My name is Maxine Aulelava. I grew up in Kaneohe and Waimanalo on the windward side of O‘ahu, graduated from Castle High School and Windward community college in Hawaiian Studies. I will be graduating with my BA in Creative Media with a concentration in Communications and New Media Technologies. I would be a carving knife because I enjoy carving piece by piece to create a masterpiece from a plain raw platform. I like to create as I go and see the final outcome as it develops.
Polynesians in history are known to be navigators that migrate from one area to another in search of new lands with opportunities abroad. There is currently a migration among the native people of Hawai‘i today to different parts of the world. Why? This research project intends to share the voices and stories of native Hawaiians, aka KĀNAKA MAOLI, that relocated away from our homeland of Hawai‘i.
The concept of creativity has come a long way. The Old Greeks would call those creative forces muses, other religions referred to them as God. Today people still mostly treat creativity as an aha moment outside the area of influence. However, just by looking at the creative process one can tell, that creativity and creative work is more than just that one "Aha-Moment" (insight). It is clear that generating ideas demands planning and preparation, identifying something of interest like a problem, an opportunity or a challenge, doing research. This then leads to thinking of a solution, allowing time to incubate and iterations before arriving at something “complete.” Students learn that hard work is what makes their ideas come to life and sticktuiveness is what helps them get better.