Deb:
I was at a coffee cupping (tasting) last year in Kona, Hawaii sponsored by
the Kona Coffee Festival. Associated with this event was an art show and
sale that focused on coffee, there were actually works of art painted with
Kona coffee and carvings made form coffee wood. Contact the Kona Historical
Society perhaps we can put you in touch with the Kona Coffee Festival folks
for more information about these artists and their work.

Mary Parr
Kona Historical Society
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From: Deb Fuller <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Friday, May 08, 1998 4:15 AM
Subject: Coffee and art


>Hello all!!
>
>It's time for yet another random request from Deb.  This time I'm looking
>for art is by or about the various people's who work on the coffee
>plantations around the world.  This includes places like Colombia, Kenya,
>India, Jamacia, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Yemen, Haiti, Zimbabwe, Malawi,
>Burundi, New Guinea and Brazil.
>
>I can find tons of folk art from those areas, just nothing specific too
>coffee.  I'm thinking that folk art is folk art people who work on the
>coffee plantations produce the same art as people who work elsewhere in the
>country but have no "offical" documentation of that.  If there are art
>historians out there who could help me out and say that woven mats from
>Kenya are the same all over the country or wooden knick knacks from Brazil
>are pretty much the same all over the country, it would make my work a lot
>easier.
>
>In addition, I'm also looking for work songs of people in the coffee
>fields.  Again, I can find plenty of native music but I don't know if it is
>sung on the coffee plantations or not.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Deb Fuller
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