VSA arts of Hawaii - Pacific
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VSA arts of Hawaii-Pacific Tel.: (808) 697-1202/227-3626 |
Wendy Kamai Mr. Chin Lee, Board of Directors Liaison Website: |
Organizational Profile:
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Full-time Staff: 1 |
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The mission of VSA arts of Hawai’i-Pacific is to promote awareness of the value of arts in the daily lives of people with disabilities and foster opportunities for the full inclusion and participation by youth and adults with disabilities.
Programming Partners and Other Funders:
University of Hawaii, Center on Disability Studies, Adult Mental Health (AMDH); Alu Like Inc.; ARC of Kona and Honoka’a; Business and Economic Development; Chase and Haines Fine Arts in Hilo; Coalition for a Drug-Free Lanai (CDFL); Da Space Gallery; Department of Health (DD/MR); Department of Labor One-Stops Centers; Department of Education (Adult Education); Hawaii Artists Cooperative; Farrington High School T-Shirt Theatre; Hawaii Arts Alliance; Hawaii Small Business Administration; Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts; Department of Health; Department of Human Services; Ira Ono Volcano Garden; Just Add Water LLC; Kahumana; Lanai Art Center; Lanai City Public Library; Lanai High and Elementary School; Mana Hawaii; Na Mea Native Books and Beautiful Things; National Arts and Disability Center; Office of Hawaii Affairs (OHA); Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA); Ohana Ola; PaintedPage LLC; Small Business Development Center Network (SBDCN); Social Security Administration; Square Cat LLC; State Department of Human Services; Volcano Arts Center
Educational Programs and Artist Residencies
Arts Mentorship
Professional artist-mentors provide after-school art instruction and mentorship for students K–12 up to five days per week. The program promotes high-level arts skills and products, resiliency; build significant mentoring relationships with adults who teach advanced art skills; generalizes art competency from the studio back to the classroom and community.
Professional Development and Technical Assistance
“Artists Mean Business” in Hawaii
Professional development studio intensives focusing on the flexibility of self-employment and emphasis on business and marketing skill development, benefits planning information on Medicaid and SSA qualified persons with mental illness and others who qualify for SSA.
Cultural Access and Inclusive Arts
Access the Arts and Culture
This programming promotes and offers sustainable, hands-on, arts-inclusive artist-educator training intensives. It also provides increased access to statewide arts and cultural resources through trainings and collaboration with state agencies and national arts-cultural specialists and professional arts with disabilities.
Public Awareness and Outreach
Creative Abilities Series
Through the “Creative Abilities” series, VSA arts of Hawai’i-Pacific works with its established and new statewide partners as title sponsors or cosponsor of a series of art events, existing annual gallery exhibitions and seasonal product sales, and at least 10 medium- and small-scale events to further expand public awareness beyond Honolulu to smaller neighbor islands with rural and remote communities.
(F) 202-429-0868