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Now, the Hawai i Arts Alliance is honoring a UH professor who touched a lot of lives in that auditorium.
With his slight build and sandy hair, artist Duane Preble is a soft-spoken educator. But in his classes, Preble would get excited about ideas like reverence, honesty and truth discovered through working with materials like paint and clay.
We had a chance to talk in 2015 at his thoughtfully designed home/studio in Manoa solar-powered, sustainable materials, open to nature. For Preble, there are no walls between art and life. Esthetic engagement is working with the things of life in a way that is beneficial and constructive to yourself and everybody around you, he said.