{"id":20255,"date":"2010-12-10T10:27:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T18:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=20255"},"modified":"2010-12-10T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T19:08:16","slug":"haleiwas-iconic-artist-ron-artis-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=20255","title":{"rendered":"Haleiwa&#8217;s Iconic Artist Ron Artis Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ron_artis.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ron_artis.jpg','popup','width=810,height=445,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ron_artis-tm.jpg\" height=\"236\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ron Artis\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Haleiwa, Hawaii artist and musician <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ronartis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Artis<\/a><\/strong> died Wednesday, December 8, 2010 of an apparent heart attack leaving a large hole in the vibrant life of Haleiwa town. He was 61.<\/p>\n<p>His colorful gallery\/studio a.k.a. Resurrection City was one one of the brightest spots on Haleiwa&#8217;s main drag. Literally covered in reclaimed and painted broken surfboards and music playing seemingly 24-7, the place was obviously the work of man committed to his gifts. The entire North Shore was his canvas, according to the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/breaking\/111569644.html\" target=\"_blank\">Honolulu Star Advertiser<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Artis. . .created 900 murals in the community and resurrected discarded surfboards to adorn his Haleiwa gallery. . . The Texas-born painter and musician . . . participated in a 2008 police-backed beautification project to cover graffiti in Wahiawa, painting 25 murals around the town.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of his last musical projects were two songs written in memory of Andy Irons. His family has said on their website: &#8220;&#8221;Our Father Ron Artis is now watching us from Heaven he lived a full life and put everything into us and we will not disappoint him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Artis is survived by his wife and 11 children. Our thoughts are will the family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/breaking\/111569644.html\" target=\"_blank\">Honolulu Star Advertiser<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haleiwa, Hawaii artist and musician Ron Artis died Wednesday, December 8, 2010 of an apparent heart attack leaving a large hole in the vibrant life of Haleiwa town. He was 61. His colorful gallery\/studio a.k.a. Resurrection City was one one of the brightest spots on Haleiwa&#8217;s main drag. Literally covered in reclaimed and painted broken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20255"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20260,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20255\/revisions\/20260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}