Shangri La welcomes Ben Weitz, its new Executive Director.

Shangri La Museum Of Islamic Art, Culture & Design Presents Its Inaugural Nature, Art & Native Knowledge Event

Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design announces its next Artist-In-Residence, RobertFaridKarimi, from May 18 to 28, 2023. RobertFaridKarimi is a multifaceted artist whose work explores the fields of performing arts, poetry, education, filmmaking, and social engagement.

The Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design has announced that internationally acclaimed makeup artist, Sandra Saenz, will be working with Shangri La as one of its 2023 Artists-in-Residence. Saenz is a makeup and visual artist who is disrupting the beauty industry and breaking stereotypes. She is the first Mexican hijabi makeup artist to secure agency representation in the USA and has been described as a “positive rebel.”

Guirguis Transforming Shangri La's Playhouse into Artist Studio to Create Original Artwork

Center for Islamic Art, Culture & Design Collaborates with East-West Center to Host Official Dialogue Between Allies

Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design announces its next Artist-In-Residence, Abdul Matin Malikzada, from January 21 to 28, 2023. Malikzada is a seventh-generation potter from Istalif, Afghanistan - a celebrated epicenter of ceramic production in the country's east. During his residency, Malikzada will begin work on two unique ceramics for Shangri La, representing Istalif’s pottery traditions as contextualized by Shangri La and incorporating clay sourced from Oahu with the help of local ceramicist, Kahikino Noa Dettweiler, of the Hawai’i Potters’ Guild (HPG). The convergence of Malikzada and Dettweiler and their ceramic traditions will explore themes of materiality, making, and personal connections to place and culture. During the week of his residency, Shangri La will host community workshops with HPG and other Master Class demonstrations and lectures at the Honolulu Museum of Art School and Mid-Pacific Institute.

Meredith Artley, Executive-in-Residence and Interim Executive Director and Sam Gill, President and CEO of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation sit down with Hawaiʻi Public Radio in this recent interview.