The following links are just a few examples of grants through the Tateuchi Foundation:

 

Tateuchi Center

Scheduled to open in 2013, the Tateuchi Center will be a multiple venue, multi-disciplinary performing arts center located in downtown Bellevue. Intended to host local-based and touring regional, national, and international performers, the Tateuchi Center intends to cull the highest caliber performances to enrich, educate, and entertain audiences in the greater Seattle area and beyond.

With a significant multi-year groundbreaking grant, the Atsuhiko & Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation has earned the honor of being the center’s namesake. A portion of this grant will go towards Japan and Asia-focused programming, continuing the Tateuchi legacy of promoting international understanding through organizations committed to cultural diversity.

Tateuchi Center


Tateuchi Thematic Gallery

Photographic Memories: a display of historical photographs of Asia
The images on view reflect the lives and land of Asia. The photographs date mostly from 1850–1910 including works by well-known photographers Charles Shepherd, Lala Deen Dayal, and Tamamura Kozaburo.

The Tateuchi Foundation also supports the educational programming of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum to reach K-12 youth by enhancing history, social sciences, and visual arts curriculums with Asian art.

San Francisco Asian Art Museum


Tateuchi Plaza

The Tateuchi Foundation has made a multi-year grant to the capital campaign for Seattle Libraries, which opened an innovative new central library in May of 2004. Its main entrance on Fourth Avenue is known as Tateuchi Plaza and features the exquisite sculpture fountain of the late George Tsudakawa.

Seattle Public Library


Volunteer Park Lily Ponds

A grant from the Tateuchi Foundation has made possible the refurbishing and renovation of the famous Lily Ponds in Volunteer Park. These Ponds, once a key feature of the Olmstead Park system, have been returned to their original glory. Located just across from the Seattle Asian Art Museum, the ponds were rededicated in the fall of 2003.

Seattle Parks Foundation


Tateuchi Lecture

On April 23, 2010 accomplished classical violinist Midori will be delivering the Sixth Annual Tateuchi Lecture at the University of Washington - Kane Hall.

Midori will be speaking on “The Presence of Western Music in Japan: Then & Now.”

2010 Tateuchi Lecture Announcement

Past Lectures have been:
Tateuchi Viewing Pavilion

A capital grant from the Tateuchi Foundation was used by the City of Bellevue to build a Viewing Pavilion, a Bridge and a Viewing Deck to enhance this already spectacular Northwest Garden. These structures were dedicated in May 2004.

Bellevue Botanical Gardens


Tateuchi Hall

The Community School for Music and Art is a nonprofit center for arts education bringing the visual and performing arts experience to more than a quarter million people in Silicon Valley. In 2004 this organization completed a new campus in Mountain View, California. The "Jewel in the Crown" of this new facility is Tateuchi Hall, a 200+ seat concert and performance space.

Community Schools for Music and Art


Tateuchi Galleries, Art Tour, and Revitalization

With three sites open year round including an expanded downtown museum, Olympic sculpture park and Asian art museum, the Seattle Art Museum continues to broaden its reach with grants from the Tateuchi Foundation. The Tateuchi galleries at the Seattle Asian Art Museum campus is currently showing the Ukiyo-e artists of the 18th and 19th centuries in an exhibition titled Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints. This exhibition features a variety of works from this genre, including the famed Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai. Two separate Tateuchi funded projects include Luminous Jewels: a tour of SAM’s Asian art to five major international venues, and SAM’s building revitalization, a project to prepare its buildings for fire and seismic disasters.

Seattle Art Museum


Tateuchi Story Theatre

A grant to build the Tateuchi Story Theatre within the new location of Seattle’s Wing Luke Asian Museum provides a venue for cultural and historical events relating to Pacific Asian Americans with a 59 seat multimedia stage open year round to the public. It opened May 31, 2008 and continues to expand its programming with an additional grant from the Tateuchi Foundation.

Wing Luke Asian Museum



Tateuchi Democracy Forum

The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles unveiled its new theatre bearing the Tateuchi name in October 2009. The opening ceremonies included attendance by the museum’s CEO and President Akemi Kikumura Yano, U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye, former U.S. Secretary Norman Mineta, and Actor George Takei, with honorable mentions for Ina Goodwin Tateuchi and her late husband Atsuhiko Tateuchi of the Tateuchi Foundation. The inaugural program Conversations with Norman Mineta and George Takei focused on their experiences growing up as Japanese Americans, during World War II, and pivotal moments in their lives. This and other programming sponsored by the Tateuchi Foundation will serve to better promote the relations between the United States and Japan at the Tateuchi Democracy Forum.

Japanese American National Museum