Awards and Recognition





US Dept. of Education: two research grants: most recently Arts and Literacy for All 2006-2010

National Endowment for the Arts: 1 of 5 fully funded for the Learning Interchange

National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Learning Grants: 2007, 2008, 2009

Americans for the Arts: restore original King Kamehameha sculpture in North Kohala, Hawai‘i Island

The Ford Foundation: The ARTS at Marks as 1 of 7 sites in the U.S. for Shifting Sands initiative

WESTAF advocacy awards - 2007 & 2008 to help request for release of state funds to 8 arts organizations

Celebrate the ARTS! Arts Excellence Schools and Preis Honor to an individual

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 presenter at national meetings, February 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

U.S. DOE Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination 2003-2006