Quarterly Membership Newsletter of the Hawai‘i Museums Association HMA President’s Report by Stacy Hoshino Overall 2011 was an extraor- statewide project that was fund- dinary year for HMA - our ed by the Institute of Museums membership, institutional mem- and Library Services, and the bers, and board of directors all massive Western Museums came together to fulfill the mis- Association Annual Meeting sion of HMA. and Conference that descended I am not one to give the upon in September. excuse “I was busy,” but I had Nühou is slowly getting back to break that personal rule and on track and soon you will be say it because 2011 was a very able to read it online, also, be busy year for the organization. sure to head to www.- Nühou all but ceased produc- museums.org and sign-up to tion for most of last year, but receive emails to keep in touch. HMA Offers Critique of New Exhibit HMA went into overdrive with On behalf of the Board of several well-attended work- Directors, thank you for your Hawai‘i Museums respond & describe the chal- shops, the completion of a continued support! Association is pleased to lenges they faced. View the gal- announce a Critique of Pearl leries from 4:00 to 6:00 pm. HCH Grants for Hawai‘i Harbor’s WWII Valor in the The critique session will start at Hawai‘i Council for the are HMA institutional mem- Pacific National Monument 6:00 to 7:00 pm in the Pearl Humanities (HCH) encourages bers. For more details on grants Galleries Friday, March 23, Harbor Memorial Theater. Free HMA members to apply for awarded go to www. 2012. with limited seating; RSVP via grants to fund programs and hihumanities.org In December 2010, the email at hawaiimuseums preservation projects that have opened [email protected]. Regular Grants a humanities context. HCH sup- its new exhibition at the Pearl $5,000- University of Hawai‘i Panelists include: ported 25 projects statewide in Harbor Visitor Center. Included , Historic Costume Tom Klobe 2011, awarding $110,827 to in the displays on the 1941 Museum. Founding Director, University grant recipients including the Japanese attack are the voices $5,000- Mission Houses of Hawai‘i Art Gallery museums, learning centers, of Hawai‘i residents. Museum. Barbara Moir libraries and archives. For This critique will examine the $4,000- Hawai‘i Museums Education and Operations more information visit their exhibit from different perspec- Association Curator, Lyman Museum website, or email Stacy tives— museum professionals $3,800- Historic Hawai‘i Paul DePrey Hoshino at shoshino@hihu- will offer evaluations while Foundation. Superintendent, WWII Valor in manities.org. The next deadline National Park Service staff $2,300- Honolulu National Monument is October 31, 2012. Following Arts. Eileen Martinez is a selection of last year’s Inside Chief of Education & grant recipients, many of whom continued on page 3 Interpretation, WWII Valor in 2011 WMA Convention the Pacific National Monument Hightlights & Photos Save-the-Date Moderator: Karen Kosasa Monday, May 14, 2012 HMA Annual Director, Museums Studies HMA Annual Members Meeting Membership Meeting Graduate Certificate Program at the Honolulu Museum of Art & more... formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts HMA Annual Members Meeting Websites for Grants & Resources HMA Board Institute of Museum & Library Services www.imls.gov Treasurer Celeste Heritage Preservation www.heritagepreservation.org Ohta gives outgoing National Endowment for the Humanities www.neh.gov Board Director Bron National Endowment for the Arts www.nea.gov Solyom a lei to acknowledge her American Assoc. for State & Local History www.aaslh board service. Western Museum Association www.westmuse.org Association of American Museums www.aam-us.org Hawai‘i Museums Association www.hawaiimuseums.org Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities www.hihumanities.org

HMA held its Annual Library Services, and running Members Meeting on Sunday, several workshops. Celeste September 25, 2011 at the Ohta, Board Treasurer, present- Nühou is the quarterly newsletter of the Hawaiÿi Museums Association Hawai‘i Convention Center ed HMA’s state of finances, which carries articles of professional interest to HMA members. with over 40 members attend- and revenue and expenditures Submissions to Nühou are welcome, subject to editing, and should be ing. Usually held in May, for the year. received c/o HMA at the above address by January 20, April 20, July 20, and October 20. Photos and artwork are welcome and encouraged. HMA HMA’s board directors voted to Retiring Board Director-at- reserves the right to accept, reject and edit all submissions. postpone the members meeting Large Bron Solyom and HMA until September to coincide Vice President Kippen de Alba HMA Board of Directors 2011-2012 with WMA’s conference. Chu were acknowledged and President: Stacy Hoshino, Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities An overview of the year was thanked for serving full terms. Vice President: Neida Bangerter, Maui Arts & Cultural Center given by Board President Stacy Four new board directors were Secretary: Cynthia Low, Honolulu Academy of Arts Hoshino as well as plans and approved, Shari Tamashiro, Treasurer: Celeste Ohta, Honolulu Academy of Arts Kaua‘i Director: Jane Hoffman, Kïlauea Point Natural History Assn goals for the next year. Overall, Natalie Aczon, Kelly Ota, and Maui Director: Neida Bangerter, Maui Arts & Cultural Center HMA had a very productive Jane Hoffman, O‘ahu Director: Sharon Tasaka, University of Hawai‘i Art Gallery year, working to bring the Finally, to close out the meet- Hawai‘i Director: Barbara Moir, Lyman Museum & Mission House WMA Annual Meeting to ing, members were thanked for Directors-at-Large: Natalie Aczon, Whole Foods Market Kahala Honolulu, also, managing a their continued involvement in Kelly Ota, Daughters of Hawai‘i / Queen Emma Summer Palace project that was funded by the HMA programs and for their Shari Tamashiro, Kapi‘olani Community College Library Institute of Museum and ongoing and loyal support. Michael Thomas, Joseph F. Rock Herbarium, U.H. Mänoa Past President: Peter Van Dyke, Amy B.H. Greenwell Connecting to Collections Ethnobotanical Garden, Continued from page 4 on exercise in salvaging wet WMA Representatives: Kippen de Alba Chu and Inger Tully Project consultant Barclay materials. “Are You Ready?” HMA Communications Ogden, head of UC Berkeley was presented the day after the Social Media Manager: Rebeccah Tresser, University of Library Preservation second statewide meeting, on Hawai‘i at Mänoa Department, and one of the top April 8, 2011. Membership Officer: E. Tory Laitila, Mayor’s Office on Culture & the preservation experts in the Where do we go from here? Arts nation, facilitated both the first Hawai‘i Museums Association Nühou Newsletter Editor: Chris Faye, Kaua‘i Museum statewide collections meeting in will be using the results from HMA Webmaster: Rich Tully, Websites Hawai‘i May 2010, and the second this project to pursue some of The Hawaiÿi Museums Association is a nonprofit corporation dedicated meeting held in April 2011. the great ideas identified during to communication and cooperation among the staffs and supporters of Lynn Davis designed the survey the statewide meetings. The Hawaiÿi’s museums. Membership, subject to approval by the HMA instrument, incorporating feed- report can be viewed in its Board, is open to all individuals, educational institutions, historical back from the project consult- entirety at www. organizations and museums interested in the growth and development of the museum professionals and its activities in the State of Hawaiÿi. ant, the Leadership Group and hawaiimuseums.org. Individual memberships: Students $15, Out-of-State $20, Single $35 per the Partnership Group. year, Dual $65. For institutional rates and applications please refer to the At the April 2011 meeting, a website at www. hawaiimuseums.org. Complete and mail with payment compilation of survey results to: Hawaiÿi Museums Association, P.O. Box 4125, Honolulu, Hawaiÿi was reviewed, and several areas 96812-4125. stood out as needing additional attention from cultural institu- Go Green in 2012 tions. Members, we need your email addresses to send you your The year-long project includ- printable, digital copy of Nühou. Archived issues of past ed three WESTPAS disaster newsletters will be posted on our website so that you don’t preparedness workshops. The One of the break out sessions generating great ideas. miss out on news around the state. Email addresses and first pair last summer included changes can be directed to [email protected]. developing a plan and a hands- Western Museums Association Annual Meeting in Honolulu Top, left: country and region. After 26 A traditional concurrent panel sessions and Hawaiian ‘awa affinity lunches, participants (kava) ceremony enjoyed an evening at Bishop to officially open Museum. and welcome all Following days of sharing the sponsoring ideas and meeting new friends, organizations the conference came to a bitter- and their mem- sweet close. Overall many peo- bership. ple were happy to experience a Right: part of Hawai‘i and were Receptions and impressed with how rich the events at the panel sessions were since many Bishop Museum, focused on the indigenous cul- ‘Iolani Palace, tures of Native Hawaiians, and Honolulu Native Americans, Pacific Academy of Arts. Islanders, and First Nations. The next WMA Annual Meeting will take place in Palm Springs, California, from October 21 to 24, 2012. HMA Board Directors would like to thank the many members Bottom, left, l to r: Anthony Ramirez, Guam representative and PIMA executive board member; who worked over the last two Adi Meretui Ratunabuabua, from Fiji, and chair of PIMA’s executive board; Tarisi Vunidilo, years on the HMA Host and PIMA’s secretary general, from Vanuatu; Bulou Unaisi Nawalowalo Manulevu, from Fiji; Program Committees, and to artist Dan Taulapapa McMullin of American Samoa; and Noelani Arista, from Honolulu. member institutions for hosting the many day and evening Themed Pupukahi i Holomua ment workshops, a day tour of fourteen concurrent sessions events. “Working Together to Move Pearl Harbor, and ended with topped with five different HMA was the recipient of Forward," WMA descended on an evening reception at the receptionsto choose from at several grants to help bring Honolulu September 23-26, Honolulu Academy of Arts. Shangri La, The Contemporary WMA to Honolulu, we thank 2011 with unprecedented co- During the first conference Museum, The Liljestrand them: sponsorships with HMA, day at the Hawai‘i Convention House, Queen Emma Summer $5,000- Cooke Foundation, Ltd. Association of Tribal Archives Center, Manulani Aluli Meyer, Palace, ‘Iolani Palace, Mission $5,000- Mayor’s Office of Libraries, and Museums Associate Professor of Houses Museum, and UH’s Ka Culture and the Arts, the City (ATALM), and Pacific Islands Education at University of Waihona o ka Na‘auao and County of Honolulu Museums Association (PIMA). Hawai‘i, Hilo, and currently in Kamakauokalani Center for $4,000- Hawai‘i Council for the Over 600 registered attendees New Zealand working for Te Hawaiian Studies. Humanities came from as far as Louisiana, Wananga o Aotearoa, gave a The following day started $1,000- Shangri La, the Doris and Alaska, Fiji and Australia thoughtful and powerful with Ralph Regenvanu, MP Duke Foundation for Islamic made for incredible learning keynote titled, Our Collective Minister of Justice and Art and networking opportunities. Remembering: Five (K)new Community, Vanuatu, speaking For their in-kind support over Pre-conference day offered an Ideas for World Transforma- about the innovative cultural the past two years, the Hawai‘i array of professional develop- tion. The day continued with and economic initiatives in his Convention Center and staff.

Below, more from the WMA Conference, l to r: conference’s opening reception, speaker Ralph HCH Grant Regenvanu, and conference attendees visiting the printing press at the Mission Houses Museum. Continued from page 1 Preservation and Access Grants $5,000- Bishop Museum. $5,000- Collection, University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa Library Hawai‘i AIC- American Institute for Statewide Collections Planning Grant Wraps Up CERT volun- Conservation of Historic and By Malia Van Heukelem shop “Building a Culture – teers Lynn Artistic Works (FAIC) has been In March 2010, the Hawai‘i Collections Care in Hawai‘i” Davis, UH busy providing training for con- Museums Association was held at Bishop Museum. Four Library Head servators and related collections awarded a Connecting to primary concerns were priori- of Preser- professionals selected for the Collections planning grant from tized by the varied collections vation, and American Institute for the Institute of Museums and staff: assign responsibility for Malia Van Conservation Collections Library Services. The primary collections care; provide safe Heukelem, Emergency Response Team goals were to: convene an conditions for collections, mar- UH Master of Library and (AIC-CERT) with funding from island-wide meeting; develop a shal public and private support; Information Science graduate the Institute of Museum and professional leadership net- and develop a disaster plan. student and former ‘Iolani Library Services (IMLS). This work; and conduct a survey of Over 90 participants met at Palace Collections Manager, training added approximately collections. Lynn Ann Davis of Queen Emma Summer Palace attended training in San Diego, 40 new “collections emergency University of Hawaii’s on April 7, 2011. The group California. response team” members to Hamilton Library Preservation revisited the four points identi- total approximately 100 AIC- Lab served as project manager fied nearly a year earlier, CERT responders. Since 2008, AIC-CERT Creates and has guided the process over reviewed the results of a Participants were selected by Nationwide Network of the past year. She said of the statewide collections survey, expertise in a variety of special- Responders project: “It has been very ful- and participated in break-out ties and will serve as a sort of filling to experience the groups. Each of the groups By Malia Van Heukelem Red Cross for museum emer- statewide commitment to the focused on one of the following Since 2008, AIC-CERT mem- gencies. Add this number to preservation of cultural heritage four topics to illicit the best bers have assisted over 40 cul- your disaster plan for 24-hour collections. There has been ideas for moving forward: tural institutions in the U.S. and assistance the next time you excellent response to create a Advocacy, Networking, Haiti assess damages and sal- have a collections emergency: statewide preservation plan.” Information & Training, or vage their collections via (202) 661-8068. phone, email, and on-site visits. In May 2010, approximately Sustainability. The Foundation of the 80 people attended the work- continued on page 2