The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts was established by the

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in 1965 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 Hawaii". It allowed Hawaii to receive federal grants from the

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...

.History, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
/ref> In 1967, the Hawaii State Legislature enacted the Art in State Buildings Law, to be administered by the foundation. It mandated that 1% of the construction costs of new state buildings be set aside to purchase art.

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thus became the first state in the United States with a

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law. In 1970, the foundation and the state

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jointly established the Artists in the Schools Program, making Hawaii the first state to establish a statewide partnership between schools and professional artists. In 1989, the Art for State Buildings Law was expanded to establish the Works of Art Special Fund, a permanent fund for the purchase of art, also managed by the foundation. In the fall of 2002, the

Hawaii State Art Museum The No. 1 Capitol District Building, on the site of the former Armed Services YMCA Building, now houses the Hawaii State Art Museum and the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. History While they were both in the cabinet, under King ...

opened in the No. 1 Capitol District Building, at 250 South Hotel Street in

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, where the Foundation's offices are also located.

References

* Yoshihara, Lisa A., ''Collective Visions, 1967-1997, An Exhibition Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Art in Public Places Program, Presented at the

Honolulu Academy of Arts The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke. The museum has one of the largest single col ...

, September 3-October 12, 1997'', Honolulu, State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, 1997.

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