SFCA Board of Commissioners general meeting
Friday, August 22, 2025
2:30 p.m. until adjourned.
Kauaʻi: Office of Economic Development, 4444 Rice Street, Suite 200, Lihue.
or on Zoom.
Agenda: 2025_08-22_SFCA General Board Meeting Agenda and Documents (PDF)
Zoom: 2025_08-22 SFCA General Board Meeting (link)
To Provide Written Testimony
We encourage interested persons to submit written testimony in advance of the meeting, which will be distributed to Commissioners prior to the meeting and allow a timely review. Please submit written testimony via email to [email protected].
Written testimonies can also be mailed to:
Rhiannon M.K. Keene, Secretary
State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
250 South Hotel Street, 2nd Floor
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi 96813
Written testimonies may be posted upon the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts meeting website. Please be mindful of any personal information that may be in your testimony before submitting it, unless you intend it to be shared. Late written testimony will be retained as part of the record and distributed to Commissioners as soon as practicable, but we cannot guarantee that the Commissioners will receive it in sufficient time to review prior to decision-making.
About the SFCA Board of Commissioners
Unless otherwise specified, the public is invited to attend SFCA Standing Committee and Commission Meetings. All meetings take place in the multipurpose room of the No. 1 Capitol District building, 250 South Hotel Street, Honolulu, 96813 unless otherwise noted.
Meetings and agendas are posted just prior to the meetings on the State of Hawai‘i Calendar of Events. Enter “State Foundation on Culture and the Arts” in the search bar. Meeting dates are also published in the SFCA’s email newsletter (subscribe here).
Decisions about grants, artwork purchases, and more are made by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA) Board of Commissioners. Meetings are currently being held in-person and virtually on Zoom, and the public is invited to attend.
Appointed by the state governor, the Board of Commissioners oversees the Executive Director, provides input, and approves spending. Commissioners are volunteers and do not receive compensation for their duties.
Updates
The meeting time has been changed to 2:30 p.m. It was previously scheduled for 12:00 p.m.
Graphic: detail from “Waimea Canyon”, oil painting by John Young, 1991. SFCA Art in Public Places Collection. Currently on display in the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Education, Kauaʻi District Office. John Young (1909-1997) was born in Honolulu. Largely self-taught, he learned calligraphy and brush painting at Chinese language school and produced his first oils at 18. Young used a brush and palette knife to create the lava formations and foliage of Waimea Canyon. “I want to give the entire canyon a feeling of great depth–create a sense of tranquility and a misty luminous light on the canvas.”