Hawaii State Foundation On Culture and The Arts - Exhibit now open: Hawaii Regional Scholastic Art Awards

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New exhibit at the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum

About the Exhibit

The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts invites you to the 57th Annual Hawaiʻi Regional Scholastic Art Awards exhibit at the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum.

Diamond Head Gallery (Second Floor)
Saturday February 15 - Saturday March 14, 2020
Free admission

Featuring 234 award-winning artworks by 177 Hawaiʻi students, grades 7-12.

“Creating art does more than just give the viewer something interesting to look at,” says Jonathan Johnson, Executive Director of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. “Engagement in the artistic process fosters creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication, often referred to as ‘21st century skills.’ Students who create art are expressing themselves and gaining an understanding of who they truly are. Having the Hawaiʻi Regional Scholastic Art Awards exhibit at the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum helps the SFCA carry out its mission to promote, perpetuate, and preserve culture and the arts in Hawaiʻi."
A full list of schools and students who received awards is available on the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts website: 2020 Hawaii Regional Scholastic Art Award Recipients.
About the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Presented by the nonprofit organization the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the 97th Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the country's longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for creative students in grades 7–12. This program year, nearly 340,000 works of art and writing were submitted to more than 100 Affiliate Partners across the country. 358 creative teens from 45 Hawaiʻi schools received regional honors, including Gold Keys, Silver Keys, Honorable Mentions, or American Visions & Voices nominations.

“We partner with an amazing network of Affiliate Partners who bring the program to life by recognizing and encouraging creative teens across America,” said Virginia McEnerney, Executive Director of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. “Over the course of the program’s nearly century-long history, we’ve learned that this recognition can be life-changing. For many creative teens, their regional Scholastic Award leads to recognition at the national level, where opportunities for exhibition, publication, and millions of dollars in scholarships await those who receive top honors.”

HONOLULU — The Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA) has announced the regional award recipients of the 2020 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

Title: Good Health Pharmacy
Category: Photography
Student: Zoe Stenger
Grade Level: 12
`Iolani School
Educator: Alison Uyehara Ngo
Award: Gold Key and American Visions Nominee

Title: Self-Portrait
Category: Painting
Student: Alwyn Matthew Agustin
Grade Level: 11
Mililani High School
Educator: Ruth Ravina-Koethe
Awards: Gold Key and American Visions Nominee

Title: A Vessel to Hold My Spirit
Category: Ceramics & Glass
Student: Addyssyn Oppegard
Grade Level: 12
University Laboratory School
Educator: Douglas Doi
Award: Gold Key and American Visions Nominee

Title: A Mother's World
Category: Mixed Media
Student: Karen Oh
Grade Level: 10
Kalani High School
Educator: James Mosher
Award: Gold Key and American Visions Nominee

Title: Peaceful Breeze
Category: Drawing & Illustration
Student: Rina Robin
Grade Level: 12
Kalani High School
Educator: James Mosher
Awards: Gold Key and American Visions Nominee
Higher resolution image files of these artworks, along with photos of the gallery, can be downloaded: SFCA Scholastic Exhibit Photos.

Student artwork images to be credited to the student. All other photos credit to State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

2020 Hawaii Regional Scholastic Art Awards
The Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA) has announced the regional award recipients of the 2020 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Presented by the nonprofit organization the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the 97th Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the country's longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for creative students in grades 7–12. This program year, nearly 340,000 works of art and writing were submitted to more than 100 Affiliate Partners across the country. 358 creative teens from Hawaiʻi received regional honors, including Gold Keys, Silver Keys, Honorable Mentions, or American Visions & Voices nominations, from local Affiliate Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, including:

5 American Visions Nominees
95 Gold Key Awards
139 Silver Key Awards
309 Honorable Mentions

A full list of 2020 regional award recipients is available online: 2020 Hawaiʻi Regional Scholastic Art Award Recipients.
http://sfca.hawaii.gov/blog/2020/01/15/2020-hawaii-regional-scholastic-art-award-recipients/

Since the program’s founding in 1923, the Awards have fostered the creativity and talent of millions of students and include a distinguished list of alumni including Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Philip Pearlstein, Sylvia Plath, Stephen King, Richard Linklater, Zac Posen, and Lena Dunham, all of whom received recognition in the Awards when they were teens.

For Gold Key works of art and writing in the Awards’ 29 categories, including architecture, painting, flash fiction, poetry, printmaking, video game design, and more, the opportunities for recognition will continue when the works are adjudicated again on a national level by a panel of leading creative professionals. National Gold Medalists will be announced in March 2020 and will be honored during a special awards ceremony at the world-famous Carnegie Hall in New York City in June 2020. All National Medalists are eligible for a wealth of additional opportunities such as inclusion in the Art.Write.Now.Tour traveling exhibition and The Best Teen Writing anthology. National Medalist poets are considered for the National Student Poets Program, the nation’s highest honor for young poets presenting original work.

A complete list of 2020 regional Gold Key Scholastic Art & Writing Awards recipients is available online at artandwriting.org.

57th Annual Hawaii Regional Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit

In celebration of this year’s regional recipients, an exhibit of American Visions Nominee, Gold Key, and Silver Key award winning artworks by 177 students is open now at the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum, through Saturday March 14, 2020. The Hawaiʻi State Art Museum is in downtown Honolulu on the second floor of the No. 1 Capitol District building (250 South Hotel St.) and is open Monday – Saturday from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Admission is always free. www.hisam.hawaii.gov
Instagram: @HawaiiStateArtMuseum
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Quotes:
“Creating art does more than just give the viewer something interesting to look at,” says Jonathan Johnson, Executive Director of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. “Engagement in the artistic process fosters creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication, often referred to as ‘21st century skills.’ Students who create art are expressing themselves and gaining an understanding of who they truly are. Having the Hawaiʻi Regional Scholastic Art Awards exhibit at the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum helps the SFCA carry out its mission to promote, perpetuate, and preserve culture and the arts in Hawaiʻi.”

“We partner with an amazing network of Affiliate Partners who bring the program to life by recognizing and encouraging creative teens across America,” said Virginia McEnerney, Executive Director of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. “Over the course of the program’s nearly century-long history, we’ve learned that this recognition can be life-changing. For many creative teens, their regional Scholastic Award leads to recognition at the national level, where opportunities for exhibition, publication, and millions of dollars in scholarships await those who receive top honors.”

About the Art in Public Places Program
The Art in Public Places Program (APP Program) was created to strengthen the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts’ capability to stimulate, guide and promote culture and the arts through the field of the visual arts. The APP Program seeks to: enhance the environmental quality of state public buildings and spaces throughout the state for the enjoyment and enrichment of the public; cultivate the public’s awareness, understanding and appreciation of visual arts in all media, styles and techniques; contribute toward the development and recognition of a professional artistic community; and acquire, interpret, preserve and display works of art expressive of the character of the Hawaiian Islands, the multicultural heritage of its people, and the various creative interests of its artists. Artwork in the Art in Public Places Collection can be viewed online in the Art in Public Places online catalog as well as the Public Art Archive (www.publicartarchive.org).

Location

Hawaiʻi State Art Museum
No. 1 Capitol District Building
250 South Hotel St.
Second Floor
Honolulu, HI 96813
www.hisam.hawaii.gov
Museum Hours
Monday - Saturday
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Closed Sundays and state holidays
(closed Monday, 2/17 for President's Day)

Admission is always free

808-586-9959 or 808-586-0300
hisam@hawaii.gov
Public Transportation
Several bus routes stop in front of or close to the museum, including routes #1 Kahala Mall/Kalihi Transit Center, #2 Waikiki-Diamond Head-KCC/School St, #3 Kapiolani Community College/Salt Lake, and E Country Express! Ewa Beach. For route maps and timetables, visit TheBus online or call (808) 858-5555.

Parking
There is no parking on site. Paid parking is available nearby at the Aliʻi Place building (parking ramp entrance at 1099 Alakea St), Kalanimoku Building, Kinau Hale/Department of Health, State Capitol Basement (metered parking only) Honolulu City Municipal Parking, and metered street parking in the area.

No. 1 Capitol District Building, 250 South Hotel St. (corner of S. Hotel and Richards St.)

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About the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum
Created as a venue to increase public access to the Art in Public Places Collection of the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA), the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum (HiSAM) displays artwork from the Art in Public Places Collection as well as from collaborations with the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education (DOE). HiSAM is operated as a part of the Art in Public Places Program by the SFCA, and is the only museum in the United States operated by a state government arts agency. The museum is an important resource for education and cultural enrichment, providing a learning laboratory for the SFCA’s arts education programs for DOE public and charter school students and teachers. The museum opened in the fall of 2002 on the second floor of the No. 1 Capitol District Building.

Museum Director Karen Ewald says “the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum is a space where people are welcome to experience contemporary art in Hawaiʻi in a variety of ways. It’s a venue for community engagement and connectivity on top of being an extraordinary contemporary art museum on the island of Oʻahu. HiSAM welcomes visitors of all backgrounds to view, socialize and interact in our galleries.”

About the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
The Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA) was founded in 1965 as the official arts agency of the State of Hawaiʻi. The mission of the SFCA is to promote, perpetuate, and preserve culture and the arts in Hawaiʻi. SFCA funding is provided by the State of Hawaiʻi and the National Endowment for the Arts. The SFCA is administratively attached to the Department of Accounting and General Services (Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes Chapter 9). Read more about the SFCA in the SFCA’s 2019 Annual Report and 2019-2023 Strategic Plan.
Search the Art in Public Places Collection Online
The Art in Public Places Collection can be viewed online and searched by artist name, artwork title, type of media, and more: click here to search the Art in Public Places Collection online catalog. You can also click here to search the Public Art Archive for permanently placed works in the APP Collection, as well as many other collections nationwide, or click here to use the Public Art Archives' Locate Public Art web app to find public art near you.

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The mission of the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts is to promote, perpetuate, preserve and encourage culture and the arts, history and the humanities as central to the quality of life of the people of Hawai‘i. HSFCA funding is provided by the State of Hawai‘i and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Courtesy of: Hawaii State Art Museum

Hawaii State Art Museum

The Hawai'i State Art Museum is dedicated to presenting the largest and finest collection of works by Hawai'i artists that celebrate the diverse artistic and cultural legacy of Hawai'i.

OUR MISSION
To promote, perpetuate, preserve and encourage culture and the arts, history and the humanities as central to the quality of life of the people of Hawai`i. HSFCA funding is provided by the State of Hawai`i and the National Endowment for the Arts. The HSFCA is administratively attached to the Department of Accounting and General Services.

HOURS:
The musuem is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed State and Federal Holdays. Always free admission. For pre-recorded information call 586-0900.

The Hawai'i State Art Museum is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. For pre-recorded summary information on the museum, call (808) 586-0900. For current museum program information, call the HSFCA Art in Public Places Program at (808) 586-0305. To arrange an educational tour of the museum, call (808) 586-9958.

For information on the HSFCA; the Hawai'i State Art Museum; HSFCA grants, programs, and services; Hawai'i arts and culture events; and USA and worldwide arts opportunities, visit the HSFCA website, www.hawaii.gov/sfca.

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