The Contemporary Museum – Makiki Heights
2411 Makiki Heights Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822
Main: (808) 526-1322; Exhibition Info: 526-0232; Café Reservations: 523-3362
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release May 7, 2009
Contact: Charlie Aldinger, Director of Museum Advancement;
Ph: (808) 237-5231; Fax: (808) 536-5970; E-mail:
caldinger@tcmhi.org
Web Site: http://www.tcmhi.org
TCM Awarded NEA Grant for
New Collection Handbook
The Contemporary Museum (TCM) has been
awarded a $30,000 Access to Artistic
Excellence matching grant by the
National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal
agency. The announcement was made online at
the following web link:
http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/09grants/09AAE2.php?CAT=Access&DIS=Museum.
The NEA grant was awarded to support the
publication of a handbook of selected works
in the museum's permanent collection. This
will be TCM's first major initiative to
document and interpret its collection in a
way that will have wide distribution and
use. TCM was the only Hawaii museum to
receive funding in this round of NEA grants.
“ This is the first NEA grant The
Contemporary Museum has received.” Executive
Director Georgianna Lagoria noted. “It is a
wonderful recognition of the quality of the
museum’s collections to receive this
support, which will make the work more
available and better known to audiences in
Hawaii, nationally, and internationally.”
TCM is Hawaii’s only museum devoted
exclusively to contemporary art. Since the
museum opened in 1988, the collection has
grown substantially and now comprises nearly
3,000 works including paintings, sculpture,
photographs, works on paper, and crafts
(ceramics, wood, glass, metal and fiber).
Spanning the period from 1945 to the
present, the collection contains major works
by some of the most important artists of the
period, including Josef Albers, Andy Warhol,
Mark Tobey, Louise Nevelson, Jim Dine,
Robert Motherwell, Sam Francis, Jasper
Johns, Frank Stella, Mark DiSuvero, George
Rickey, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, David Nash,
Vito Acconci, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Graham,
David Hockney, Pat Steir, Jennifer Bartlett,
Frank Lobdell, Deborah Butterfield, Ed and
Nancy Reddin Kienholz, William T. Wiley, and
Robert Hudson. The museum also has a
collection of 26 boxes and collages by
Joseph Cornell.
Particular strengths in TCM’s collection
include photography, especially conceptual
and non-traditional work. Among the artists
represented are William Wegman, Robert
Cumming, Dennis Oppenheim, Bruce Conner, Jay
DeFeo, Vito Acconci, John Coplans, Lucas
Samaras, Nic Nicosia, Nancy Burson, Gregory
Crewdson, Richard Prince, Lesley Dill,
Andres Serrano, Vik Muniz, David Hockney,
Gary Schneider, Bill Jacobson, John
O’Reilly, Thomas Ruff, and Yasumasa Morimura.
Other areas of strength include
contemporary ceramics and ceramic sculpture,
with works by Robert Arneson, Peter Voulkos,
Otto and Gertrud Natzler, Beatrice Wood,
Lucie Rie, Ruth Duckworth, Betty Woodman,
Stephen DeStaebler, Robert Turner, Richard
DeVore, Rudolf Staffel, Robert Sperry,
Kenneth Price, Ron Nagle, Daisy Youngblood,
David Gilhooly, Viola Frey, and many others.
TCM also has one of the largest public
collections of turned wood in the United
States, including works by Ron Fleming,
Edward Moulthrop, Phillip Moulthrop, Bob
Stocksdale, William Hunter, Michelle
Holzapfel, and Hawaii’s Ron Kent, among many
others.
The Museum has built a strong
representation of contemporary masters and
emerging artists, particularly in works on
paper. Kara Walker, Kiki Smith, Allison Saar,
William Kentridge, Los Carpinteros, Jose
Bedia, Alexis Smith, Terry Allen, Enrique
Chagoya, Jane Hammond, Trenton Doyle
Hancock, Erick Swenson, Catherine Opie, Paul
Pfeiffer, Kathy Prendergast, Stephen Prina,
Lari Pittman, Robert Therrien, Joseph Biel,
Enrique Martinez Celaya, Gary Simmons, Tam
Van Tran, Donald Lipski, and Richard Tuttle
are among the artists represented.
In TCM’s Print collection, highlights
include a series of ten screen prints by
Andy Warhol, Electric Chair; a Jasper
Johns’ monotype, Savarin; Had
Gadya, a series of twelve mixed-media
prints by Frank Stella,; and a color etching
and aquatint by Richard Diebenkorn, High
Green I.
The handbook project will be under the
project direction of James Jensen, Deputy
Director for Exhibitions and Collections.
This NEA grant will support the first phase
of the project, including photography of
works, securing rights for reproductions,
research and some writing. The NEA grant
must be matched by TCM 1 to 1, meaning the
museum must raise an additional $30,000 from
other donors to be able to obtain the NEA
funds. Individual contributions to the
handbook project may be made online at
www.tcmhi.org
or by calling the Director’s
Office/Development Department at (808)
237-5214.
For more information about The
Contemporary Museum, visit our website at
www.tcmhi.org;
Exhibition Info: (808) 526-0232; Reception
Desk: (808) 526-1322. Third Thursdays are
free entry days!
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General Information:
The Contemporary Museum - Makiki Heights
Entry: One-Day Membership Pass - $8 Adults; $6 Students & Seniors; Members & Children 12 and
under are free. (Cost of a one-day pass may be applied to the cost of an annual membership on
the day of issue.) It is always free to visit the Museum Shop or The Contemporary Café. Third
Thursdays are free entry days! Museum and Shop Hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.;
Sunday from Noon to 4 p.m.; Closed Mondays and major holidays. The Contemporary Café Hours:
Tuesday-Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Sunday from Noon to 2:30 p.m. Café
Reservations: (808) 523-3362. Docent Tours: Tuesday-Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Cades Library Hours:
Tuesday & Thursday from 3 to 5 p.m.; or by special appointment. Parking: Free. On The Bus: #15
to Makiki Heights Drive-stops in front of the Museum. Address: 2411 Maikiki Heights Drive,
Honolulu, HI 96822. Exhibitions/Events Line: (808) 526-0232. Tours/Administration: (808)
526-1322; Web Site: www.tcmhi.org. Membership: (808) 237-5219.
The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center: Entry: Free. Hours: Monday-Thursday from
8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Closed on weekends and banking holidays;
First Fridays: 7-9 p.m. Docent Tours: Third Thursdays at Noon. Parking: TCM Members enjoy
validated parking at FHC. Address: 999 Bishop Street, Honolulu, HI 96813.
For all press inquiries, please contact Charlie Aldinger, Director of Museum Advancement, at (808)237-5231
or via e-mail at caldinger@tcmhi.org.
