Bill Braden's Work - Public Commissions and Displays                                        (Page 3 of 5)

Hanauma Bay Visitor Center:

This painting is the entrance feature to one of Hawaii’s most scenic and popular attractions, Hanauma Bay. The display designer of the education center, Mr. Richard Duggan, specified this view of the bay from the rim, thus its title “E Komo Mai,” welcome.

The designer specified a reproduction canvas for the site because of the millions of visitors who walk past the zig zag screen for which this image was created. The image was split into four panels to go on the zig sides. The zag sides tell the visitors about the environmentally correct protocols to obey while visiting this special marine sanctuary.

The original oil painting has been on display at the Honolulu Academy of Arts as well as other locations. It is available for sale for $50,000 (an officially commissioned image - a historical artifact?)

 

 

Kokua Poster:

The Kokua Foundation, founded by rock star Jack Johnson and his wife Kim, is a non profit organization that advocates and promotes preserving the environment in Hawaii schools, by teaching about recycling, growing organic foods, etc. The foundation puts on a music and enviro-friendly festival each year to raise funds as well as to spread their message.

For the second annual Kokua Festival in 2005, they commissioned this painting of Waikiki circa 1870, after they viewed a painting with a similar theme in the lobby of Waikiki Banyan. Kim Johnson, an artist herself, designed the image so that the festival text could fit on the right side of the poster.

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