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Please become a member of the Hawai‘i Arts Alliance. Your small investment can make a BIG IMPACT.Join or renew your one- or three-year membership today! Download and submit the completed membership form, with your payment, below.
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Three-Year Membership
Sponsor: $100
Organization: $70
Individual: $40
Senior: $25
One-Year Membership
Sponsor: $35
Organization: $25
Individual: $15
Senior: $10
Dear Friend of the Arts,
A child’s education is not complete unless it includes the arts. Involvement in arts is linked to higher academic performance, increased standardized test scores, more community service, and lower dropout rates at all socioeconomic levels.
Hawai‘i arts education is at risk. The proportion of public school arts educators to deliver services to students is approximately 2,570 to 1. There are only an estimated 10-15 elementary music teachers in the entire state. In secondary schools throughout the state, the ratio of arts teachers to students averages about 150-180 to 1. Potential state budget cuts will further threaten the survival of a complete education for our youth.
Hawai‘i Arts Alliance’s work strives to bridge this education gap. In 2001, the Hawai‘i Arts Alliance advocated for a law mandating implementation of the ARTS FIRST Strategic Plan for statewide standards-based arts education. We developed and implemented the ARTS FIRST Toolkit for teaching artists and elementary classroom teachers. We provide training to our teaching artists who deliver standards-based arts education and arts integration with other core subjects. We provide a sustainable framework for arts education that includes an integrated curriculum with artistic mentoring and professional development.
With your help, we can continue to develop this critical work and be successful in building our community as a whole by enriching the lives and improving education and life experiences through art. Now, we need your help more than ever. Less than 4% of our operating support comes from individuals like you. The Alliance receives 53% of its funding from government grants. This acknowledges that our work has merit and is worthy of investment for the betterment of the community, but government grants are not sustainable, and in this economic climate, will continue to be greatly reduced.
Funding arts education is an investment that will have immediate AND long-lasting value. Unlike any discipline arts-specific organizations, the Alliance provides collective value to the arts sector as a whole by:
•leading and mobilizing key players necessary to advance the arts;
•acting as a central touch point to champion all arts and influence key shifts in arts resources;
•providing regular communications to all arts-related organizations and individuals;
•by serving on the national level as a member of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network, and as State Captain to Americans for the Arts, setting an example for arts education and advocacy for other states.
Please become a member of the Hawai‘i Arts Alliance. Your small investment can make a BIG IMPACT.
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Your support is crucial to our work, and much appreciated! You may make an online donation to the Hawai‘i Arts Alliance.
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Our History
Hawai'i Alliance for Arts Education, founded in 1980, is the only statewide private non-profit for the arts that belongs to the national Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network, a major program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC.
We represent 105 organizations and 300 individuals, a combined statewide membership of over 35,000.
We are recognized both locally and nationally for our achievements.
Board of Directors 2010-2011
Aurora Fruehling, ChairNola A. Nāhulu, Immediate Past Chair
Louise King Lanzilotti, Chair-Elect
Rachel Ogdie, Treasurer
Louise King Lanzilotti, Secretary
Marilyn Cristofori, CEO, Ex-Officio
Susana Browne
Gail Mukaihata Hannemann
Linda Johnson
John Overton
Anne Swayne Keir
Marcia Sakamoto Wong
Mike Walker
Lynne T. Waters
Marc Witter
Gordon Wood
Carol Yotsuda
Stanford B.C. Yuen
Thomas Bingham, Ex-Officio
Roberta Bishop, Ex-Officio
Vivien Lee, Ex-Officio
Kathryn Matayoshi, Ex-Officio
Christine Sorensen, Ex-Officio
Honorary Board
Linda Lingle
Governor, State of Hawai‘i
James R. Aiona, Jr.
Lt. Governor, State of Hawai‘i
Daniel K. Akaka
Senator, U.S. Congress
Daniel K. Inouye
Senator, U.S. Congress
Mazie Hirono
Representative, U.S. Congress
Marie McDonald
2010 Alfred Preis Honoree
Sam and Mary Cooke
2009 Alfred Preis Honorees
Edith and Keiji Kawakami
2008 Alfred Preis Honorees
Satoru Abe
2007 Alfred Preis Honoree
Beebe Freitas
2005 Alfred Preis Honoree
Clarence Lee
2004 Alfred Preis Honoree
Robert R. Midkiff
2003 Alfred Preis Honoree
George Ellis
2002 Alfred Preis Honoree
Henry Miyamura
2001 Alfred Preis Honoree
Ronald E. Bright
1999 Alfred Preis Honoree
Agnes Kalaniho‘okaha Cope
1998 Alfred Preis Honoree
Preis Honorees - In Memoriam
Nancy Bannick
2006 Alfred Preis Honoree
Nona Beamer
1996 Alfred Preis Honoree
Irmgard Aluli
2000 Alfred Preis Honoree
Masaru “Pundy” Yokouchi
1997 Alfred Preis Honoree
Invest In Imagination
Contribute to our Invest in Imagination Campaign!Help us Teach the ARTS, Build Community through the ARTS, and Promote the ARTS by being a lead contributor to this annual campaign with a contribution of $5,000, $2,500, or $1,000.
Arts for every child. When we act locally to ensure a whole education for our youth, we prepare them for a global future. The arts provide necessary tools to assist children to learn, to activate new ideas, to build literacy – and be better global citizens.
Hawai‘i Arts Alliance’s work bridges gaps in our education system and strengthens the learning environment by:
• Providing professional development for teachers in the arts through workshops and the ARTS FIRST Institute
(reaching 700-800 teachers every year)
• Training teaching artists to work hand-in-hand with educators in the classroom
(impacting more than 15,900 children in the classroom)
• Being a resource of supplementary video lessons in our Arts Education eCenter
Join our efforts to continue this valuable work!
Kennedy Center
ARTSEDGE - John F. Kennedy Center/National Arts and Education Network — supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience.
UPDATE - National Partnerships Newsletter from the Education Department of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
State Captain, Americans for the Arts
State Arts Action Network (SAAN)
SAAN Overview and ServicesHawai`i Arts Alliance acts as Hawai`i's State Captain for Arts Advocacy. The SAAN serves as the meeting place for statewide multidiscipline arts service or advocacy organizations to gather to discuss common issues. In order for an organization to be part of the SAAN, it must be a member of Americans for the Arts. To see the complete list of SAAN members, please see our roster. An elected council governs the network based upon the operating procedures. Two members of the Americans for the Arts staff, Director of State & Local Government Affairs Jay Dick and State & Local Government Affairs Coordinator Tim Mikulski serve as the staff members for the SAAN. Marla Musick, Alliance Communications Director, serves on the SAAN Executive Council.
The network meets in person twice each year, once in conjunction with Arts Advocacy Day in Washington, DC, and once at the Americans for the Arts Annual Convention. Additionally, the network hosts several professional development conference calls to discuss issues of interest and concern to its members. The network also has a special "SAAN members-only" section where this information is posted for members' exclusive use. Members of the network also receive a weekly email newsletter detailing state and local arts news and legislative tracking across the country.
SAAN Projects/Awards
The SAAN has also conducted independent research into areas of mutual interest. Under the auspices of Americans for the Arts, the SAAN has compiled a publication of the various statewide organizations and a treatise on what makes a strong and successful organization. This publication, The State of the Field: A Look at Statewide Arts Advocacy and Service Organizations, is provided to every network member and is available for purchase in the Americans for the Arts bookstore.Americans for the Arts, at the behest of the SAAN, has recently established the Alene Valkanas State Arts Advocacy Award. This award is presented to an individual who, at the state level, has dramatically affected the political landscape through their arts advocacy efforts. The award is named for Alene Valkanas. Widely seen as the preeminent authority on state arts advocacy, Alene is an original SAAN member and served as the first co-chair of the SAAN Council.
SAAN History
The network was formed on March 29, 2004, when Americans for the Arts announced that two previously independent national arts organizations, the State Arts Advocacy League of America (SAALA) and the National Community Arts Network (NCAN), had ratified an agreement to become part of Americans for the Arts.The joining together of these two organizations with Americans for the Arts is consistent with the bold five-year strategic plan recently developed by Americans for the Arts as a result of a $120 million gift from philanthropist Ruth Lilly. In that plan, created through a year-long planning process, Americans for the Arts identified the need for creating a statewide advocacy organization and a statewide service organization in every state. The State Arts Action Council and State Arts Action Network will strengthen and build arts advocacy and service infrastructure in the United States at the national, state, and local levels. Among other outcomes, it will help shape public policy, initiate effective advocacy campaigns, set research agendas, provide meaningful professional development, and provide peer-to-peer networking opportunities to emerging arts organizations.
Contact the Hawaii Arts Alliance
We welcome your stories, feedback and questions, and encourage you to share them by submitting this form. Send us:We look forward to hearing from you!
Hawai`i Arts Alliance
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 3948
Honolulu, HI 96812-3948
Location Address:
1040 Richards Street, Suite 301
Honolulu, HI 96813-2920
Phone:
808.533.2787
FAX:
808.526.9040
ARTS FIRST
ARTS FIRST was initiated when the Hawai`i State Legislature enacted ACT 80/99. This legislation named the arts as a core subject in Hawai`i prior to the No Child Left Behind national mandate. It also called for Hawai'i's major stakeholders in arts education to revise the State's Fine Arts standards and develop a strategic plan. In 2001, ACT 306/01 was passed into law formally naming the ARTS FIRST Partners and mandating the implementation of the strategic plan.
The goals of ARTS FIRST Hawai`i Strategic Plan for Arts Education are twofold:
1) To guarantee a comprehensive arts education based on the Hawai`i Content and Performance Standards for every elementary student in the State; and
2) To enable every high school student to achieve the standards in one or more of the arts disciplines by grade 12. The plan builds upon four objectives - Advocacy, Research, Teaching, Standards.
To achieve these goals, the ARTS FIRST Partners created an ESSENTIAL ARTS Toolkit for for K-5, generalist classroom teachers. The Toolkit provides a standards-based framework that integrates the arts into curriculum linked with other core subjects, mathematics, science, language arts, social studies.
National Legislation
Just moments ago, the U.S. House of Representatives approved their final version of the Economic Recovery bill by a vote of 246-183. We can now confirm that the package DOES include $50 million in direct support for arts jobs through National Endowment for the Arts grants. We are also happy to report that the exclusionary Coburn Amendment language banning certain arts groups from receiving any other economic recovery funds has also been successfully removed. Tonight the Senate is scheduled to have their final vote, and President Obama plans to sign the bill on Monday - President's DayA United Voice
This is an important victory for all of you as arts advocates. More than 85,000 letters were sent to Congress, thousands of calls were made, and hundreds of op-eds, letters to the editor, news stories, and blog entries were generated in print and online media about the role of the arts in the economy. Artists, business leaders, mayors, governors, and a full range of national, state, and local arts groups all united together on this advocacy issue. This outcome marks a stunning turnaround of events and exemplifies the power of grassroots arts advocacy.
We would like to also thank some key leaders on Capitol Hill who really carried our voices into the conference negotiation room and throughout the halls of Congress: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Appropriations Chairman Dave Obey (D-WI), House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Norm Dicks (D-WA), and Congressional Arts Caucus Co-Chair Louise Slaughter (D-NY). We also want to publicly thank President Obama for taking the early lead in recognizing the role of the arts in economic development. These leaders were able to convincingly make the case that protecting jobs in the creative sector is integral to the U.S. economy.
What's Next
As we wrap up our work on the Economic Recovery legislation, we wanted to share with you other upcoming legislative action that we are tracking:
Finalization by early March of the FY 2009 appropriations, which has been operating under a continuing resolution for the last five months.
Release of President Obama's first federal budget for FY 2010 is expected in late March/early April.
Hearings in the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee on the FY 2010 budget.
Hearings in the House Education & Labor Committee on arts in the workforce and arts education.
The 22nd Annual National Arts Advocacy Day conference on Capitol Hill on March 30-31, 2009.
Strategic Plan
Accomplishments
Talk Any Kine Festival Report
Talk Any Kine Festival ReportThe Talk Any Kine (TAK) Festival was designed as an informal community feedback and brainstorming session for those who live, work and play in
the Chinatown area. To provide more attractions, this festival also offered
live entertainment, art projects for the children, and free food. In organizing the festival, Marks collaborated with many important stakeholders in the community to help design and implement the event. These planning participants include:
• River of Life Mission
• EAH A Nonprofit Housing Corporation
• Weed and Seed
• Honolulu Culture and Art District
• Nu‘uanu Merchants Association
• Fort St Business Improvement District
• Pacific Gateway Center
• Chinatown Merchants Association
• New Life Church
• City and County of Honolulu
• Empower O‘ahu
• Gallery, restaurant and business owners
• Representatives of the residents at Kukui Tower and Kekaulike Housing
Partners
Awards and Recognition
The Hawaii Arts Alliance has received the following local and national recognition:
Animating Democracy grant, Americans for the Arts, 2004
Steps to Art grant, Americans for the Arts, 2000
Congratulatory Resolutions 2003: Hawai`i State Senate and House of Representatives
Keep it Hawai`i Award 2002: Hawai`i Visitors and Convention Bureau
Challenge America Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, 2002-2005
Arts Learning Grants, National Endowment for the Arts, 2003,2004, 2005
Kennedy Center Leadership, Invited presentor at national meeting, February 2006
U.S. DOE Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination 2003-2006
Research
Critical Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement
Written by Sandra S. Ruppert
Why is it so important to keep the arts strong in our schools? How does the study of the arts contribute to student achievement and success?
These and other important questions are addressed in a new booklet published by the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) in collaboration with the Arts Education Partnership (AEP). Critical Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement responds to the needs of policymakers, educators, parents and advocates for fact-based, non-technical language documenting the most current and compelling research on the value of arts learning experiences.
Critical Evidence updates and expands on the case made for arts education in NASAA's earlier collaboration with the Arts in Education Partnership, Eloquent Evidence: Arts at the Core of Learning, originally published in 1995. "Ten year's after its release," observes Critical Evidence author Sandra S. Ruppert, "the evidence is even more eloquent, and the need to demonstrate the link between the arts and student achievement has grown more critical." 2006, 20 pages.
View Critical Evidence website
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ARTS License Plates
Hawai‘i Arts Alliance license plates help raise funds for arts in Hawai‘i, and raise awareness throughout our state. Download and submit the completed form below to participate in the Arts license plates program, and receive your own Arts license plate!
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Press Releases
"ALA" (Art and Literacy for All)"ALA" Project Summary
Arts / Artists
ATP Teaching Artist RosterArtistic Teaching Partner (ATP) artists are highly qualified to engage K-12 students in standard-based integrated lessons in the fine arts. Artists and arts organizations on the ATP Roster have completed a rigorous application process as approved artists to participate in the Artists in the Schools (AITS) Residency Program.
The 2010 ATP roster: Teaching_Artist_Roster_2010.pdf
Member Benefits
SFCA Reports
About Us
Building community by enriching lives through the advancement, education and celebration of the arts in Hawaii. Why arts?
Research show us that motivation to learn, to stay in school and seek advanced education is significantly increased with a complete education that includes the arts. We cannot underestimate the power of the arts to transform lives. The Alliance advocates for arts education not just because there are impressive statistics about raising test scores or increasing earning power, but because when the arts become integral in all our lives, we are changed fundamentally
Teaching the arts
Ensuring that all the arts are a central part of the education of every child
Building community through the artsUsing the arts to improve the quality of life and create opportunities for positive growth, especially within disenfranchised communities.
Promoting the arts
Speaking out about the importance of the arts, demonstrating the value of the arts, and expanding access for all to a rich array of arts.
Hawai`i Arts Alliance is the DBA for the Hawai`i Alliance for Arts Education
reports (Creative Industry Studies)
Follow Arts policy on a national level by clicking on the Americans for the Arts logo. If you are a member of the creative community, we encourage you to sign up with Dun & Bradstreet through the Americans for the Arts website as part of their "sign up and be counted" campaign.Latest arts related news in Hawai`i
Hawai`i Creative Industries - An Economic Picture
This Hawai`i Creative Industries report offers a research-based approach to understanding the scope and economic importance of the arts in Hawai‘i. The Alliance serves as Hawai‘i’s “state captain” to the national arts advocacy group, Americans for the Arts, and received this latest data about our creative industries.
If you would like to have reports specific to your district, please call us for a copy
at (808) 533-2787.
Hawai`i Arts Alliance ARTS Survey
In order for the Hawai`i Arts Alliance to be your voice for th arts, we would like
to hear from you about your arts experience and areas of interest. Please take a moment to answer a few questions about the work of the Alliance by downloading and filling out the attached survey.
Recent Research/Literature:
Critical Evidence: How the ARTS Benefit Student Achievement
Written by Sandra S. Ruppert
Celebrate the ARTS!
Hawai‘i Arts Alliance announces the 2010 Alfred Preis Honoree, Marie McDonald, one of Hawai‘i’s most respected kupuna in the arts of lei and kapa-making. The Alliance will recognize her contributions to the arts of Hawai‘i at a celebration in December.Marie McDonald has spent 50 years producing the exquisite lei of Hawai‘i. For this long-standing commitment to Hawaiian arts, Marie was recognized as a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts. She is one of Hawai‘i’s best known authorities on the subject and author of the definitive “Ka Lei – The Leis of Hawai‘i” and “Na Lei Makamae,” co authored with Paul Weissich. In the process of researching these books she has brought to light the particular beauty of pre-contact lei. And through her love of the art she has become a tireless advocate for the preservation of the Hawaiian lands that provide the rare materials for these leis and other Hawaiian arts such as kapa-making. Marie has researched Native kapa-making, and from her findings has developed ancient plant dyes for her own magnificent pieces. An exhibit of these pieces was recently held at the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Marie has devoted more than 50 years to educating Hawai‘i’s youth, as a resource specialist for the Department of Parks and Recreation and as an art teacher in North Kohala on Big Island. Her 10-acre farm, Honopua, on Hawaiian Home Lands in Waimea is a model program and resource for community members. The land also provides the materials for her lei and kapa.
Most recently Marie supported the creation of HOEA: Hawaiian Ohana for Education in the Arts, “established to increase the number, visibility and accessibility to Native Hawaiian Arts and Artists,” and was kumu kapa during its first session in 2009. The long term vision for HOEA includes building a Community Art Center in one of the Hawaiian Home Land communities in Waimea, and its development into an accredited postsecondary School of Hawaiian Fine Arts.
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Staff
Marilyn CristoforiChief Executive Officer
Lei Ahsing
Education Director
Stacy Hoshino
Manager, Special Projects
Marla Momi Musick
Communications Director
Marcia Pasqua
Education Associate
Rich Richardson
Creative Director
The ARTS at Marks Garage
Sabrina Sanchez
Administrative Assistant
The ARTS at Marks Garage
Carlynn Wolfe
Database Administrator
Annual Reports
(PDF Downloadable format)
2009 Annual Report
2008 Annual Report
2007 Annual Report
2006 Annual Report
2005 Annual Report
Hawaii Creative Industries Report
Hawaii Creative Industries ReportThis report offers a research-based approach to understanding the scope and economic importance of the arts in Hawai‘i. The Alliance serves as Hawai‘i’s “state captain” to the national arts advocacy group, Americans for the Arts, and received this latest data about our creative industries.If you would like to have reports specific to your district, please call us for a copy at (808) 533-2787.
Bright Ideas for Community Change Report
Bright Ideas for Community Change ReportThe Bright Ideas award was developed as an incentive and follow-up to the Mayor’s Chinatown Summit. Ten winners were awarded a maximum of $4000 each for community change ideas contributing to the development of Chinatown and the emerging Arts District. The awards were funded by the Ford Foundation with matching funds from American Savings Bank, Bank of Hawai‘i, Central Pacific Bank, First Hawaiian Bank, and Hawai‘i National Bank. The effort, coordinated by the Hawai‘i Arts Alliance, sought entries from individuals, businesses, non-profit organizations and others, in the categories of affordable housing, youth, children & families, community identity, education, culture and the arts, cultural tourism, health, historic preservation, homelessness, neighborhood safety and beautification, recreation, transportation/access, and ideas for enhancing livability in the neighborhood.
Each awardee is expected to use funds to develop a full proposal for implementation support. They will be receiving technical assistance from Hawai‘i Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development (HACBED) that will also help connect each awardee to other financial and community development resources. The City & County of Honolulu is also committed to pursuing support and resources to help the very best ideas come to fruition.
Arts in the News
Inside the Alliance:Honolulu Advertiser (Leadership Corner)- CEO, Marilyn Cristofori
Honolulu Advertiser (Leadership Corner)- Marks' New Business Director, Erik Takeshita
Building Community Through the Arts
Honolulu Advertiser - First Friday Gallery Walk a true success
Honolulu Advertiser - Chinatown "Bright Ideas" Winners Selected
Honolulu Advertiser - Chinatown "Bright Ideas" Community Change contest
New York Times "Escapes" - The ARTS at Marks Garage
Americans for the Arts - King Kamehameha Statue Restoration
Teaching the Arts
Honolulu Advertiser - $1 Million US DOE Grant awarded to "Arts First"
Promoting the Arts
Group pushing Arts Center for Kaka`ako
List of Members
Members ListArts and Economic Summary Report
Arts and Economy Summary ReportArts and Economic AFTA Study
Arts and Economic AFTA StudyP.O. Box 3948 l Honolulu l Hawaii l 96812-3948 l Phone: 808.533.2787 l Fax: 808.526.9040 l arts@hawaiiartsalliance.org
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