacts. Please share with a friend who might like to get involved. |
6. Interview a loved one for our StoryCorps archive: StoryCorps allows users to upload pre-recorded interviews to its official archive; the largest born-digital collection of human voices housed at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. View our StoryCorps Archive page HERE. |
7. Get the know the artists we work with through their individual portfolios: As a County initiative that contracts panel-selected artists to create collaborative works of public art with our community, we work with established artists that are well versed in this unique field. |
8. Visit our blog and social media outlets for behind the scenes footage: Get to know us through smalltownbig.org/blog, facebook.com/smalltownbigart, instagram.com/smalltownbigart and vimeo.com/smalltownbigart. |
9. Add your feedback/ comments to each project page: Each public art project undergoes a period of collaborative development where we determine how the public can learn from, contribute to and continue the dialogue that a work of art may inspire. Start here. |
10. Apply: We work with CaFÉ when a new set of opportunities arises. Established artists share their ideas, samples and references regarding a specific project opportunity, and a community panel makes recommendations on the most promising projects for Wailuku. Learn about upcoming application deadlines here. |