Artists in the Garden

Offering the garden as a site of stillness and creative conversation with the land

Maui artist Maggie Sutrov painting en plein air in the garden

During short private visits, artists, poets, students and scientists of all ages and backgrounds have been working among the palms in W.S. Merwin’s lush palm garden.

Mālama Wao Akua

Native Species Art Exhibition Hosted by East Maui Watershed Partnership

Each year, the Merwin Conservancy hosts “Adventures for Artists” in the Merwin Garden in support of the East Maui Watershed Partnership’s annual Mālama Wao Akua juried art exhibition at Hui Noʻeau Visual Arts Center on Maui. For more information about the process, please see the exhibition’s prospectus.

To view the works of artists who have visited the garden in the past, please see a sampling below: