Artist Bio

Monica Garrett is a second-generation printmaker and artist. As an artist, Monica draws inspiration from the natural world as well as core memories of travels connected to her multi-cultural heritage. This connection, often expressed through colors and textures, straddles the line between delicate forms or organic earthy ones. Her prints and sculptures encompasses a deep appreciation of the world around in its rawest form, and is often laden with an ephemeral sense of quiet solitude.

She is on the Board of Directors for the Honolulu Printmakers and is the Assistant Manager of Studio Programs with the Honolulu Museum of Art. Monica seeks to broaden creative expression and human idea collaborations through promoting arts in the community. This is done through meaningful programming and education opportunities offered across multiple platforms and demographics. She supports artists and arts development throughout Hawai‘i.

Current and upcoming projects:

-Production Designer for “In the Stillness of the Night”, a puppet film with Lonely George Films

Recent Shows and Grants:

-2024 96th Annual Juried Exhibition April 2024

-2024 Kjargaard Project (Art show highlighting the portfolio exchange of color prints organized by the Honolulu Printmakers to celebrate John Kjargaard)

-2023 95th Annual Juried Exhibition June 2023

*Won Award for Excellence in Monoprint in Honor of John Chin Young

-2022 Grant- Artist in the Schools (Awarded by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (Hawai'i))

-2022 Honolulu Printmakers 2022 Annual Juried Exhibition (94th Annual Juried Exhibition) October 2022

-2022 Grant- Emerging Artist in the Schools (Awarded by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (Hawai'i))

-2021 Honolulu Printmakers 2021 Annual Juried Exhibition September 2021

*Won Award for Excellence in Memory of Dodie Warren

-2020 Honolulu Printmakers 2020 Annual Juried Exhibition

Community Events and Interviews:

-May 2023 Print Experience- community print event held on the First Friday at Honolulu Printmakers

-2023/2024 Interviews written for Printmakers Notes, featuring local printmakers-

George Woollard
Naoise Magee
Paul Galang
Tamara Moan
Paul Galang- as Gift Print artist
Jeff Stephanic
Denise Karabinus
Kandi Everett

Education:

Bachelor of Fine Arts- University of South Florida

Continued Education-

-Graphic Design for Business: From Print to Web - Windward Community College, Hawaii

-History of Inca Civilization & Pre-Colombian Art- Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Peru

-Photography- Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Peru