Making Art Matter
VIEW OF THE WEST MAUI MOUNTAINS FROM GALLERY/STUDIO LELE
Lahaina, Maui
Studio/Gallery Lele
Located between MiniMart and Island Grocery on the third floor of the Keawe Professional Center
Lele is a gallery space and studio workshop created by Nancy Young in mid 2021 as a personal space to make and exhibit her art, as well as teach and collaborate. The gallery area is 600 square feet with reconfigurable interior walls. The work space is another 250 square feet with infrastructure for a digital media lab. The gallery will feature shows and special events that promote social and environmental causes that MAKE ART MATTER.
To further those goals Nancy researched activist education and wrote a sort of manifesto which you can read by clicking the link below. It is a guide for establishing activist teachers, students, schools using project based, art oriented, STEAM programs that are culturally inclusive and sensitive to Hawaii’s diversity.
Visitors are welcome but call or text before visiting
(808)-205-1389
Art Education
Lele is about art education that promotes cultural, environmental, personal advocacy and activism.
Read our manifesto
Uninstructed Life Drawing. The gallery is a great space for Life Drawing. Uninstructed model sessions are offered weekly.
Keiki Paintouts (outdoor painting sessions). In Conjunction with LAHAINA ARTS GUILD (LAG). Bimonthly for West Maui Students grade 4 - 12.
Keiki Traveling Art Camps. In Conjunction with (LAG). Daily visits to selected sites to draw, paint and learn about culture and science as well as art.
All Maui County Annual Student Art Show. In Conjunction with (LAG).
Internships. High school project based internships and senior project mentoring for students in fine art, graphics and digital media.
Nancy Young-Art
Sweet Light Crude
21 episodes in the era of fossil fuels
Twenty one 20x30 inch drawings which tell the story of a modern day Hi’iaka as she travels with her companion Ganesha, Tutu Kane. Beginning in 1970’s Hawaii they witness change and possibility, disaster and hope.
Original drawings available for exhibit. Also available as a limited edition fold out book printed on fine arts archival paper in two sizes. Profits go towards funding Activist Art Centered Education.
detail Episode 4. Aloha in the era of fossil fuels visitors arrive. The locals sing and dance as they scratch out a living. original:21x30”ink/colored pencils.
Detail Mural 4 Sleeping Buddha along the Dhamma path,one step forward, two steps back
Four Murals
40 feet of ink drawings on paper
Completed between 2016 and 2019, four 10’x4’ murals, ink and acrylic ink on Strathmore 500 roll paper. Prints of full murals or portions available. Originals available for exhibit.
Into the Swamp. Run for your life.
Sleeping beauty at the dump.
Hands up, deep divide. Get over it.
Along the Dharma trail, a sleeping Buddha, one step forward two steps back