Pow! Wow! Hawaii pops up at T Galleria

Photos courtesy T Galleria
A Pow! Wow! Hawaii popup shop is front and center at T Galleria in Waikiki.

T Galleria has partnered with Pow! Wow! Hawaii to bring urban Kakaako’s street vibe to Waikiki with pop-ups featuring fashion and art. Local designers, curated by Pow! Wow! Hawaii, are featuring limited-edition products through Saturday.

The centerpiece of the event is a retrofitted food truck as a pop-up store. Local brands being featured throughout the ground-floor entry are Big Bad Wolf, Roberta Oaks, Fitted, Scott Hawaii, Knockaround, and In4mation.

There is also a pop-up cafe featuring coffee and espresso from Brue Bar, as well as baked goods from Agnes Bake Shop.

From 7 to 8 p.m. Feb. 24, visitors are invited to meet Steven Scott, owner of Scott slippers, and from 7 to 8 p.m. Feb. 28, meet Jeff Gress, operations director of Pow! Wow! Hawaii.

The display is open from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. daily on the first-floor walkway of T Galleria, 330 Royal Hawaiian Avenue.

Pow! Wow! artists will be adding their work to this food truck-turned-popup-store during the event.

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Take your pick of T-shirts designed by In4mation and other featured local designers.

More popup space.

Don’t forget the keiki while shopping.

A detail of Big Bad Wolf’s Dance Party tee.

POW WOW: White knights for the arts at 'Blank Canvas'

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Blank Canvas committee member Anna Meng, right, with, from left, Reg Worthley, Eve Shere, Kathy Inouye and Myles Inouye.

Hundreds were willing to flout the old fashion rule about never wearing white after Labor Day in support of POW WOW Hawaii's "Blank Canvas" fundraiser that took place Oct. 6 at The Warehouse, at 683 Auahi St.

The evening of art and cuisine included food served up by Mark Noguchi, Whole Foods Market, Whole Ox's Robert McGee, Daniel Anthony, and others, as guests dressed in white dropped off white T-shirts to be worked on by artists Matt and Roxy Ortiz, Kamea Hadar, Jeffrey Gress, Jasper Wong and Cade Roster.

POW WOW Hawaii is a group of contemporary artists committed to community enrichment through art outreach programs. You may have driven past the many Kaka'ako murals painted by artists from all over the world, organized by POW WOW members.

The organization has also partnered with likeminded 808 Urban to go into schools as advocates of art as expression, speaking to youths at risk because they have no outlet for their energy and creativity.

I wasnn't able to stay long, and missed the evening's highlight speed-painting event, which had the artist's creating a giant mural of Marilyn Monroe's face on the building's back wall. We didn't know what they would be creating, and MM made an intriguing choice!

For more information, visit http://powwowhawaii.com

Mike Hogan with his white accessory, Kea.

Artists Matt and Roxy Ortiz at work on event tees.

Anne Namba took a break from her fashion biz to worked on the Blank Canvas committee in support of her nephew, artist Kamea Hadar.

Carole Hayashino, president and executive director of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i, said she typically dresses in black, and had to pull together every white piece she owns just for the event. I told her she should wear white more often.

Cade Roster works behind a display of one of his finished shirts.