Lehuauakea is a māhū mixed-Native Hawaiian interdisciplinary artist and kapa maker from Pāpaʻikou on Moku O Keawe, the Big Island of Hawaiʻi. Through a range of traditional Kanaka Maoli craft-based media, their art serves as a means of exploring cultural and biological ecologies, Indigenous identity and contemporary environmental degradation. 

Lehua will show us how they breathe new life into patterns and traditions practiced for generations and how their focus on the labor-intensive making of ʻohe kāpala (carved bamboo printing tools), kapa (bark cloth) and natural pigments is an act of resilience that helps forge deeper relationships with ʻāina and ensures this mode of Indigenous storytelling is carried well into the future.