MidWeek Honolulu - August 24, 2022

MEET MURPHY
This Pet of the Week likes to keep an eye on what comes into his home. SEE PAGE 7
READY FOR TAKEOFF
‘Iolani School students build a single-seat flight-ready airplane. SEE PAGE 10
Lana Lane Studios: A Place For Artists
FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 24, 2022
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Artist MelonJames at work in his Lana Lane Studios space. MelonJames is also the manager of the artists loft in Kaka‘ako.
ANTHONY CONSILLIO PHOTO
TBY MARIA KANAI
he concept of Lana Lane Studios came to Jasper Wong when he no- ticed many local artists didn’t have a
dedicated space for their work — they were painting, sketching, building and creating out of crammed garages, tiny lanāi and living rooms chaotic with kids and their toys.
In 2012, Wong — the founder and lead di- rector of POW! WOW!, a global nonprofit that organizes art lectures and public exhibi- tions, including the annual mural painting in Kaka‘ako — set out to create a studio space for those artists.
He reached out to Kamehameha Schools, property owner of SALT at Our Kaka‘ako and a POW! WOW! Hawai‘i partner. They told him about an unoccupied warehouse in the area that was housing concrete and cement.
“It was a really raw space with nothing in there and they were able to provide us with a cheaper rent,” says Wong. “I had just had my firstborn daughter so on top of being a dad, I wasn’t sure if I could handle the build-out. Luckily, Jeff Gress, who is also one of my
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