Supporting the artists
who carry our culture forward.
Fostering Connections. Empowering Artists. Celebrating Culture.
Transforming Community through Indigenous Arts
Native Hawaiian and Indigenous artists are some of the most culturally important contributors in our community — carrying mo'olelo, building identity, and creating work that connects generations. Being a great artist and running a sustainable creative practice are two very different skill sets, and most programs aren't built to bridge that gap.
The Indigenous Creatives program exists for that reason. For fine artists, muralists, musicians, performers, fiber artists, and other creatives, Kūkolu provides business backbone and community connections so the focus stays on the art.
How Kūkolu Supports Indigenous Creatives.
Our support for Indigenous Creatives is flexible, relationship-driven, and designed to meet each artist where they are. Here's what that looks like in practice.
Business
Backbone
The operational and business support that lets you focus on creating. Contract review, pricing guidance, legal structure questions, financial basics, and the trusted advice that comes from years of experience working with creative businesses.
Community Engagement
Connecting artists to meaningful opportunities to share their work, engage with community, and build the kind of relationships that sustain a creative practice for the long term. We open doors and make introductions that would otherwise take years to build.
Scholarship Administration
Kūkolu administers scholarships on behalf of artists and donors who want to invest in the next generation of Native Hawaiian creatives. If you want to give back through a scholarship but don't know how to run one, we handle the infrastructure so the impact is real.
Art as a force for
community connection.
Kūkolu deepens collaborations and strategic partnerships between artists and organizations — not just to give artists a platform, but to use art as a force for connection, healing, and cultural perpetuation. The mo'olelo that Indigenous art carries is irreplaceable. We take seriously our role in making sure it reaches the communities it belongs to.
We work with organizations who want to commission, partner with, or feature Native Hawaiian and Indigenous artists in meaningful — not transactional — ways.
Meet Our Community of Native Hawaiian Artists
Brandy-Alia Serikaku
Brandy-Alia Serikaku is an artist from Hilo, Hawai'i whose work sits at the intersection of cultural practice and contemporary design. A lifelong hula practitioner with Hālau O Ka Ua Kani Lehua and a Hawaiian Studies graduate of UH Hilo, Brandy brings both deep cultural grounding and a trained design eye to everything she creates. Her work is known for being thoughtful, personal, and rooted in a genuine relationship with Hawaiian culture - not just its aesthetics, but its meaning.
These are some of the Native Hawaiian and Indigenous creatives Kūkolu has supported, partnered with, or helped connect to community. Each one carries mo'olelo that matters.
Solomon Enos
Solomon Robert Nui Enos is a Native Hawaiian artist and illustrator rooted in Makaha Valley, where he has been creating work for over three decades. His practice spans oil painting, murals, book illustration, and game design - a range that reflects both his technical versatility and his refusal to be confined to a single medium. Solomon describes himself as a "Possibilist," and his work lives up to that word - blending contemporary and traditional visual language with elements of science fiction and fantasy to imagine what the world looks like at its very best.
Jack Soren
Jack Soren is a Native Hawaiian muralist and painter based on the North Shore of O'ahu. His work draws from surf culture, street art, and traditional island storytelling, producing large-scale pieces and canvases that feel both rooted in place and alive with contemporary energy. Jack's visual language reimagines the iconography of Hawai'i through a lens that is wholly his own - vibrant, culturally grounded, and unmistakably local. His work has led to collaborations with major brands and organizations across the islands and beyond.