Marques Hanalei Marzan | |
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Born | Honolulu, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi | March 17, 1979
Education | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
Occupation(s) | Cultural Advisor and The Wayne Pitluck and Judith Pyle Curator for Cultural Resilience |
Employer(s) | Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi |
Marques Hanalei Marzan (born March 17, 1979) is a visual artist, chanter, dancer, scholar, and arts advocate of Hawaiian, Filipino, and Japanese descent. Marzan is best known for his fiber arts skill, experience, and knowledge in both Hawaiian customary and contemporary contexts. His work has been internationally collected and in the permanent collections of: Peabody Essex Museum, Linden Museum, British Museum,[1] Te Papa Tongarewa, Field Museum,[2] Capitol Modern.[3]
He is the Cultural Advisor and The Wayne Pitluck and Judith Pyle Curator for Cultural Resilience at Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi.