Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Individual Artists Fellowship

Visual Arts
2008 Deborah Gottheil Nehmad

2008 Laura Ruby

Performing Arts
2006 Rev. Dennis D.K. Kamakahi (music composition)

2006 Yukie P. Shiroma (dance choreography)

Visual Arts
2006 Wayne Levin (photography)

2006 Yida Wang (painting)

Performing Arts
2002 Rachel Berman (dance)


2002 Kenny Endo (music, ethnic music composer)


2002 Karen Yamamoto Hackler (theatre, playwright)

("Eco Circus" 2002 Play @ Kennedy Center article) http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Apr/26/en/en17a.html

2002 Phyllis S.K. Look (theatre, director)


2002 Lisa Matsumoto (theatre, playwright)


(Remembering Lisa Matsumoto article)

2002 Donald Reid Womack (music, chamber)


2002 Matthew Wright (dance, choreographer)


Visual Arts
2000 Maureen-Michele Kaili Chun (conceptual art)



2000 Charles H. Cohan (printmaker)


2000 Sally French (painting)


2000 Rick Mills (glass)


2000 Charles Souza (sculpture)

2000 Romolo Valencia

2000 Fae Yamaguchi


Performing Arts
1999 Celia Chun
(Thesis Work 2007 "Spring Footholds" @ Kennedy Theatre)

1999 Elmer Kudo

1999 Herbert Mahelona

1999 Lynne Nakasone

1999 John Signor

John Signor (Musical Director) has worked on Waikiki Nei and ‘Ulalena and created sound design for Hanau Ka Moku and Kahekili. He holds graduate degrees from Juilliard,

California Institute of the Arts, and the University of Miami. He uses his talents as a multi-instrumentalist to compose for dance, theater, and film and as a teacher at LCC.




1999 David Ward
Seabury Hall faculty member. Dance degree from Portland State

1999 Harry Wong III
("What I'm Reading" article on Harry Wong - Kumu Kahua Theatre Director)

Visual Arts and Crafts
1998 Maile Andrade (mixed media)


1998 Gaye Chan (conceptual art)

1998 Donald Dugal (drawing)
(Don Dugal works from "Faculty Exhibtion" 2005)

1998 Patricia Hickman (fiber)

1998 Hanae Uechi Mills (painting)
"Hanae Uechi Mills figurative and still life monoprints, and vitreographs combine her mixed- media painting and pastel techniques with printmaking. She has an MFA from the University of Hawaiʻi and is currently a private art tutor for children. Mills received the SFCA Individual Artist Fellowship which gave her and fellow art recipient in Sculpture, the late Michael Tom, the opportunity to offer a children's art workshop at Linekona. Her work is included in collections such as the SFCA, Neiman Marcus, Pilchuck Glass School Print Archives in Washington, and Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. In 2003, Mills' figurative monoprint "Sensei" of Koganji Temple, was awarded Juror's Choice in the inagural Shaefer Portrait Competition at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center ." - from the 32nd Annual "Commitment to Excellence" Art Exhibition brochure August 17-26, 2010

1998 Frank Sheriff (sculpture)



1998 Michael Tom (sculpture)

Music Composition
1997 Jay Kauka (music, Hawaiian)
(lyrics for Ka Wailele ʻO Nuʻuanu)


1997 Neil McKay (orchestra)

1997 J. Mark Scearce (orchestra)


1997 Jerre Tanner (orchestra)

1997 Alan Trubitt (chamber)
(Memorial blog + obituary)


1997 Donald Reid Womack (orchestra)
see 2002 info.

1997 Dr. Byron Yasui (band)
Byron has been on the music theory/composition faculty at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa since 1972, where he presently chairs the graduate studies in music. Dr. Yasui has performed as an ukulele soloist with the Honolulu Symphony and is recognized as a master of both jazz and traditional ukulele styles.



Dance, Theater and Photography
1996 Cheryl Flaharty (dance, choreographer)
(Artistic Director for IONA - click "Inside IONA")
http://www.iona360.com/home.htm



1996 Eva Lee (dance, choreographer)
(Art Lunch lecturer Sept. 2007)

1996 Peter Rockford Espiritu (dance, choreographer)

(Audio MP3 interview "Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox" Aug. 2008)

1996 Renee Iijima (photography)

(Honolulu Academy of Arts: Artists of Hawaii 2000 article)


1996 Victoria Kneubuhl (theatre, playwright)


1996 Anne K. Landgraf (photography)
KCC Faculty Member

1996 Franco Salmoiraghi (photography)


Visual Arts and Crafts
1995 Sean K.L. Browne (sculpture)


1995 Dorothy Faison (painting)



1995 John Koga (sculpture)


1995 Hans Ladislaus (sculpture)

1995 John Takami Morita (printmaking)


1995 Esther Shimazu (ceramics)


1995 Glen Yamanoha (painting)

1995 Doug Young (painting)