SFCA Board of Commissioners general meeting
- Date: Friday, November 21, 2025.
- Time: 11:00 a.m. until adjourned.
- Location: No. 1 Capitol District Building Multipurpose Room, 250 South Hotel Street, Honolulu 96813.
- Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/83097369783?pwd=1WzqlY3esAWajYVEOMqqO50bwpJNoM.1.
Agenda: 2025_11-21 SFCA General Board Meeting Agenda (PDF)
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.
Media description: text reading “Friday November 21, 2025 SFCA Board of Commissioners General Meeting sfca.hawaii.gov/news” over detail a serigraph print in shades of blue. A dark gradient over the bottom half helps the text stand out. Second slide shows the full artwork without text or gradient. Artwork in image “Royal Blue” serigraph print by Barbara Engle. Art in Public Places Collection of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Currently on display in the Honolulu Community College Library. Barbara Engle served as President of the Hawaii Artist’s League, helped to found the Contemporary Museum, and became a popular art teacher at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. She is primarily known for her non-objective abstract paintings, generally derived from nature and inspired by her surroundings and travels. Learn more and search the collection at SFCA.hawaii.gov/app-art (link redirects to Axiell).