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Since 2001, TCC has produced many exciting art projects with Shane Eagleton. We launched the program in February 2001 with an art exhibit, In Reverence of the Ancestral Feminine, in the Presidio of San Francisco.
See a review of the show.
Our collaboration with Shane began in the Spring of 1997 with the Kohola Project, a multicultural, interfaith project focused on cross-cultural healing and building bridges between Pacific Islanders and Native Americans, starting with honoring the local Ohlone California Indians by gifting them with a large, cedar healing pole carved by Shane Eagleton.
Feeling the pull of his Pacific Islander roots and wanting to return to the beautiful islands, waters, and cultures of Polynesia, in the fall of 2001, Shane relocated from San Francisco to Oahu, Hawaii where he started teaching wood carving at the University of Hawaii - Windward Campus. As Shane said, “I wanted to re-immerse myself in the Pacific to be closer to my Polynesian heritage and help protect and restore the trees. For years I have been working with at-risk youth in the mainland and I knew it was time to give something back to the youth of the islands and re-teach them how to give downed trees new life by carving them into art and cultural items.”
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The Cultural Conservancy honors indigenous artists through our Artist-In-Residence Program (AIR), formally started in 2001 with Polynesian wood carver and environmental artist Shane Eagleton After years of collaborating on environmental and indigenous arts projects, The Cultural Conservancy formalized our Artist-In-Residence Program (AIR).
As part of TCC's on-going collaboration with the Bioneers' Conference, over the past four years, we have worked with Shane to supply beautifully carved wooden animal art pieces for the stage of the Bioneers' Conference.
After the wood carvings have helped to create sacred space for the Bioneers’ visionary speakers for the three day conference, they are auctioned off as a fundraiser for TCC and the Bioneers Conference. Additionally, from 1999 – 2001, Shane created the Bioneers Awards out of recycled wood for such visionary activists as Fritjof Capra, Alice Walker, David Suzuki, Terry Tempest William, Paul Stamets, and others.
Look for the stunning new art work by Shane for the 2003 conference at the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael, CA. All of the pieces will be made of recycled Hawaiian hardwoods and will be available for purchase.
See some of the Bioneers stage art:
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Having worked with many Native American, Pacific Islanders, and other indigenous communities on the mainland, Shane will always have a special connection with North America and likes traveling the bridge across the Pacific, cross-pollinating his community work through art, environmental messages, and cultural celebrations.
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