Visiting Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center is more than a stop at an art gallery. It’s a chance to see how the other half lived. The center is housed in the 1917 plantation estate home of Harry and Ethel Baldwin, descendants of missionaries and the “first family” of Hawaiian sugar. Architect C.W. Dickey designed the Mediterranean-Hawaiian stucco mansion. He’s famous...

Maui Crafts Guild has a new home, a prominent Pa‘ia corner with expansive windows. The gallery used to be in the two-story plantation style building and then a tiny yellow store across the street. Maui’s only artist-owned cooperative offers the work of about 25 artisans who turn out an amazing variety of work. Ceramics, wood objects, glass, fiber, prints, jewelry...

Take 300 Hawaiian artists and give them four galleries in which to exhibit, and you have some idea of the variety and breadth you’ll find at the Maui Hands locations. This might sound like big business, a chain even, but this is a grassroots endeavor from artists and artisans to owner. The Pa‘ia location seems to be the most spacious,...

You can get to the Turnbull Studios and Sculpture Garden by driving northwest from Kahului on Kaheliki Highway. Just after the road gets seriously narrow, you’ll find them on the right. This is the easy way. Or you can come in the opposite direction from West Maui through Kahakuloa. It will take you considerably longer. The road may cause you...