Celebrate the ARTS!

imageHawai‘i Arts Alliance announces the 2010 Alfred Preis Honoree, Marie McDonald. The Alliance will celebrate her contributions as one of Hawai‘i’s most respected kupuna in lei and kapa arts.

Marie McDonald has spent 50 years perpetuating the lei of pre-contact Hawai‘i, and through her love of the art, is a tireless proponent of teaching the importance of taking better care of our forests and other areas where the sources of beautiful lei grow. She is one of Hawai‘i’s best known authorities on the subject, and the author of the definitive “Ka Lei–The Leis of Hawai‘i,” and “Na Lei Makamae” co-authored with Paul Weissich. She has also researched Native Hawaiian kapa making and from her findings developed plant dyes similar to those used by Ancient Hawaiians.

Marie is devoted to educating Hawai‘i’s youth and has been a resource specialist for the Department of Parks and Recreation and an art teacher in North Kohala, Hawai‘i Island. Her 10-acre farm in Waimea on Hawaiian Homes Lands provides a bounty of material for the living cultural arts of lei and kapa-making.

Marie supported the creation of HOEA: Hawaiian ‘Ohana for Education in the Arts established “To increase the number, visibility and accessibility to Native Hawaiian Art 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 areas in Waimea in South Kohala, Hawai’i, and to transition an education structure into an accredited postsecondary School of Hawaiian Fine Arts.

Saturday, December 18, 2010
Twilight at Kalahuipua‘a
Talk Story Under a Full Moon
at the Eva Parker Woods Cottage on the Mauna Lani Bay
5:30 to 8:30 pm
Hosted by: Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows, Kohala Coast
and presented by Danny Akaka, Jr.

Sunday, December 19, 2010
A special luncheon for invited guests in honor of Marie McDonald
11:30 am to 2:00 pm
Kanu o ka ‘Āina Learning ‘Ohana, Waimea





Preis Packages





Preis Celebrant $1,000 (for two guests)
Charitable Tax Deduction $645

- Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and Bungalows - Garden View Room 2 nights
- $20 Spa credit per person
**Plus these Premiums
- 1 copy of Na Lei Makamae by Marie McDonald
- Historic Fishpond Tour compliments of Mauna Lani Resort, December 18
- Twilight at Kalahuipua'a at the Eva Parker Woods Cottage, Mauna Lani Resort, compliments of Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows, December 18
- 2 seats at December 19 Honors Luncheon
- Alliance Membership - one year
- Recognition in Program and all publications


ARTS Angel $2,000 (for two guests)
Charitable Tax Deduction $1,534

- Mauna Lani Ba Hotel & Bungalows - Ocean View Room 2 nights
- $30 Spa credit per person
**Plus Premiums noted above


ARTS Angel Special $3,000 (for two guests)
Charitable Tax Deduction $2,332

- Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows- Deluxe Ocean Front Room 2 nights
- $40 Spa credit per person
- Two rounds of golf (a $320 value)
- Food & Beverage Credit ($25 per room)
**Plus Premiums noted above

Tax-deductible contributions benefit the ARTS Fund and a portion will provide scholarships for Hawaiian ‘Ohana for Education in the Arts (HOEA) students.

For more information on sponsorships, call Stacy at Hawai‘i Arts Alliance at 533-2787.




Arts Excellence Schools and Past Winners

The Hawai’i Alliance for Arts Education is dedicated to promoting the arts as essential to the complete education of every child. With this in mind, in 1994 we established the annual Arts Excellence Awards,
to recognize exemplary schools that teach the arts as disciplines and integrate it into other subjects. These schools:

1. Teach standards-based fine arts lessons in music, dance, visual arts, and drama;
2. Integrate the arts into other academic subjects;
3. Are supported by administration, teachers, and parents who are committed to providing arts in education.

Every year the competition rotates between elementary, middle, and high school. This year, elementary schools are invited to apply for exceptional arts programs during the 2007-08 school year.
Public and independent schools are eligible to apply. Winners will receive cash awards depending upon sales of ARTS License Plates and contributions from arts organizations. For the past 14 years, the State Foundation on Culture and Arts (SFCA) has provided $3,000 each to three public schools receiving the award. We are hopeful that the funding will be in place this year. The board of directors of the Hawai’i Arts Alliance is committed to seeking funds to continue this award.

During the Alliance's benefit/concert, Celebrate the ARTS!, on October 4, 2008, awards were presented to the principals and teachers to honor their schools’ exemplary arts education program. The monetary awards were designated to support arts programs for the students. Arts Excellence Awards were established to recognize schools that teach the arts as disciplines as well as integrate arts into other core academic subjects. In 2008, Middle Schools were invited to apply for the Arts Excellence Awards. Congratulations to the awardees and the educators who perpetuate arts in the classroom!

Hawai‘i Preparatory Academy, Waimea, Hawai‘i
Innovations Public Charter School, Kailua Kona, Hawai‘i
Parker School, Waimea, Hawai‘i
Kalama Intermediate School, Makawao, Maui
Seabury Hall, Makawao, Maui
Kawananakoa Middle School, Honolulu, O‘ahu
Honolulu Waldorf School, Honolulu, O‘ahu
Washington Middle School, Honolulu, O‘ahu
Jarrett Middle School, Honolulu, O‘ahu

2005 Intermediate
William P. Jarrett
Maui Waena
Gov. Samuel Wilder King

Haleakala Waldorf School
La Pietra School
St. Ann’s School

(PHGF Award) Connections PCS

(HWS Awd - Public) Robert Louis Stevenson

(HWS Awd – Indep.) Mid-Pacific Institute School of the Arts
Punahou School, Case Middle School

2004 High
Education Lab. School
Henry Perrine Baldwin HS
Roosevelt HS
Mid-Pacific Institute School of the Arts
Sacred Hearts Academy
Seabury Hall

(PHGF Award) Leilehua High School
(Hon. Mention) Castle High School
Lahainaluna HS
Kanu o ka ‘Aina

2003 Elementary
Kula
Waiau
Noelani
Hanalei
Waiahole
Hanahau‘oli

2002 Intermediate
Halau Ku Mana PCS
King Kalakaua
Kawananakoa
Clearview Christian Girls School
Iolani
Maryknoll
Mid Pacific Institute

2001 High
Kahuku
Roosevelt
Waianae
Honolulu Waldorf
Mid-Pacific School of the Arts
Seabury Hall

2000 Elementary
Haiku
Kula
Ma‘ili
Noelani
Honolulu Waldorf
Le Jardin
Sacred Hearts

1999 Intermediate
Dole
Jarret
Moanalua
Haleakala Waldorf
Honolulu Waldorf
Mid-Pacific Institute School of the Arts

1998 High
Kauai
Roosevelt
Waianae
Sacred Hearts
Mid Pacific School of the Arts
Punahou
Honolulu Waldorf

1997 Elementary
Aikahi
Hanalei
Kuhio
Haleakala Waldorf
Honolulu Waldorf
Iolani

1996 Intermediate
Kawananakoa
Stevenson
Waimanalo
Laupahoehoe

1995 High
Kahuku
Parker
Pearl City
St. Francis

1994 Elementary
Barbers Point
Ernest Bowen De Silva
Kamiloiki
Honolulu Waldorf

Note: Schools listed in italics were honorees, up until 2002. After 2002 italics are independent schools.
Schools listed in bold were nominees for the 1999 National Schools of Distinction Award



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Alfred Preis Honor

As part of our national mandate we honor an individual for lifetime commitment to arts and arts education in Hawai`i. This year the Board of Directors of Hawai‘i Arts Alliance is hosting a special event to celebrate Marie McDonald and her lifetime achievements in arts and culture.

The Alfred Preis Honor is named after the founder of Hawai‘i Arts Alliance, and the first executive director of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. The Honor was established in 1982, and recognizes those who have demonstrated in word and action a lifetime commitment to the arts and arts education for all the people of Hawai‘i. Based on the idea of making art “mandatory, rather than allowable,” Preis authored the Art in State Buildings Law, which designates one percent of public building construction funds for art, and established the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Art in Public Places Program. Also, an architect in Honolulu, Alfred Preis’ most noteworthy design is the iconic U.S.S. Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor.

See list of past honorees (PDF) The_Alfred_Preis_Honor.pdf

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