With the month of October growing closer and closer, the Art Club here at KS prepares for its annual October event: Pāheona ʻOkakopa. Meaning “art October,” Pāheona ʻOkakopa is a yearly tradition here on campus for our art students from all grades to come together and create thematic art all month long.
The concept of Pāheona ʻOkakopa comes from “Inktober,” which motivates and challenges artists all around the globe to create pieces inspired by a series of prompts every October. This pop culture event has been around since the year 2009, created by artist Jake Parker. Parker wanted to challenge himself to spend the month of October creating a piece every day using only ink, however, Inktober has evolved over these past fourteen years into something bigger that includes every medium you can imagine. A few years ago, our art students participated in “Alohoctober” with Kumu Boz, an art teacher here on campus. However, they have since diverged into creating Pāheona ʻOkakopa and self-directing their annual creative challenge.
