2003 Grant Awards: State Listings

Creativity/Organizational Capacity/Literature Fellowships
Leadership Initiatives

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

HAWAII

Bamboo Ridge Press
Honolulu, HI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support publication, promotion and distribution costs for issues of Bamboo Ridge. Proposed issues include a 25th anniversary edition and a special issue on Hawaiian writers of Korean heritage.

Bishop Museum
Honolulu, HI
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$75,000
To support the preservation of the museum's vast Hawaiian Cultural Collection. Environmental stabilization and climate control improvements of Hawaiian Hall are critical to saving the collection, which reflects the diverse legacy of Native Hawaiian culture and 19th and 20th century Hawaiian immigration.

Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Honolulu, HI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$23,000
To support the production of a play. Y. York's Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi will be directed by Artistic Director by Mark Lutwak and presented to Oahu children and families in the spring of 2003.

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support publication, promotion, distribution and related expenses for issues of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Scheduled issues will feature Cambodian and Cambodian-American writing and postmodern Chinese fiction.

Total Dollars Awarded: $128,000
Total Grants Awarded: 4

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
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Washington, DC 20506