Professor of Dance Ray Tadio and alumnus Patrick Makuakāne are both winning praise for the unique ways they use traditional dance to express their cultural identities By Jamie Oppenheim and Matt Itelson | SFSU Magazine Spring/Summer 2024 The movements of dance are found anywhere humans are on...
Victoria Namkung | The Guardian | Dec 31, 2023 Winner of the MacArthur ‘genius’ grant in 2023 has forged his own style in San Francisco while often subverting stereotypes of hula itself For Patrick Makuakāne, hula isn’t just a way to preserve his Native Hawaiian heritage. It’s...
Jamie Oppenheim | SFSU.EDU | Dec 11, 2023 Patrick Makuakāne is the first native Hawaiian to receive the prestigious “genius grant” Most cultural preservationists look to traditions, artifacts, history and language to keep a culture alive and intact. But that’s where alumnus Patrick Makuakāne (B.S., ’89), a...
MidWeek | Bill Mossman | November 29, 2023 Kumu hula Patrick Makuakāne has been transforming lives for decades. Now, the MacArthur Foundation is changing his with its fellowship award. Many may remember Burning Man 2023 for the relentless showers that turned Nevada’s Black Rock Desert into a...
KQED Forum | Nov. 2, 2023 Manuel Muñoz is the son of immigrant farm laborers from California’s Central Valley whose four works of fiction center the lives of Mexican-American communities in the region. Patrick Makuakane is a native Hawaiian and San Francisco-based kumu hula, or master...
civilbeat.org | Neil Miner | Oct. 26, 2023 Patrick Makuakane, the San Francisco kumu hula who was recently awarded a MacArthur Genius grant, describes himself as a “cultural preservationist.“ What he means by preservationist is very different from what people in Hawaii usually mean by that. They talk about...
KCBS Radio | By Pat Thurston | Oct 9, 2023 Twenty winners were announced to receive the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship last week, including scientists, legal scholars, engineers, and a hula dancer. Aiming to blend classical Hula dance with modern and contemporary elements, the artist says he...
DiverseEducation.com | Arrman Kyaw | Oct 9, 2023 Surprise, shock, honor. Such were the emotions of many of the MacArthur Fellows selected this year by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. "I was in total shock when I first learned about it,” said Dr. Linsey C....
Classical Voice | Janos Gereben | Oct 9, 2023 San Francisco’s Patrick Makuakāne is among the 2023 class of MacArthur Foundation awardees, announced last week. Makuakāne, 62, is a famous master teacher of hula. In 1985, he founded a hula school and company called Nā Lei Hulu I Ka...
KITV Hawaii News | Oct 8, 2023 Patrick Makuakane, a Kumu Hula and advocate for cultural preservation, has been honored as one of the twenty recipients of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship this year. Watch the full interview at https://www.kitv.com. ...
NPR.org | Oct 6, 2023 A MacArthur fellowship is commonly referred to as a genius grant. The 20 recipients this year include Kumu Patrick Makuakane, a master hula teacher based in San Francisco. LISTEN: Read more at https://www.npr.org....
Hawaii Public Radio | By Catherine Cruz | Oct 6, 2023 Each year, the MacArthur Foundation awards fellowships to a handful of people at the top of their fields from science to the arts. It's an honor that falls like pennies from heaven. This year's recipients include Patrick Makuakāne, a...
NYTimes.com | By Christopher Kuo | Oct 4, 2023 On Wednesday, 20 Americans, all anonymously nominated, were recognized by the MacArthur Foundation with $800,000 fellowships often referred to as the “genius” award. Patrick Makuakane, a hula choreographer in San Francisco, was at the Burning Man festival when he...
NBCBayArea.com | Oct 5, 2023 The MacArthur Fellowship or the “genius grant” is one of the most prestigious prizes in the country. Two Bay Area residents were picked this year and are given $800k to spend however they want. Raj Mathai speaks with San Francisco resident...
Slate.com | Dan Kois | Oct 5, 2023 Among the 20 winners of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship announced Wednesday were scientists, engineers, composers, legal scholars—and one hula dancer. Patrick Makuakāne, a 62-year-old kumu hula, or master teacher, lives in San Francisco and runs the hula school and company Nā...