Maui Business Tuesdays Salon with Maui Local Artists

Описание: Ever wonder how some artists make their work into a successful enterprise? You can find out that, and more, in our third Maui Business Tuesdays event, featuring established “Maui Local Artists”. Watch short feature videos of the invited guests:

Padilla Designs with founder Larry Padilla
Founder of Padilla Designs, Larry Padilla has been creating custom metal art in Hawai‘i since 1972. He leads a family-run business known for high-end residential and commercial designs that combine durability, beauty, and craftsmanship.

Sabado Art Hawaii with artist Philip Sabado
Owner of Sabado Art Hawaii, Philip Sabado is a nationally recognized artist raised on Molokai. After a successful career in Los Angeles, he returned home to Hawai‘i, where his work, murals, and community programs celebrate culture, history, and storytelling.

Pacific Rootz Tattoo with founder Sampson Harp
An award-winning tattoo artist and cultural practitioner, Samson Harp is the founder of Pacific Rootz Tattoo, Maui’s first Native Hawaiian–owned tattoo studio. Tattooing since 1992, he specializes in traditional and contemporary Pacific Island styles, blending cultural knowledge, craftsmanship, and healing through art. (Samson was unable to join the event conversation, but you can see his video story!)

The conversation was moderated by Pamela Tumpap, President of the Maui Chamber of Commerce, and explored how artists launch their careers, scale creative work into viable businesses, and balance cultural integrity with entrepreneurship. Speakers also discussed the challenges of running arts businesses on Maui, including costs, community support, and adapting to a rapidly changing post-disaster economy.

Maui Business Tuesdays are an in-person and hybrid, salon series focusing on Mauiʻs small business community through media storytelling, engaging conversation and networking. The series will provide a platform for local entrepreneurs to share their stories, challenges and solutions - in a post-disaster & rapidly changing economy. The series is supported by a grant from the Maui County Office of Economic Development (OED), in partnership with Maui Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce and Maui Chamber of Commerce, to help tell the stories of small & micro businesses in Maui Nui!

If you missed the event live, you can watch past salons anytime on the Akakū Upstairs playlist or stream them on the free MauiStream app.

You can help keep the Akakū Upstairs salon series and Maui Business Tuesdays thriving by making a tax-deductible donation to Akakū or becoming an underwriter. For more information, contact [email protected].