Mary A. Griffin

John Charlot earned his Dr.Theol. in New Testament Studies from the University of Munich and is currently Professor of Polynesian Religions at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He has written extensively on the life and work of his father, Jean Charlot.

Laura Warfield is a paralegal for a Honolulu law firm. Born in Pennsylvania, she has lived in Hawaiʻi for twenty years. She has a B.A. in history from Fordham University’s College at Lincoln Center.

Rae C. Shiraki holds a BA in history from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MLISc from the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa. She is employed as an archivist-librarian at the ILWU Local 142. The union’s Honolulu headquarters is the site of a 3-panel buon fresco mural by Pablo O’Higgins, a friend and colleague of Jean Charlot.

Lew Andrews received his M.F.A. in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and his M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he teaches courses on Renaissance and Baroque art, on visual narratives, and on the history of photography. He has published studies on Renaissance art and on photography; he is completing on a book about Edward Weston and Jean Charlot.

Jay Jensen

Tom Klobe, director of the University of Hawaiʻi Art Gallery for 29 years before his retirement in 2006, taught courses in Exhibition Design, Museum Interpretation, and Islamic and Medieval Art History. The high level of excellence and professionalism that he practices in installing exhibitions and publishing catalogues has been acknowledged through numerous professional awards, among them are five Print Casebooks: Best in Exhibition Design Awards. He was awarded the prestigious Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1999 by the Republic of France, and in 2005 he was named a Living Treasure of Hawai‘i.

Spencer Leineweber FAIA is a first rank instructor of Ikebana Sogetsu and Professor and Director of the Heritage Center in the School of Architecture, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her level of expertise and professionalism in the restoration area is acknowledged by significant national awards from her professional peers for her projects. Her current research includes studies of vernacular architecture in the Pacific, particularly domestic space.

Nancy J. Morris is a long-time Hawaiʻi resident and a librarian and historian. Currently a librarian emerita at the University of Hawaiʻi, she was formerly a curator of the Jean Charlot Collection at that institution. Her research and writings have to do with aspects of Hawaiian history and art. They include several articles on Jean Charlot's illustrations for children’s books and Charlot’s relationship with the Mexican artist Posada.

Laura Ruby is the 2008 recipient of the Hawaiʻi Individual Artist Fellowship (the highest honor in the visual arts). Her prints and sculptures have been shown in national and international solo, juried, and invitational exhibitions. Her essay and a selection of her prints from the “Nancy Drew Series” are published in Rediscovering Nancy Drew (1995). She is also creating her “Diamond Head Series” and has completed a large site-specific sculpture, Chinatown–Site of Passage (1994). She has taught art at the University of Hawaiʻi since 1977, has recently edited Mōʻiliʻili–The Life of a Community, and is currently working on Honolulu Town.

Joseph Stanton is a scholar and poet, whose specialties include Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, nineteenth-century American art, early twentieth-century art, book illustration, interrelationships between literature and the visual arts, and the history of baseball. His books include Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art, A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Suburban Oahu: Poems, The Important Books: Children’s Picture Books as Art and Literature, Cardinal Points: Poems on St. Louis Cardinals Baseball, A Hawai‘i Anthology, and Stan Musial: A Biography. He is working on an article on Jean Charlot’s children’s book illustrations. His Ph.D. is from New York University. He teaches Art History and American Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Jean Trapido-Rosenthal was born and raised in Hawai‘i. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Art History from Pomona College and her Master’s degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in American art. She served as registrar, docent educator, and curator at the Bermuda National Gallery in Hamilton, Bermuda, as well as development associate at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research. Currently she serves as an interpretive guide at both Shangri La, the Diamond Head estate of the late Doris Duke, and at the Mānoa Heritage Center.

Bronwen Solyom, the curator of the Jean Charlot Collection, is an ex-officio, non-voting member of the Board.