Puʻuhonua Society’s granting program, Hoʻākea Source, in partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Regional Regranting Program announces our upcoming 2026 Grant Cycle offering $122,000 directly to artists, art collectives and cultural practitioners.
In addition to more than doubling our initial regranting since 2023, we now welcome applications from all of Hawaiʻi thanks to the generous support of the Laila Twigg-Smith Art Fund of the Hawaiʻi Community Foundation and the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation. And for the first year ever, cultural practitioners are eligible to receive dedicated unrestricted funding to support the perpetuation and innovation of material practices rooted in Hawaiian culture. This unprecedented multi-year collaboration between local and regional foundations enables much needed financial support to artists and cultural practitioners calling all of Hawaiʻi home.
Hoʻākea Source furthers the mission of Puʻuhonua Society by creating opportunities to support artists living and working in Hawaiʻi and by affirming Native Hawaiian value-systems. Since its inception in 2024, Hoʻākea Source has awarded over $150,000 directly to 22 artists, art collectives and cultural practitioners who have one year to bring to life a range of projects centered around a set of strategic priorities. Awarded projects celebrate the diverse practices of artists of Hawaiʻi and have taken many forms, including experimental publications; archiving projects centered on Hawaiian cultural practices, local culture, and māhū joy; a mobile artist-in-residence program; a contemporary dance film; a service learning trip; community-based efforts; a mapping project charting activism across Hawaiʻi.
For the upcoming 2025-2026 grant cycle, which runs from November 28, 2025 – January 18, 2026, Hoʻākea Source announces a new set of strategic priorities, as a cyclical evolution to the program and as a response to current events affecting Hawaiʻi nei.
Moemoeā (Dreams): Proposals that begin from a place beyond waking life; proposals that highlight the fantastic potential of the unrealized or yet-to-be; proposals that imagine alternative ways of being and knowing…
Puʻuhonua (Refuges): Proposals that revolve around individuals, groups, communities, spaces, times, and/or places of sanctuary; proposals that counteract the violence of daily life under ongoing U.S. occupation…
Ea (Freedoms): Proposals that embody life, breath, sovereignty, self-determination, and/or independence; proposals that address obstacles to and/or clear pathways for Indigenous growth, health, and wellbeing. Proposals that rise…
With an official launch date of November 28, 2025 to coincide with Lā Kūʻokoʻa, Hawaiian Independence Day, full program details can be found at hoakeasource.org.
“The additional support for Hoʻākea Source stands as a testament to the program’s mission and dedication to create new opportunities and direct support for artists and culture bearers throughout Hawai’i,” says Khadija Nia Adell, Regional Regranting Program Officer at the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, “Expanding its reach will ensure that innovation, diverse practices, and methods aligned with Native Hawaiian cultural values will continue to thrive across the archipelago through resourced pathways for exchange and collaboration.”