Hawaii Museums Association

07/23/2021

: The next Hawaiian Mission Houses' Archives and Inquiry Speaker Series will be on August 24 – 1821 Mission House Bicentennial – Paul F. Morgan of Suzuki-Morgan Architects

Paul F. Morgan of Suzuki-Morgan Architects will present on the evolution of the 1821 Mission House; starting with the construction and use as a communal mission station, into its use as a private residence and finally its transition into a museum exhibit. Focus will be on the additions & demolitions with their uses in the mission period, the various renovations during its life as a private home, and preservation efforts during the final museum exhibit period touching on changes in preservation thinking over time.
The talk will be livestreamed and be available afterwards via the Hawaiian Mission House website www.missionhouses.org.The Hawaiian Mission Houses Archives are open to the public , including free digital access to over 100,000 pages of historical documents and pictures at https://hmha.missionhouses.org/

Archives and Inquiry is accessible via the following zoom link:

Zoom link for Archives and Inquiry
Launch Meeting - Zoom
Meeting ID: 837 7810 1516
Passcode: Archives

: The next Hawaiian Mission Houses' Archives and Inquiry Speaker Series will be on August 24 – 1821 Mission House Bicentennial – Paul F. Morgan of Suzuki-Morgan Architects

Paul F. Morgan of Suzuki-Morgan Architects will present on the evolution of the 1821 Mission House; starting with the construction and use as a communal mission station, into its use as a private residence and finally its transition into a museum exhibit. Focus will be on the additions & demolitions with their uses in the mission period, the various renovations during its life as a private home, and preservation efforts during the final museum exhibit period touching on changes in preservation thinking over time.
The talk will be livestreamed and be available afterwards via the Hawaiian Mission House website www.missionhouses.org.The Hawaiian Mission Houses Archives are open to the public , including free digital access to over 100,000 pages of historical documents and pictures at https://hmha.missionhouses.org/

Archives and Inquiry is accessible via the following zoom link:

Zoom link for Archives and Inquiry
Launch Meeting - Zoom
Meeting ID: 837 7810 1516
Passcode: Archives

07/12/2021

SFCA ARP Grants for Individuals

: The SFCA American Rescue Plan (ARP) Recovery Grant supporting eligible Hawaiʻi artists and cultural practitioners opens August 1, 2021 and closes September 30, 2021. The grant request amount is $7,225 and there is no match requirement. The recovery grant supports salaried staff positions, fees for artists and contractual personnel, facilities expenses, costs associated with the health and safety supplies for staff and/or visitors and audiences (Personal Protective Equipment and cleaning supplies), and select marketing and promotion costs.⁠

https://sfca.hawaii.gov/grants/sfca-arp-grants-ind/

< return to grants The State Foundation on the Culture and the Arts will utilize American Rescue Plan (ARP) funding to administer two grants benefiting the state’s arts community: one for nonprofit…

07/12/2021

Hawaii Museums Association updated their address.

Hawaii Museums Association updated their address.

07/02/2021

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: From WESTAF:
We are pleased to announce that the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Fund for Organizations will begin accepting applications on Thursday, July 1! Awards will be made to eligible arts and culture organizations throughout the 13-state WESTAF region (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawai’i, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming), with at least one grant awarded in each state.

The program will prioritize organizations most at risk from the effects of the pandemic, with individual grant disbursements of around $50,000 each.

Aligning with the National Endowment for the Arts’ commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, and in furthering shared respect for the diverse beliefs and values of all individuals and groups, the program will focus on providing funding to organizations that serve and/or are led by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), as well as those that support the independence and lifelong inclusion of people with disabilities.

LEARN MORE: https://westafarp.gosmart.org

06/15/2021

Reopening Strategy - Tier 4 — One Oahu

: Oahu Reopening Strategy - Tier 4
https://www.oneoahu.org/reopening-tier4

06/15/2021

ZOOM LINK:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85071401884?pwd=NUhqRG1XYk55S2s4Z0VMOEpWaGpOdz09
Meeting ID: 850 7140 1884
Passcode: Archives

ZOOM LINK:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85071401884?pwd=NUhqRG1XYk55S2s4Z0VMOEpWaGpOdz09
Meeting ID: 850 7140 1884
Passcode: Archives

06/14/2021

: 10 Years of Cemetery Pupu Theatre!
#historytheatre #livinghistory #hawaiihistory #hawaiianmissionhouses #cemeterypuputheatre #oahucemetery

: 10 Years of Cemetery Pupu Theatre!
#historytheatre #livinghistory #hawaiihistory #hawaiianmissionhouses #cemeterypuputheatre #oahucemetery

06/14/2021

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: 2021 WESTAF American Rescue Plan (ARP) Fund for Organizations

With support from the National Endowment for the Arts (Arts Endowment), the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) will manage the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Fund for Organizations. WESTAF ARP is a competitive grant program that provides general operating support to arts and cultural organizations in the West that are most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to notify WESTAF of their intent to apply for a grant under WESTAF ARP. We strongly encourage each potential applicant to notify us of the applicant’s intent to submit an application by completing the brief information form.

Applicants that do not submit a notice of intent to apply may still apply for funding; applicants that do submit a notice of intent to apply are not bound to apply or bound by the information provided.

In order to create an Intent to Apply for this specific fund (even if you have used this system for a different grant in the past), please create a profile at the link below.

Questions? Please contact WESTAF at [email protected].

05/25/2021

: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 2021 (ET)
NASA Notice of Funding Opportunity Reminder! NASA Teams Engaging Affiliated Museums and Informal Institutions (TEAM II) is now accepting proposals for two opportunities, including the new Community Anchor Awards for TEAM II (CAAT) to support institutions in establishing themselves as a local NASA STEM informal education community resource. Selected parties will offer NASA education directly aligned with space exploration, aeronautics, space science, earth science, or microgravity. Eligible proposers include U.S. non-profit science museums, planetariums, youth-serving organizations, and libraries. Proposals due June 17 and July 19, 2021. Proposers to the STAT Program Element Appendix are advised that the optional notice of intent (NOI) deadline has been extended to 11:50 pm ET June 2, 2021. No NOI is requested for CAAT proposals. Full information here.

Proposals from cultural/historical institutions that focus specifically on populations that are underserved in STEM, and have a STEM programming component, are encouraged to apply if they are able to self-certify that their organization qualifies or meets one of the definitions of museum, youth-serving organization, or library, as described in the eligibility section of the NOFO.

05/25/2021

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: There are still funds available, so apply soon! https://www.svograntportal.sba.gov/s/

SHUTTERED VENUE OPERATORS GRANT

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05/25/2021

POW! WOW! Celebrates 10 Years at the Bishop Museum - Hawaii Magazine

: “The conversation started two years ago, we really wanted to encourage interest to make those connections between Hawaiʻi’s natural and cultural history with local contemporary art,” says Brandon Bunag, acting vice president of public programs and director of education at Bishop Museum. “Art is a form of communication, art is a form of telling and transmitting stories, and that’s what we do at Bishop Museum.”

https://www.hawaiimagazine.com/pow-wow-celebrates-10-years-at-the-bishop-museum/

Putting a city street into a museum is about as hard as you think it would be, but the folks at Pow! Wow! and Bishop Museum have done it. All it took was

05/24/2021

Don’t miss these #AAM2021 Sessions

Don’t miss these #AAM2021 Sessions

Why shouldn’t you miss 2021 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo? Let our speakers tell you. Featured in this video: Grace Stewart, Nicole Sanguinetti, Ann Friedm...

05/06/2021

A new approach to repatriation - Museums Association

: Across the pond:

"Over the past few months, Museums Journal has been following the progress of two groundbreaking UK museum projects that are approaching decolonisation and repatriation in new ways. Along the way, it has become clear that their work may provide fresh insights on some of the existential questions facing the sector."

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/features/2020/11/a-new-approach-to-repatriation/

The two museums that are nurturing relationships with communities of origin

05/05/2021

Bone Rooms — Samuel J. Redman

: “How did our museums become great storehouses of human remains? What have we learned from the skulls and bones of unburied dead? Bone Rooms (by Samuel J. Redman) chases answers to these questions through shifting ideas about race, anatomy, anthropology, and archaeology and helps explain recent ethical standards for the collection and display of human dead.”—Ann Fabian, author of The Skull Collectors

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674660410

In the bone rooms of the Smithsonian Institution and other museums in the late nineteenth century, a scientific revolution was unfolding, as collectors engaged in a global competition to recover the best human skeletons, mummies, fossils. Study of these remains led to the discrediting of racial theo...

04/18/2021

Our 2021 conference was a success! Mahalo to all who contributed and made it possible. Our speakers were phenomenal and we look forward to furthering the discussion on how we can continually make our Hawaiʻi institutions more accessible to our diverse communities.

Our 2021 conference was a success! Mahalo to all who contributed and made it possible. Our speakers were phenomenal and we look forward to furthering the discussion on how we can continually make our Hawaiʻi institutions more accessible to our diverse communities.

04/15/2021

Hawaii Museums Association

CONFERENCE KEYNOTE: Friday, April 16, 9:10 - 10:30am

https://hawaiimuseums.org/hmacon2021/

Our keynote for this year's conference is Rebecca McGinnis, Senior Managing Educator for Accessibility at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rebecca and her colleagues are internationally recognized for their pioneering programs for people with disabilities, especially for blind and partially sighted people. These include Seeing Through Drawing, an innovative class for people who are blind or partially sighted led by teaching artists with various levels of vision; as well as Met Escapes, for people with dementia and their care partners; and Met Signs, a training program for Deaf people to become museum guides and regular programming in American Sign Language. Awards include the Lighthouse Guild’s Good Neighbor Award (2016), the American Foundation for the Blind’s Access Award (2014), the LEAD Award for Excellence in Accessibility Leadership (2011), and the American Council of the Blind Achievement Award in Audio Description for Museums (2011). Rebecca’s publications include “Islands of Stimulation: Perspectives on the Museum Experience, Present and Future” in The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space, ed. Nina Levent and Alvaro Pascual Leone, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. Rebecca co-convened with Art Beyond Sight the Multimodal Approaches to Learning conference (2005, 2007, 2009, 2012) and was a founding member and co-chair of the Museum Access Consortium (2000-2012). She is adjunct faculty in Johns Hopkins University’s Museum Studies MA program, where she teaches Accessibility in the Museum. She holds MAs in Art History and Museum Studies and is a doctoral candidate in Cognitive Psychology at Teachers College Columbia University.

Thank you for your interest in participating in HMA’s 2021 Annual Conference. We will continue updating this page as we confirm speakers and other activities.

04/14/2021

Hawaii Museums Association

CONFERENCE SESSION: On the Horizon of 2021: Future Projects & Directions, Saturday, April 17, 2:15 - 3:15pm

https://hawaiimuseums.org/hmacon2021/

2020 has significantly changed how museums and like minded organizations operate their businesses. A new normal has emerged as organizations evaluate how their patrons can access their institutions safely into 2021 and beyond. What does access look like in this new normal? How have Hawaiiʻs organizations adapted to these changes? What projects are on the horizon and what future direction are these organizations navigating towards?

This panel features short videos produced by HMA members and Hawaiʻi’s museums and cultural centers, highlighting the important services that our island institutions continue to provide to our respective communities amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thank you for your interest in participating in HMA’s 2021 Annual Conference. We will continue updating this page as we confirm speakers and other activities.

04/14/2021

Hawaii Museums Association

CONFERENCE SESSION: Access During A Pandemic, Saturday, April 17, 1:00-2:00pm

https://hawaiimuseums.org/hmacon2021/

This panel will feature staff from Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives and Bishop Museum. They will discuss the considerations, adaptations, and transitions that occurred in programing and access during the course of the pandemic in 2020. The Hawaiian Mission Houses (HMH) expanded its digital footprint during the pandemic while also creating lasting content that can be repurposed into other aspects of virtual or online programming. HMH created “Connecting with History” a daily feature on the HMH website and social media. Through videos, at-home activities, use of archival materials and images, the HMH staff found new modes of engaging audiences and providing access to the historic houses and site during the pandemic.

Thank you for your interest in participating in HMA’s 2021 Annual Conference. We will continue updating this page as we confirm speakers and other activities.

04/13/2021

Hawaii Museums Association

CONFERENCE SESSION: Philanthropy Work—From Grantmakers to Grantseekers, Saturday, April 17, 10:45 - 11:45am

https://hawaiimuseums.org/hmacon2021/

The philanthropy sector can be mysterious and intimidating and those professionals, the grant writers and administrators, who interact with grantmakers play integral roles as major fundraisers so their museums or learning and visitor centers can fulfill their missions and successfully operate. During this roundtable, philanthropy experts will discuss the business of grants, recent trends and initiatives in equitable grantmaking, the grant climate in Hawai‘i, among other topics. This session is ideal for beginners and experienced professionals.

Thank you for your interest in participating in HMA’s 2021 Annual Conference. We will continue updating this page as we confirm speakers and other activities.

04/13/2021

Hawaii Museums Association

CONFERENCE SESSION: Digital Access through Apps and Other Platforms, Saturday, April 17, 9:00-10:00am

https://hawaiimuseums.org/hmacon2021/

Technology that brings us together virtually has grown by leaps and bounds during the current pandemic crisis. Many applications that were in heavy use in specialized fields came to the forefront of public consciousness or became the focal point of public connection once physical presence required limitation. This panel taps into some of those technologies and how they have been utilized by our fellow institutions.

Thank you for your interest in participating in HMA’s 2021 Annual Conference. We will continue updating this page as we confirm speakers and other activities.

04/12/2021

Hawaii Museums Association

CONFERENCE SESSION: Removing Financial Barriers with Museums for All, Friday, April 16, 2:15 - 3:15pm

https://hawaiimuseums.org/hmacon2021/

Museums for All is a national, branded access program that encourages individuals of all backgrounds to visit museums regularly and build lifelong museum habits. It is open to participation by any type of museum. The program provides an easy-to-implement structure and the ability for participating museums to customize their implementation. The Museums for All program has helped facilitate over three million visits to those who might not otherwise be able to afford to visit. In this session, attendees will learn how the program operates and what is involved in joining and participating. They will also gain a firsthand perspective from a participating museum.

Find out how your museum can get involved, and what it’s like once you are.

Museums for All is an initiative of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a federal agency based in Washington, DC. The initiative is administered by the Association of Children’s Museums through a cooperative agreement with IMLS.

Thank you for your interest in participating in HMA’s 2021 Annual Conference. We will continue updating this page as we confirm speakers and other activities.