Public Humanities Grants
Makaikai Mo‘olelo a Mele (Song and Story Tour)
Support for public programs that will engage the community, expose them to cultural arts, encourage dialogue, and ultimately enrich their life-experience through mo‘olelo and mele tours, as well as events and exhibits
Awarded to: Papahana Kuaola
Amount: $10,000
Rev. Williams Richards at History Theatre
Support for the development of the story of Reverend William Richards for a living history presentation at the dedication of his Hale Pili at Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives and on Maui where he is buried.
Awarded to: Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives
Amount: $5,450
Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West
Suport for the exhibition Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West.This exhibition will take a fresh look at mid-twentieth-century modernist abstraction through a reconsideration of its Asian American practitioners, with special focus on artists active in Hawai‘i.
Awarded to: Honolulu Museum of Art
Award: $10,000
Kaua‘i’s Architecture of the Mid-century Modern Era
Support for the research, writing and presenting of an educational program about the architectural history of Kaua‘i during the Mid-Century Modern period of 1939-1973 within a social and economic context.
Awarded to: Historic Hawai‘i Foundation
Award: $7,500
Preservation & Access Grants
Kalama Valley 2020 Oral History Project
Support for the preservation of the oral histories of the activists in the Kalama Valley struggle (1970–1971) and making these oral histories available to the broad public through a website and a publication.
Awarded to: University of Hawai‘i
Amount: $7,000
Digital Access: 90 Years of Honolulu Museum of Art
Support for the digitization and to make publicly accessible via Honolulu Museum of Art servers and UH’s eVols digital repository all issues of the publication of the Honolulu Academy of Arts, now the Honolulu Museum of Art, news bulletin and calendar from 1928 to 2017.
Awarded to: Honolulu Museum of Art
Award: $7,000
Kokua Hawai‘i Oral History Project
Support for the preservation of primary source materials about the Hawaiian Renaissance from members and associates of Kokua Hawai‘i—people who actually shaped the social movement of that era. Also, the resources will be available through public libraries, the Internet and the University of Hawai‘i Department of Ethnic Studies.
Awarded to: Hawai‘i’s People Fund
Award: $7,000