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State Foundation on Culture and the Arts OCTOBER 2024 Newsletter


“Mānaiakalani” sculpture by Scott Norwood Fitzel dedicated at Nānākuli Public Library

“Mānaiakalani” at the Nānākuli Public Library, sculpture by Scott Norwood Fitzel, 2024. Art in Public Places Collection of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

By day Māui’s fishhook reminds us of the lore of the creation of the Hawaiian Islands. When fishing with his brothers, Māui’s hook instead pulls up the seafloor above the ocean’s surface. The line then breaks and leaves the islands exposed. By night, Māui’s hook can be seen in the sky as the constellation Mānaiakalani, as it leads the Milky Way across the sky and sets each summer in the waters off the coast of Nānākuli, on the west side of Oʻahu. Learn more and view additional photos on the SFCA news page: sfca.hawaii.gov/news.

Local media coverage:

•   Hawaiʻi Public Radio Local artist creates Mānaiakalani sculpture, dedicated to Nānākuli Public Library | Hawai'i Public Radio (hawaiipublicradio.org)

•   University of Hawaiʻi News UH Mānoa alumnus unveils sculpture at Nānākuli Public Library | University of Hawaiʻi System News (hawaii.edu)

•   Maui Now Nānākuli’s new sculpture celebrates Māui’s legendary fishhook : Maui Now

Sculpture dedicated at Nānākuli Public Library


SFCA Arts Education Programs

Photo: museum visitors in the 2024 Hawaiʻi Regional Scholastic Art Awards exhibit at Capitol Modern.
Call for student artists: 2025 Hawaiʻi Regional Scholastic Student Art Awards competition open through December 15
The entry portal for the 2025 Hawaiʻi Regional Scholastic Art Awards competition is now open! Submissions are due by December 15, 2024, through the Scholastic Art Awards portal. For more information and to enter, please visit ArtAndWriting.org/regions/HI001A.

SFCA is inviting any interested community arts organization to become the new Hawaiʻi regional affiliate. Please contact SFCA Art in Public Places program manager Kamakani Konia at Kamakani.P.Konia@hawaii.gov for more information.

2025 Scholastic Student Art Awards portal


SFCA Art in Public Places Collection Spotlight

Photo: partial view of exhibit during opening reception for “The OG’s” exhibit at Gallery ʻIolani
19 photographs from SFCA collection on loan to Gallery ʻIolani exhibit
19 photographs from the SFCA Art in Public Places Collection are on loan to a new exhibit at Gallery ʻIolani (Windward Community College). The exhibition features eleven Hawaiʻi photographers "who mastered the silver gelatin process to create artistic records of our people and our history over the past 50 years" (Gallery ʻIolani). Participating artists: Wayne Levin, Stan Tomita, Shuzo Uemoto, Renee Iijima, Mark Hamasaki, Dr. Kimo Alexander Cashman, Karen K. Kosasa, Kapulani Landgraf, Jan Becket, Franco Salmoiraghi, and Ed Greevy.

Learn more about the exhibit on the Gallery ʻIolani website: gallery.windward.hawaii.edu/the-ogs-photographers-of-the-silver-gelatin-process

View the photos on loan on the SFCA news page: sfca.hawaii.gov/the-ogs-photographers-of-the-silver-gelatin-process-exhibit-at-gallery-%ca%bbiolani-features-works-from-sfca-art-in-public-places-collection.


SFCA News: The OG’s



Photo: Students explore Bumpei Akaji’s “Ke Mau Nei Ke Ea O Kauai I Puhi Aina Malu at Kauai Community College (The Spirit of Kauai Thrives in the Peaceful Land of Puhi)”. Photo credit: Hawaii Technology Academy.
Hawaii Technology Academy students inspired by public art at Kauaʻi Community College
Hawaii Technology Academy (HTA) Facebook post: “Kaua‘i's Artists in the Schools club recently visited Kauai Community College where students found inspiration in the incredible artwork that is placed throughout the campus as part of the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Art in Public Places program. It was a day full of creativity as they reflected on the meanings and emotions behind each piece.” View additional photos on the HTA Facebook page: facebook.com/share/p/bqmyPktX1vjGBHPb.

Hawaii Technology Academy on Facebook


Capitol Modern

October events at Capitol Modern

•   First Friday, October 4, 5:00 – 9:00 p.m.

•   Friday Night Tempo, October 18, 5:00 – 9:00 p.m.

•   Exhibits on display through November and December 2024

•   Museum calendar: CapitolModern.org/events
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CapitolModern.org


Calls for Artists, Jobs, Grants, and Other Opportunities
A list of federal, state, and other arts and culture grants/opportunities. Questions regarding a particular opportunity should be directed to the organization listed with the opportunity. Inclusion here should not be interpreted as an endorsement.

A longer list is on the SFCA website news page: sfca.hawaii.gov/jobs-calls-for-artists-grants-and-other-opportunities-october-2024.

•   Now hiring: Prince Dance Company (Hawaiʻi Island) seeks Program Director and ED Assistant. Part-time position. For more information, please go to the Prince Dance Company website: www.princedance.org.

•   Call for artists: Pacific New Media “16th Annual Contemporary Photography in Hawaiʻi Exhibition” Submissions due by December 2, 2024. Free Zoom session for help with entries November 12, 2024. Exhibition at Downtown Art Center (Honolulu) February 6-24, 2024. For details, please visit the Pacific New Media Lab website: pnmlab.com/2024/10/01/contemporary-photography-in-hawaii-2025-submissions.

•   2024 Hawaiʻi Regional Scholastic Art Awards Competition and Exhibit open to Hawaiʻi students grades 7-12, ages 13 and up. Submissions are due by December 15, 2024, through the Scholastic Art Awards portal. Hawaiʻi students grades 7-12 (ages 13 and up) are eligible to enter. Gold Key award-winning artworks will be displayed at Capitol Modern February 22 - March 22, 2024. For more information and to enter, please visit ArtAndWriting.org/regions/HI001A.

•   Waimea Arts Council “Square One, an All-Island juried art competition” entry dates October 1 – 13, 2024. For more information, please visit the Waimea Arts Council website: WaimeaArtsCouncil.org/2024-calls-for-art.

More jobs, grants, and other opportunities


Arts and Culture Calendar

This arts and culture calendar features SFCA grantees, partners, and Hawaiʻi state and local government programs and events. A longer list of events is on the SFCA website news page: sfca.hawaii.gov/ arts-and-culture-calendar-october-2024.

Questions regarding a particular program or event should be directed to the organization listed with the opportunity. Inclusion here should not be interpreted as an endorsement.

•   Hawaiʻi State Archives “For Love of the ‘Jumping Flea’: Celebrating the History of the ʻUkulele” Sunday, October 6, Orvis Auditorium (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Event will also be live-streamed on the Hawaiʻi State Archives Facebook page.

•   University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Commons Gallery “We Found Where the Sun Sets: work by John Pule” exhibit featuring John Pule. “An accomplished painter, printmaker, poet and writer, John Pule is arguably one of Oceania’s most celebrated artists. Pule is inspired by the history and stories of Niue and his own experiences of movement and migration. As a form of cultural cartography, Pule’s imagery often adapts the layout, patterning, and color palette of Hiapo, Niuean barkcloth, to present contemporary narratives of journeying within and beyond the Pacific.” Opening reception Sunday, October 6, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Exhibit open October 6 – 27, 2024. For more information, please visit the university website: hawaii.edu/art/we-found-sun-sets-john-pule.

•   Leeward Community College Hōʻikeākea Gallery “Bitter Sweet” exhibit featuring young women painters in Hawaiʻi. Opening reception Saturday August 31, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. Exhibit open through November 2, 2024. For more information please visit the gallery website: Leeward.hawaii.edu/hoikeakea.

•   Windward Community College, Gallery ʻIolani “The OGs: Photographers of the Silver Gelatin Process” showcasing the work of 11 influential Hawaiʻi photographers. Includes several photographs from the SFCA Art in Public Places Collection. Exhibit open through December 6, 2024. hawaii.edu/news/2024/08/19/photogs-at-windward-gallery-iolani/.

•   “HERE: Contemporary Queer Portraiture from Hawaiʻi” at The Manifest (a combination night club, cafe, and cocktail bar in downtown Honolulu) until October 27. A juror talk and award ceremony is scheduled for Wednesday, October 2, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.

•   East Hawaiʻi Cultural Center "Now Here We Are: Scott Groeniger" October 4 - November 27, 2024. Opening reception October 4, 6:00 p.m. ehcc.org/content/now-here-we-are-scott-groeniger.

More in the arts and culture calendar


SFCA in the media

KHON-2 News, September 18, 2024
Community invited to create pool art around the state capitol
“The new installation will feature glass artwork that resembles the ocean. “The original intention for the reflective pools around the Hawaii State Capitol was to represent all the different oceans and nearshore areas around the Hawaiian Islands, bringing them together like an amalgamation of different facets,” said artist Solomon Enos, selected to create the artwork. “The idea is to maintain that same intention; what was literally water to represent the ocean will now be glass to figuratively represent it.” View or read the full story on the KHON-2 News website: www.khon2.com/top-stories/community-invited-to-create-pool-art-around-the-state-capitol.
SFCA Board of Commissioners

SFCA Board approves all agenda items at September meeting

Image: Wayne Levin, “The Edge #101, Sand Clouds” archival pigment print photograph, 2024. Art in Public Places Collection of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Purchased from the “Wayne Levin: A Life in Photography Retrospective 1965-2024” exhibit at the Downtown Art Center (Honolulu).
The SFCA Board of Commissioners general meeting on September 11, 2024 approved and passed all agenda items, including the purchase of 10 artworks, the approval of a Bernice Akamine artwork loan to the Hawaiʻi Craftsmen annual exhibition, and an Art Acquisition Selection Committee approval for the “E Ola Ke Kahua o Ka Hana Kapa (The Foundation of Kapa Making Thrives/Lives” exhibit at Kahilu Theatre (Kamuela, Hawaiʻi Island).

Recent purchases and gifts are listed on the SFCA website: sfca.hawaii.gov/art-in-public-places-program/#recent-adds.

Approved exhibit visits are also posted to the SFCA website: sfca.hawaii.gov/art-in-public-places-program/#aasc-visits.

Upcoming SFCA Board of Commissioners Meetings

•   October 13, 2024: Art in Public Places Committee Meeting, 10:00 a.m.
Meeting schedule is also posted to the SFCA website calendar: sfca.hawaii.gov/events.

Decisions about grants, artwork purchases, and more are made by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA) Board of Commissioners. Meetings are currently being held virtually on Zoom, and the public is invited to attend. Appointed by the state governor, the Board of Commissioners oversees the Executive Director, provides input, and approves spending. Commissioners are volunteers and do not receive compensation for their duties.

Individuals may submit written testimony on posted agenda items in advance of the meeting via email to HawaiiSFCA@hawaii.gov or by mail addressed to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, 250 South Hotel Street, 2nd Floor, Honolulu, HI 96813. Individuals interested in signing up to provide oral testimony on posted agenda items at the meeting may submit their name, email, and phone number to HawaiiSFCA@hawaii.gov. Individuals may provide oral testimony at the meeting via the above-listed video conferencing link or by calling the above listed telephone number. Testimony presented during the meeting will be limited to three minutes each.
Agenda items for General Meetings may include approval of artwork acquisition recommendations and Acquisition Award Selection Committee (AASC) art exhibit visit recommendations.

Agendas and minutes are also posted on the SFCA Board of Commissioners page.

SFCA Office
The SFCA office is open by appointment. SFCA is operating in a hybrid model of teleworking where all staff are available by email or telephone. If you aren’t sure who to contact, email HawaiiSFCA@hawaii.gov or call (808) 586-0300 and leave a voice message, including your name and telephone number.

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The mission of the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts is to promote, perpetuate, preserve and encourage culture and the arts, history and the humanities as central to the quality of life of the people of Hawai‘i. HSFCA funding is provided by the State of Hawai‘i and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Hawaii State Art Museum

The Hawai'i State Art Museum is dedicated to presenting the largest and finest collection of works by Hawai'i artists that celebrate the diverse artistic and cultural legacy of Hawai'i.

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To promote, perpetuate, preserve and encourage culture and the arts, history and the humanities as central to the quality of life of the people of Hawai`i. HSFCA funding is provided by the State of Hawai`i and the National Endowment for the Arts. The HSFCA is administratively attached to the Department of Accounting and General Services.

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The musuem is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed State and Federal Holdays. Always free admission. For pre-recorded information call 586-0900.

The Hawai'i State Art Museum is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. For pre-recorded summary information on the museum, call (808) 586-0900. For current museum program information, call the HSFCA Art in Public Places Program at (808) 586-0305. To arrange an educational tour of the museum, call (808) 586-9958.


For information on the HSFCA; the Hawai'i State Art Museum; HSFCA grants, programs, and services; Hawai'i arts and culture events; and USA and worldwide arts opportunities, visit the HSFCA website, www.hawaii.gov/sfca.
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