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FY 2013 Grant Awards: State Listings
Art Works I | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Poetry)
Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent
upon prior Endowment approval.
HAWAII
Bamboo Ridge Press
Honolulu, HI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Hawaiian literature through the publication and promotion of the journal Bamboo Ridge and a collection of short stories and poems by Gail Harada. Authors published by Bamboo Ridge conduct free public readings, class visits, workshops, and panel discussions in urban and rural Oahu, Maui, Hawaii, Kauai, and Molokai. East Hawaii Cultural Council
Hilo, HI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Big Island Hawaiian Music Festival. The festival - featuring selected musicians presenting authentic Hawaiian-style music including slack key guitar, steel guitar, ukulele, falsetto, and contemporary with hula - will take place at the Afook Chinen Civic Auditorium, drawing an audience from the northeastern coast of the Hawaii Island. Honolulu Academy of Arts (aka Honolulu Museum of Art)
Honolulu, HI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams in Hawaii and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will include 13 paintings associated with O'Keeffe's (1887-1986) trip to Hawaii in 1939 to create illustrations for print advertisements for the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (now the Dole Company) and approximately 50 of Adams' (1902-84) photographs taken on commission for the Department of the Interior and the Bishop National Bank of Hawaii. Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Honolulu, HI
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development of an adaptation of the Newbery Award-winning novel Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry. The 1940s novel is set in ancient Polynesia, prior to Western contact. The production will incorporate traditional Polynesian chant, dance, musical instrumentation, and physical materials authentic to the region and time period to tell the story. Moanalua Gardens Foundation, Inc.
Honolulu, HI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Prince Lot Hula Festival. The oldest and largest non-competitive hula event in Hawaii, the festival presents both ancient and modern performances of traditional dance performed by hula schools from Oahu, as well as offering educational displays, craft demonstrations, and music performances. University of Hawaii at Manoa (on behalf of MANOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing)
Honolulu, HI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, distribution, and design of the international literary journal Mãnoa. The journal's primary mission is to make contemporary works of Asia and the Pacific available to English-speaking readers through new translations and to make American literature available to international readers.
Number of Grants: 6 Total Amount: $120,000
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