An Imparting Landscape
A Collaborative Mural Project at Common Ground
As our new restaurant takes shape, the construction fence surrounding the site becomes a large-scale collaborative mural:
An ephemeral public artwork created by eleven artists across 500 feet of shared space.
The mural, titled An Imparting Landscape, explores the passing of knowledge, tradition, and creative language from one person to another. Like the natural cycles of a living landscape, what we learn is carried forward, reshaped, and shared again.
About The Theme:
Impart means to make known; to communicate.
An Imparting Landscape reflects the way knowledge and tradition move through mentorship, memory, and lived experience. The perpetually evolving environment of the passing of knowledge and tradition, via the connection of mentorship, as a living landscape. It is fluid and compounding through individuals lifetimes in iterations- just as the cycles of nature reproduce itself, reflective of its predecessor, and incubating to its successor. As in the sculpting and cultivation of place in literal senses, the imparting landscape requires knowledge, nourishment, and attentiveness of its immediate environment.
The work invites each artist to consider someone who has shaped them — a mentor, elder, child, peer, or loved one — and to incorporate a subtle piece of that relationship into their design.
Project Timeline
Mural Live Painting window: May 20- June 23, 2026
Unveiling: June 27, 2026
Community Event – Saturday June 27, 3-10PM
Join us for a day of mural-focused activations, artist conversations, cultural programming, and an evening Lo-Fi gathering.
3:00–4:00 PM
Guided mural tour with participating artists
4:15–5:00 PM
State Foundation on Culture and the Arts presentation by SFCA’s Executive Director, Karen Ewald
5:15–6:15 PM
Artist Q&A panel on the theme, process, and community connection hosted by Solomon Enos
6:30–7:15 PM
Chris Miyashiro presents his film: ‘A’a: An Islands Twinkle
7:30–10:00 PM
Lo-Fi evening with DJ La’akea Aikau & DJ Morgan
Food & Drinks for purchase by Common Ground Kaua’i
Projection Art by featured artists inside The Warehouse
The Mural
Each artist has painted a 50-foot section, while working with their neighboring artists to weave their designs together as they intersect one another. The result will be one continuous, evolving work — individual voices held within a larger shared composition.
The Artists
Solomon Enos
Solomon Robert Nui Enos is a Native Hawaiian artist, illustrator, and visionary. Born and raised in Makaha Valley (O‘ahu, Hawai‘i), Solomon hails from the well-known Enos ‘ohana. Solomon has been making art for more than 30 years and he is adept at artistic expression in a wide variety of media including oil paintings, book illustrations, murals, and game design. A self-described “Possibilist” Solomon’s art expresses an informed aspirational vision of the world at its best via contemporary and traditional art that leans towards Sci-Fi and Fantasy. His work touches on themes like collective-consciousness, ancestry and identity, our relationship with our planet, and all through the lens of his experience as a person indigenous to Hawai’i.
Solomon has exhibited in Biennial X (Honolulu Museum of Art), 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Queensland Art Gallery), CONTACT art exhibitions, and others. His work is held in private collections and in the public collections of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and Hawai’i State Art Museum. He has led numerous community mural projects and has received art commissions for hotels, corporate offices, public buildings, and schools in Hawai’i. His latest works include murals and augmented-reality installations for Google and Disney.
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Tiffany Chow
Pui Tiffany Chow (b. Hong Kong) immigrated to the United States after the Handover from the British government and now lives and works in Los Angeles. Her paintings and drawings examine the body and the capacity for the canvas to stage it. Drawing on pointed art-historical references, exploring the intersection of abstraction and figuration, she interrogates painting traditions in both subject and form, weaving Eastern and Western cultural codes into a pastiche of different tempos, feelings and approaches. Pui Tiffany Chow is an Assistant Professor of Art at Pomona College, Claremont, California.
Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Venus Mirror (solo) at Good Bones, Claremont; LOOK || REVEL at CCS gallery, UC Santa Barbara (2025); Susanna (solo) at Phase Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); Hurly-Burly (solo) at Parker Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); 2 Bad Mouse at After Hours Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Bend at Phase Gallery, Los Angeles (2022).
She has participated in group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Five Churches, Los Angeles (2026), Benton Museum of Art, Claremont (2025), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (2024), Luis De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles (2025), Mey Gallery, Los Angeles (2024), Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles (2024), Pomona College Chan Gallery, Claremont (2024, 2022), The Wolford House, Los Angeles (2023), Shrine Gallery, Los Angeles (2023), Torrance Art Museum, Torrance (2023), Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris (2022), Phase Gallery, Los Angeles (2022), Gravy Gallery, Santa Cruz (2022), One Trick Pony, Los Angeles (2021), Kylin Gallery, Los Angeles (2021), ArtCenter DTLA, Los Angeles (2020), UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles (2019), Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA (2019) and Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA (2018).
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Sanoe Stevenson-Egeland
Sanoe Stevenson-Egeland (b. 1998, Kaua’i, Hawai’i) is a painter based in Seattle, Washington. Throughout her work, tangled composition and vibrant color concert the harmonies and inconsistencies of everyday recollection. Attending to contradiction as a way to closely examine human experience, each of her paintings consider the ways that we perceive the world through many lenses at once–alone, beside one another, and collectively. She’s intrigued by Hawai’i truck culture, music, blue collar livelihood, and a brutal combination of lust, loneliness and longing–often synthesizing these elements to set specific scenes and tell personal stories. A few of her recent projects include a mural commissioned by the Port of Seattle along the Seattle Waterfront at Pier 69; commissioned work made in residency with ARTXIV for the Populus Hotel; curatorial work for the Downtown Seattle Association; an ongoing residency with Actualize AiR; Another Hit, a group exhibition at Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio, TX; and a recent solo show, The Hardwood Table, at Geheim Gallery in Bellingham, WA. Sanoe received her BFA in Fine Arts from Cornish College of the Arts in 2020. Aside from her personal practice, she also works as the Manager of the Neddy Artist Award program.
Photo credits:
Studio photos, Ryan Warner
Outdoor photos, Zofia Beck
Instagram: @sanoes Website: sanoes.com
Tay Reinhold
Santa Cruz native, Taylor Reinhold, imaginative murals grace locations worldwide, from the streets of Brazil and Costa Rica to the landscapes of Tanzania and Thailand. Within the dynamic community of the Made Fresh Crew collective, he collaborates with fellow artisans, constantly innovating and producing original works of art.
Reinhold became Director of Sea Walls Santa Cruz, introducing the PangeaSeed Foundation’s esteemed global program, Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans, to the shores of Santa Cruz, California. The initiative aimed to illuminate pressing ocean conservation issues through the creation of 19 thought-provoking murals.
Reinhold remains deeply committed to nurturing creativity among the youth through various outreach endeavors. He has orchestrated and led workshops in esteemed non-profit organizations such as Youth Now, Mariposa Arts, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.
Notably, in 2020, he played a pivotal role in spearheading Santa Cruz’s first block-long Black Lives Matter street mural alongside partners in the Santa Cruz Equity Collab, where he holds a founding position.
Chris Miyashiro
Chris Miyashiro from O’ahu, also known as “Mysto” is a surfer, avid sailor, and storyteller whose work spans painting, printmaking, fashion, film and mural installations- inspired by the wonders of the universe and the spirit of the Paeʻāina (Hawaiian archipelago).
Chris & Bryce Baker teamed up to collaborate on the design and install of their mural section at Common Ground.
Bryce Baker
Bryce Baker is an artist and surfer from the North Shore of Kauaʻi whose work spans painting, textiles, murals, and mixed media. Drawing from his japanese heritage, surf culture, and travels abroad, his work is rooted in color, texture, and nature’s influences of Hawaiʻi. Moving between art, design, and surf culture, Baker has collaborated with brands, galleries, and cultural organizations across Hawaiʻi, California, and Japan, including RVCA, Honolulu Museum of Art, Reese Cooper, and Greenroom Festival Japan. He has also appeared in a number of surf films through collaborations with The Surfer’s Journal, Mollusk Surf Shop, Surfline, and others.
Holly Ka'iakapu
“As a Native Hawaiian from West Kauaʻi, I grew up with my feet in the same grounds as my ancestors. This forged an unbreakable bond between ʻāina and myself as an artist. This connection became the foundation and source of inspiration as I developed my skills as an interdisciplinary artist who values the power of community and the endless potential of art. These values led me to obtain a Bachelor’s degree in Visual and Public Art from California State University, Monterey Bay.
Through painting murals, hosting art workshops, and repurposing materials, I merge my love for the natural world with visual storytelling. My goal is to create a meeting place for cultural and environmental awareness using visual communication.”
Personal narrative around the concept: “I am thinking of my grandma’s (always) and the gifts they have given me – not physical objects, but lifelong skills gained by lived experience. I am inspired by the beauty of handiwork, and how these gifts require one to be tough as pōhaku and soft as cloth.”
Taylor Lowe
Taylor Lowe was born in 1985 into a family that valued her creativity and work ethic. She pursued an education at the College of Charleston and graduated with her B.A. in 2008. She spent the next nine years, working as a part time professional painter and sushi chef on the island of Kauai. In 2016 she moved to San Francisco to focus on her art practice and left her identity as a culinary artist and business owner. Her work has transformed from still life oil paintings of fish and women to more a conceptual exploration in large scale painting, drawing, performance and video work. Before fulfilling her dream to sail her boat around the South Pacific, Taylor finished her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2018. Much of her work is inspired by her passion for the ocean and various cultures that thrive in and around the sea. Taylor kept her artistic career alive at sea by having art shows in various locations including New Zealand and Fiji. The lure of the Hawaiian Islands pulled her and her family back to Kauai in 2025, where they currently reside.
Statement for this mural:
My intention for this mural is to impart the wisdom that can only be found through our personal connection to nature. The awe-inspiring experiences, where we get to meditate, wonder and question the world that surrounds us. This raw curiosity, predetermines our understanding of the natural world. For example; my son loved watching the moon before he could even say “moon”. His love and witnessing of the moon every night over 5 years has turned him into a moon expert. I am referencing the moon and the owl in my work to honor his affinity for them. I am utilising handwritten text and drawings from my son to create texture, layers, and shapes found in repeating patterns within the mural. These smaller images will come together to create a giant soaring pueo over the night sky. I feel it is important to note that the pueo is a Hawaiian symbol of ancestral knowledge passed down from one generation to the next. Lineage is always alive in contemporary art as well as the external and internal landscape we choose to notice.
Matt Hoyme
Matt Hoyme draws inspiration from nature, human connection, and counterculture to create vivid, emotionally driven paintings. Based on Kaua‘i since 2014, his work blends imagination, memory, and observation, balancing drama, humor, and playful storytelling. Each piece begins as an intuitive vision or feeling, transformed into expressive artwork that explores the complexity of the human experience.
On the theme: An imparting landscape
This mural honors the enduring connection between the land, the ocean, and the people they sustain. It reflects the passing of knowledge, stewardship, and culture through generations, reminding us that our humanity is strengthened through self-expression, community, and our shared responsibility to protect the natural world for those yet to come.
Kaplan Bunce
Apache artist and Kauaʻi resident, Bunce works across murals, woodwork and sculptural installation, with his art functioning as a visual expression of prayer, ceremony and indigenous spirituality. A veteran of the World Wide Walls mural festival, his work is in the permanent collection of the STRAAT Museum in Amsterdam and he has painted across Hawaiʻi, the continental US and beyond.
Samuel Schryver
Common Ground Arts Director
Curator for ‘An Imparting Landscape’
Born in 1983 and raised in Los Angeles, Samuel has been living on Kaua‘i since 2015. He began his career in 1999 within the Los Angeles graffiti subculture— those early formative years painting in the streets continue to influence his work today, and are a foundational element in both his process and aesthetic. His work consistently engages with the nuances of modern culture—subcultures, geopolitics, their interconnections, and conflicts.
Notably, his work has been exhibited at institutions such as The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles and The Bishop Museum in Honolulu, and is part of the permanent collection at the Hawai‘i State Art Museum (Capitol Modern).
Alongside his fine art practice, Schryver has studied and worked across a wide spectrum of commercial arts, spending over 20 years as a fashion designer and commercial art director.
Partnership
This project includes programming in conversation with the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and Capitol Modern, honoring Hawaiʻi’s contemporary arts history, cultural legacy, and the artists shaping what comes next.
Questions & Contact
This page will be updated as the project develops.
For mural questions, artist information, or event details, please contact:
Samuel Schryver, Art Director at Common Ground
sams@commongroundkauai.com