Honoring Tradition, Expanding Possibilities--Hawaiian Artist Receives Emerging Native Arts ...
The Walker Youngbird Foundation is pleased to announce that Lehuauakea, a Native Hawaiian artist and kapa practitioner, has ...
Amazon S3 on MSN21 天
Anessi's Barkcloth Art (1982)
The film follows a 12-year-old girl named Agnesi Aafi from the Kingdom of Tonga, as she prepares for her cousin Fanny's wedding. Set against the backdrop of Tonga's rich culture, Agnesi shares her ...
Loughborough University9 天
Inside the Sustainable Textile Futures exhibition at London’s Embassy of Japan
In the heart of London’s Piccadilly, the Embassy of Japan is hosting Sustainable Textile Futures: Contemporary Design ...
Hawaii Public Radio21 天
This kapa maker wants to further the tradition of the Pacific art form
Lehuauakea was born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Pāpaʻikou on Hawaiʻi Island. They learned the labor-intensive work of kapa making from barkcloth maker Wesley Sen, who trained in Pacific ...
The East African on MSN11 天
Fusion and fission through art
The exhibition that opened on December 13, 2024, features four artists whose diverse practices converge to create a rich ...
Nature8 天
Social anthropology articles from across Nature Portfolio
Social anthropology is the subdiscipline of anthropology that investigates the cultural properties of human societies. Topics include cultural norms, morals, laws and customs, and there is a ...