Guitarist Jason Uesato
Friday, Feb. 2, 2007, 5-9 p.m.
Hawai‘i State Art Museum, 2nd Floor
Free Admission

We invite you to see the art exhibitions of the Hawai‘i State Art Museum, which will be open for First Friday on February 2nd from 5 to 9 p.m. Guitarist Jason Uesato will perform in the Sculpture Gallery. Uesato composes and performs original songs. He specializes in a mixture of different musical styles including jazz, classical, blues, ragtime, folk, slack key, and Brazilian-jazz. He also performs fan favorites Classical Gas, The Girl From Ipanema, Peter Gunn, Manha De Carnaval, The Star Spangled Banner, and many more popular songs. For more information, visit www.hawaii.gov/sfca.

Second Saturday–Straw into Gold
Paper Weaving and Fiber Arts Demonstrations
Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Hawai‘i State Art Museum, 1st Floor
Free Admission

This month’s family event will feature paper weaving and fiber arts demonstrations by the Hawai‘i Handweavers’ Hui. Their talented artists have been turning rags into riches since 1953! Learn weaving techniques using paper, work on our table loom with fabric strips, and watch Hui members demonstrate hand spinning, loom weaving, card weaving, and felt making. Quick “family-friendly” tours are available upon request. Parking at Ali‘i Place is only $3 all day on Saturday! Enter the parking lot on the right side of Alakea Street between King and Hotel. For more information, visit www.hawaii.gov/sfca.

Mini Film Festival and Food Tasting
Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007, 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Hawai‘i State Art Museum, 1st Floor
Free Admission

HiSAM and Slow Food O‘ahu present a free mini film festival focusing on the consequences of wasteful practices and the sustainability of our resources. Turtle World is a silent short film that is a powerful allegory about the survivability of homo sapiens. In this highly acclaimed animated film, a lone sea turtle travels through space, her breath creating a whole new atmosphere. Affluenza diagnoses the "disease" of materialism and prescribes its antidote, simple living. A growing number of people are choosing "voluntary simplicity"... working and shopping less, spending more time with friends and family, volunteering in their communities, and enjoying their lives more. Paired with the films will be a mini food tasting by Ed Kenney, Chef/Owner of Town Restaurant. Parking at Ali‘i Place is only $3 all day on Saturday! Enter the parking lot on the right side of Alakea Street between King and Hotel. For more information, visit www.slowfoodoahu.com.

“Turtle World”

“Affluenza”

Hawai‘i Arts Alliance
Arts Excellence Awards
Application Deadline is
Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007

The Hawai’i Arts Alliance (HAA) invites high schools to apply for awards honoring exceptional arts programs conducted during the 2005-2006 school year. The HSFCA provides $3,000 awards to each of three public schools receiving the award. The HAA gives awards to three independent schools, and each of these schools will receive $500-$1,000 depending upon sales of ARTS license plates and contributions from arts organizations. The awards will be presented at Celebrate the ARTS!, an HAA benefit event to be held at the Hawai‘i Theatre Center in October. To get an application, call Stacy at 533-2787, email arts@hawaiiartsalliance.org, or visit www.hawaiiartsalliance.org.

Arts Excellence Awards at “Celebrate the ARTS!”

Artlunch Lecture
Keiko Bonk: Art & Mindful Living
Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007, 12-1 p.m.
Hawai‘i State Art Museum, 1st Floor
Free Admission

This month’s lecture features Keiko Bonk, an artist, educator, community organizer, former elected official, and a leader of the green and mindful living movement in Hawai‘i. Her work focuses on the protection of Hawai‘i’s unique natural and cultural environment through the promotion of diversified and sustainable true cost development, social justice, and long-range planning. Bonk will speak on the relationship between art and building a healthy and mindful society, arguing that beauty can act as a universal criteria for success in all endeavors in life. For more information, visit www.hawaii.gov/sfca.

Keiko Bonk gives art lecture at HiSAM.

See Our Art Exhibitions
Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Hawai‘i State Art Museum, 2nd Floor
Free Admission

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. Enriched by Diversity: The Art of Hawai‘i, is a semi-permanent exhibition featuring 132 works of art by 105 Hawai‘i-based artists from the Art in Public Places Collection. Inspirational themes in the installation revolve around rediscovering Hawaiian heritage, Asian roots, social consciousness, and cultural traditions.

Precious Resources: The Land & The Sea, is a new temporary exhibition that explores our connection to earth and water and the impact of our natural surroundings on the identity, daily lives, and cultures of Hawai‘i. Artists include Allyn Bromley, Robert Hamada, Kathleen Kam, Herb Kane, Wayne Levin, Hiroki Morinoue, Louis Pohl, Franco Salmoiraghi, and John Wisnosky. For more information, visit www.hawaii.gov/sfca.

"Enriched by Diversity: The Art of Hawai‘i"

"Precious Resources: The Land & The Sea"

Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Selected for Partners in Education
by John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts

Congratulations to the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, one of 14 new teams of arts organizations and school systems from across the nation, selected by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to participate in the Partners in Education program. The Institute promotes partnerships in communities across the nation between arts organizations and local schools, focusing on the development of education programs for teachers. The Honolulu Theatre for Youth (HTY) partner team includes the McKinley Roosevelt complex of the DOE. Representing HTY will be Louise King Lanzilotti, Managing Director, and Daniel A. Kelin, II, Director of Drama Education. Representing the DOE will be Dr. Raelene Chock.

“The arts must be at the heart of every student's learning experience,” says Darrell M. Ayers, Vice President of Education at the Kennedy Center. “The education of teachers is an essential component of any effort designed to affect the artistic literacy of America's young people. The Kennedy Center Partners in Education program lends opportunities to reach this goal.”

These new teams will join the 92 teams from 42 states and the District of Columbia already participating in the Partners in Education program, now in its 16th year. Since 1995, our state’s other team has been the Maui Arts and Cultural Center and the DOE Maui District, joined by the Kamehameha Schools Maui in 2004. At the Center, the Maui team has implemented Can Do! Days, teacher workshops, performances for students, and arts education Summer Institutes. Nearly 700 teachers have taken one or more professional development workshops on teaching in, through, and about the arts. A total of 242 Certificate of Study Awards were given to teachers who completed 32 hours of workshops. The Kennedy Center has supported three educational research projects which include Kula and Kihei Schools.

The new teams will attend the Partners in Education Institute, May 9-12, 2007. At the Institute, participants will examine the variety of educational offerings for teachers developed and refined at the Kennedy Center since 1976. The newly selected teams met the criteria for selection by effectively demonstrating the potential for the arts organizations and school system to initiate or expand programs for teachers and the stated commitment by both partners to collaborate on developing programs.

For more information about the Maui arts education program, visit the website at www.mauiarts.org or call Susana Browne at (808) 242-2787. For more information about the Honolulu Theatre for Youth drama education program, visit the website at www.htyweb.org or call Daniel A. Kelin, II at 839-9885.

Daniel A. Kelin, II, HTY Director of Drama Education, mentors fourth grade
teacher Susan Kaio and conducts a drama residency with her students at
Waiahole Elementary School.

Join the Friends of HiSAM

We invite you to join the Friends of the Hawai‘i State Art Museum (HiSAM). By simply joining, you can help maintain a free, public institution dedicated to the art and people of Hawai‘i. You can join by phone by calling 586-0305, or you can do a download from our website by clicking on Friends of HiSAM Application Form.

HSFCA Online Publications

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Visit the HSFCA Website

Visit our website www.hawaii.gov/sfca for news on HSFCA grants, programs, services, and events, plus information on Hawai‘i State Art Museum events and art exhibitions.

Hawai‘i Arts and Culture Calendar

Want to know what’s happening with the arts in Hawai‘i? Check out the Hawai‘i Arts and Culture Calendar section of our website. It lists current activities and events presented by Hawai‘i’s nonprofit arts and culture organizations. Click on these links to Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Literary Arts, Media Arts, and General Arts & Humanities.

Docent and Volunteer Opportunities

Help our visitors enjoy our museum! We need enthusiastic, outgoing people to assist museum visitors and help them appreciate our current exhibitions. We encourage you to volunteer if you have an interest or background in the arts.

Volunteers are needed in the following areas:
Gallery Attendant – Assist visitors in the galleries.
Information Desk Attendant – Greet visitors to the museum.
Docent – Conduct tours of the exhibition.
Education Assistant – Assist with education programs.
Special Events Assistant – Assist staff in event coordination.

You may download an application by clicking on: HiSAM Volunteer Application Form. To request an application by mail or for more information, please contact HiSAM visitor Services, via telephone at 586-9959 or via email at hisamvolunteers@gmail.com.