Lau Ke Aloha

Deadline: July 18, 2025, at 11:59 P.M.

As part of our I Mau Ke Aloha benefit dinner on Saturday, July 26, we invite Maui residents to contribute to our Kinolau Community Exhibition honoring native species as kinolau, the many expressions of life, well-being, and vitality in our island ecosystem.

This is a call to all Maui residents who would like to express their aloha for our native species through art. We’re looking for original artwork that reflects one of the following eight native species:

• Ilima (Sida fallax)

• ʻUlu (Artocarpus altilis)

• Koʻoloaʻula (Abutilon menziesii)

• Lama (Diospyros sandwicensis)

• Loulu (Pritchardia)

• Pili (Heteropogon contortus)

Your submission can be any creative form—visual art, poetry, mele (song), ʻōlelo noʻeau (wise saying), legos, clay modeling, magnetic tiles, photograph, comic, leaf etching, etc. —so long as it honors at least one of these species; no profanity or profane images will be accepted. 

Selected pieces will be featured on our website and social media, as well as displayed during the I Mau Ke Aloha benefit dinner on July 26. Participants of the in-person Lau Ke Aloha event on June 25 are encouraged to submit the artwork they create. Deadline for submissions is July, 18, 2025, at 11:59 P.M.

As a further opportunity to support the life-giving power of native species and art on Maui, Mākena Golf & Beach Club will donate $10 ($5 each) to Hawai‘i Land Trust and Lahaina Community Land Trust for every piece of original artwork submitted by July 18, 2025, at 11:59 P.M., with a goal of 300 submissions.