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Albert Wendt: Writing in Color
Abstract
Between 2004 and 2008, celebrated Sāmoan writer Albert Wendt held the Citizens’ Chair in the Department of English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. By 2007, Wendt had completed twenty-seven paintings, each one a visual ode to the land and people of Hawai‘i. These paintings were featured in his first art exhibition, held at the Louis Pohl Gallery in Honolulu in 2007. This piece is a review of that exhibition, Le Amataga: The Beginning, along with an interview with Wendt that took place soon after the exhibition opened.