Pow! Wow!

Last night, I was able to conduct my case study of of educational technology use in informal learning environments. I knew that we were given access to the Honolulu Museum of Art, but there was a special event happening at the Honolulu Museum of Art School. Since it is so closely related to the original location were given access to, I decided to take a trip there. It was for Pow! Wow! Hawaii 2018. The theme for the night was, “Exploring The New Contemporary Movement”.

Now since this class is focused on the integration of technology in informal learning environments, I will begin by saying that technology was non-existent in this place. This was slightly surprising, as I expected there to be some sort of integration to support the younger crowd that was there, but I digress.

Everyone was using technology, at least. People were taking pictures and recording videos that they were posting on social media (I wasn’t staring at other people’s phones! But it was pretty obvious from their screens they were on Snapchat or Instagram). So with that being said, I did expect some sort of technology to be used, or encouragement of attendants to use their own technology while touring through the facilities, but that didn’t happen.

I walked around the gallery and took quite a few pictures myself, some of my favorites will be attached to this post. There was one piece that is inappropriate to post on here, but the artist used one piece of wire to create this extremely intricate and detailed sculpture.

It was impressive how many people were at this event. There was free food and drinks, in addition to a sushi bar where a person was making whatever people wanted. Tip jars were abundant, but other than that there was no cost for the event.

Overall, for the assignment I was disappointed that there was no technology being used, but I had such a good time with my wife looking at all the art and discussing it with her. It made me want to get all snobby and start attending more museums and art galleries like this to analyze and discuss art pieces. It’s really interesting to see what artists come up with, as well as the connection I see to them.