Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 5, Number 4, 1 ʻApelila 1988 — Volcano Art Center Gets $20,000 Grant [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Volcano Art Center Gets $20,000 Grant

The Folk Arts programs at The Volcano Art Center was recently awarded a Nahonal Endowment for the Arts grant in the amount of $20,000, according to Robert Bush, the center's executive director.

"We are very pleased to receive this grant whieh will enable us to continue and expand upon our hula kahiko (ancient hula) performances and our Hawaiian music programs," he said. The grant will enable the group to start a series of hula kahiko performances on the hula platform that fronts the center's historic galleries in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. These performances start this month and continue through the fall, Bush said.

It will also fund major Hawaiian music performances details of whieh will be worked out by Maile Williams, the center's new program director who most recently was with the Interpret Hawaii program at Kapiolani Community College, Bush said. For more information on these programs, write The Volcano Art Center at Post Office Box 104,

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park 96718-0104.

An ancient hula dancer wears woven ti leaves and moves to the chant in a hula performance for The Volcano Art Center in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Boone Morrison photo