As part of his expanding project First Colony, Bellwether artist Lordy Rodriguez invites gallery visitors to become citizens of this new land and participate in a special election. With this special voting session, citizens are given the chance to vote on important issues concerning the colony such as expanding into neighboring indigenous lands or not. Each time a citizen votes, they jump up one status level and are given more benefits including having a street in First Colony named after them. Along with this special voting session, new and established citizens are welcome to stick around and learn about the preexisting Uo'kalani Village through the making of artifacts using traditional crafting techniques.

Don’t miss this chance to shape your new adopted community. Gaining citizenship is easy. Simple fill out an application and for a small fee you will receive a photo ID, a citizenship certificate and the right to vote.