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 haven’t fully experienced Maui unless you’ve visited this market, exposition, community gathering and social event crammed into a few hours every Saturday. Vendors come from all over the island to sell pineapples, papayas, lettuce, estate jewelry, lilikoi butter, Tahitian pearls, ‘ukeleles, bikinis, orchids, bonsai trees, aloha shirts, crackseeds, nose flutes and Pele’s hair. The latter is something like Spanish...