Helen Gilbert

She earned a baccalaureate in art at Mills College, in California.

In 1968, she received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and then remained on the faculty for 30 years.

[2] She had also been a visiting professor at Parsons The New School for Design and the Pratt Institute.

[3] Although she painted images of the land and people of Hawaii with brush and palette knife, her fame rests upon her pioneering use of polarized light in kinetic sculpture.

[3] Licomos, a kinetic sculpture from 1970, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an example.