LOCATION
Honolulu, Hawaii

ORGANIZATION
Friends of Iolani Palace

GIVEBACK TYPE
Cultural Program

DETAILS
Inspired to perpetuate Iolani Palace’s storied cultural and historical legacy for a new generation, DAWSON launched Power The Palace, a matching donation campaign that matched contributions to the Palace dollar for dollar to help fund operations and educational programming. In 2022, DAWSON sponsored a digital art installation at the Palace honoring Uluhaimalama, Queen Liliʻuokalani’s royal garden, created by artist Jennifer Steinkamp for Hawaiʻi Contemporary’s Hawaiʻi Triennial 2022 (HT22): PACIFIC CENTURY – E HOʻOMAU NO MOANANUIĀKEA. Native Hawaiian Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick served as an HT22 associate curator.
Iolani Palace is a living restoration of a proud Hawaiian national identity and is recognized as the spiritual and physical multicultural epicenter of Hawaiʻi. Commissioned in 1882 by King Kalakaua, Iolani Palace was the home of Hawaiʻi’s last reigning monarchs until the overthrow of the monarchy in 1893.