FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works I | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Prose)

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

HAWAII

Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Honolulu, HI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of May Day is Lei Day! directed by artistic director Eric Johnson. Through community interviews and research about the traditions of a popular ritual, the play will commemorate the annual Hawaiian May Day, in which the giving and receiving of leis, parades, pageants, lei competitions, festivities, song and dance occur.

Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support The Taiko Path - A Complete Art Form, a series of presentations led by staff of the Taiko Center of the Pacific including master artist Kenny Endo. Activities will target underserved institutions such as the Hawaii Center for the Deaf and Blind and Habilitat, a drug rehabilitation center and cultural facility.

Kahilu Theatre Foundation
Kamuela, HI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Ukulele and Slack Key Institute. Activities will include performances, workshops, song transcription, classes, and outreach activities by artists, including Jeff Peterson, Alpion Hong, Jake Shimabukuro, and Victor Wooten.

Maui Arts & Cultural Center
Kahului, HI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of performances and community festivals. Project components will include workshops, storytelling events, film screenings, and performances by artists, including Martha Graham Dance Company, Shen Wei Dance, NEA Heritage Fellow Zakir Hussein, violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain, and Hawaiian musicians Brothers Cazimero, and ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro.

Taiko Arts Center
Honolulu, HI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the national tour of Uncommon Time: Taiko, Tabla and Timba. Taiko drummer Kenny Endo, tablas player Abhijit Banerjee, and Latin percussionist John Santos will create a series of compositions to present in concert at various venues in such states as California, Washington, Montana, Alaska, New York, Texas, and Massachusetts.

University of Hawaii at Manoa (on behalf of Mãnoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing)
Honolulu, HI
$7,500
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: $142,500

 
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