Project Description
About the Piece
View of Manoa Heritage Center: Kūkaʻōʻō Heiau with Cooke Mansion (built in 1911) in the background.
About the Artist
Born in New York City, JARED WICKWARE is a printmaker who spent twenty-six years of his professional career as a Graphic Artist and Illustrator with the US Navy; the last eight years as Graphics Chief on the Staff of Commander Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. He left the Navy in 2003 to focus on his own artwork.
Jared earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1975 from California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland (now California College of the Arts), where he initially developed his skills as an artist-engraver. He enjoys a reputation as one of the very few and foremost artists working in this medium today.
Jared has served as President for Honolulu Printmakers, and was selected as the 2011 feature artist (Gift Print Artist) for the Honolulu Printmakers 83rd Annual Exhibition.
From 2010 – 2019 he provided introductory art instruction for the DoD sponsored Warriors in Transition program for soldiers stationed at Schofield Barracks on Oahu.
He and his wife, the former Constance Furniss, have one son, Charles (age 38) until recently an aircraft carrier-based F/A–18E pilot with the US Navy, and an excellent artist in his own right.