About

Lehuauakea (b. 1996, Portland, OR) is a Native Hawaiian interdisciplinary artist perpetuating the traditional practice of barkcloth-making in contemporary, unconventional, and experimental forms. Combining hand-painted and stitched adornments, natural fibers, and remnant materials, Lehuauakea creates mixed-media textile works that examine Indigenous intersectional identity, land stewardship, and cosmological teachings. Raised on their ancestral homelands in Pāpaʻikou, Hawaiʻi, Lehuauakea is now based between Hawaiʻi and Santa Fe, NM.