ESTHER HI'ILANI CANDARI 

It's a new year which for the Latter-day Saint Community means a new course of study and a new study manual. Well, in this case newish....

Hey, it’s me again, talking about the intersection of art, religion, gender, and race. Why is this a drum I beat so often? Because I...

By: Esther Hi’ilani Candari Esther is a lifelong member of the LDS church, an Asian-American, a fine artist, and an adjunct professor at...

Buena Vista YSA 3rd Ward - October 29, 2017 Esther Hi’ilani Candari Shakespeare’s 116 sonnet states “Let me not to the marriage of true...

Video by Ben Whatcott on behalf of Ke Alaka'i at BYU- Hawai'i

Senior BFA exhibit at BYU- Hawai'i. Video by Ben Whatcott

(Journal Entry) January 8, 2017 “Sometimes there are emotions and pains too sacred, too pure to describe. Innocent hopes that when...

Aloha Brothers and Sisters, It is a common trope to begin a talk with some joke about receiving a call, often from an unknown number,...

I was 13, I was sitting in the second row of Sunday school with a mix of 12-17yr olds, when I felt it again for the fifth time in as many...

All three of my most serious romantic relationships...and a plethora of other flings, friendships, and fiascos....were the result of the...

Among the books beloved by American children for many decades is a piece titled “Are You My Mother” by illustrator and animator P.D....

We had finished our chores early and my brothers and I had built the great and spacious building of blanket forts. My mother would...