The NirMānā Projects

The NirMānā Projects A collaborative, week-long mural event for Kauai's resident artists, and a year-round youth mentoring program focused on creative problem solving.

NirMānā Mentor Projects take place year round with the intent of facilitating lasting knowledge and relationships through practical, creative problem solving experiences, while linking Kaua’i youth in collaboration with professional creators on island. There are a minimum of 10 mural project collaborations planned for 2021. Each new project will focus on several different, key youth collaborators

with the possibility of partial contributions from larger youth groups. Our focus during these projects is developing youth ideas/concepts and guiding them through a community project process, from proposal to finish. We believe these projects add tremendous value on an exponential scale. While the youth collaborators grow on a personal level, the mentors also grow through the guided collaborations, and the greater community benefits from a new mural. The results are phenomenal, with confident kids and proud communities. Contributions are made for these projects primarily by private donors and sponsors through the Garden Island Arts Council. NirMānāFest is a week-long event that puts resident artists in teams of three to collaborate on new murals. In addition to highlighting our resident creators, these murals activate spaces, create a narrative for communities, and boost economy by bringing attention to local business. Many of these artists have gone on to bolster their own creative businesses, some become youth mentors for NirMānā, and all continue to create! Partnerships and support for the NirMānā Projects have come from Rice Street Business Association, Kaua’i County, Kaua’i Planning and Action Alliance, Keiki to Career, The Kaua’i Resilience Project, the Spirit of CAN., Hawaii Arts Alliance, The National Endowment of the Arts, and many local businesses. Most notably, it has been incredible having unprecedented county support directly through our mayor’s office since the beginning of the current pandemic. Our local government is connected to NirMānā with encouragement and permission to use some of their property as canvases for these projects.

https://youtu.be/OCS2PvyyriY Very proud to share one of our latest projects in collaboration with Iwikua, Makana Trainin...
05/29/2023

https://youtu.be/OCS2PvyyriY Very proud to share one of our latest projects in collaboration with Iwikua, Makana Training Center, Waimea High, ANV Farm, The Kaua'i Resilience Project and Keiki to Career.

Hello Friends!I am thrilled to share about the latest completed NirMānā Project at Makana Training Center (MTC) in Waimea.In January discussions began with I...

Here's a production video from our latest mural project!
07/27/2022

Here's a production video from our latest mural project!

Very grateful for this experience working with HI DOT to create a mural for the west side of Kaua’i. It was a collaboration with NirMānā Projects on behalf o...

07/20/2022

The driver of a big pickup truck stopped after entering the ‘Ele‘ele Shopping Center Sunday through the west entrance. “You done good, brudda,” he paused to say before continuing to his destination.

https://youtu.be/6RhQ07rMT24 😄
03/28/2022

https://youtu.be/6RhQ07rMT24 😄

NirMānā Projects was proud to partner with The Right Slice in Kalaheo for a mentor project with 3 collaborating high school students. At the end of 2021, Qui...

Kekaha youth collaboration mural video with Caylin Spear and NirMānā Projects
02/14/2022

Kekaha youth collaboration mural video with Caylin Spear and NirMānā Projects

In the spring of 2021 NirMānā Projects founder, Seth Womble approached Caylin Spear to mentor a collaborative youth mural on the west side of Kauai.Caylin ma...

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02/04/2022

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Located off Rice Street in Līhu‘e is a brightly painted mural that artist Kelly Sinclair Vicars and a group of residents created together. The mural, which wraps around three sides of a storage container in a community garden, uses stylized sunflowers to represent the sun at three stages – morn...

01/17/2022

Despite Covid, shifting school schedules, heavy rains and brutal sunny days with no wind, Erin, Quinn, and Sophia stepped up their game last week and crushed this big wall at the Right Slice in Kalaheo.

Start to finish, this was their project. Thanks to support from Right Slice Boss Lady Sandy Poehnelt as well as some pro guidance from Chara Hoe (Contractor Boss Lady), Erin, Quinn, and Sophia designed and created a new mural titled “MO’O PLEASE” for the west side in Kalaheo.

NirMānā Projects Mentor had originally painted a mural on this wall for Sandy in 2016 with the agreement to paint it again with a group of youth collaborators in a few years when it started to weather and fade.

These ladies truly worked through creative problem solving and adjusted their sails to the given circumstances. Erin, Sofia, and Quinn grew up together and in a couple weeks one of their tribe is taking off on an indefinite boat journey with her family to explore the world. This mural is their legacy.

More to this story will unfold with some final photos, finishing touches and shading in a few weeks.

Thank you Dennis for sharing too!

12/31/2021

Last NirMānā mural project of the year! And, looks like it’ll also be the first one of 2022. Adjusting our sails with the weather this week and will get back to it as soon as possible.
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Quinn Coscarella, Erin Hunt, and Sofia Saunders from Waimea High make up this collaborative mural team. We are excited to bring a fresh design
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Special thanks to owner Sandy Poehnelt for setting an awesome example as a Kaua’i business owner and for this incredible opportunity for some future girl bosses.
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Additional thanks to Chara Hoe (also a badass lady boss with her own contracting company) for helping demonstrate some excellent brush techniques.
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This year’s NirMānā Mentor projects wouldn’t have been possible without the help of private donations and grants through the Garden Island Arts Council
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For information on how to help in 2022, please get in touch!
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Brew Block x Donkey Mill x NirMānā ProjectsA collection of beautiful photos from Alyssa Brandt and a few other snaps...•...
12/06/2021

Brew Block x Donkey Mill x NirMānā Projects
A collection of beautiful photos from Alyssa Brandt and a few other snaps...
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November 2021, Nirmana Mentor Projects was blessed with an invitation to collaborate in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.
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On Nov. 11th we met virtually with 9 Hawaiian youth from the same halau to learn about Hawaiian legacy objects, their form, purpose, and the generational knowledge that is passed along with them.
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Nov. 14th, we met in person for a 6 hour workshop with experts Gary Eoff and Apo Aquino for an in-depth discussion on Hawaiian legacy items. We then explored composition and and making marks with spray paints with .ira_808
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Nov. 19th the group joined & to add a map legend as “Legacy” to the 4500sqft mural next to
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Big mahalos to some exceptional buffing by the multitalented
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The overall experience was profound for each participant. Whether it was learning a new word, tool, technique or approach, we all met in the middle and guided each other through this exploration.
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Special thanks to those mentioned above and additionally the Grace Ohana and Mattson and Thalia for helping create this amazing opportunity.

https://youtu.be/W0-uLlBFkLk
12/06/2021

https://youtu.be/W0-uLlBFkLk

November 2021, Nirmana Mentor Projects was blessed with an invitation to collaborate in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.•On Nov. 11th we met virtually with 9 Hawaiian yo...

https://youtu.be/_EkFVEgYGAw
09/10/2021

https://youtu.be/_EkFVEgYGAw

This NirMānā Mentor Project was led by Kelly Sinclair Vicars with the help of guest artists Chelsey Daligdig, Tonya Ortiz, Krystal and Sofia Hackett, Rene Wi...

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