We asked Native Hawaiian artists and luminaries about the artworks shifting Kānaka Maoli art in the 21st century. These are their answers.
For the past three years, filmmakers Joan Lander and Sancia Miala Shiba Nash have been digitizing and cataloging half a century’s worth of invaluable Native Hawaiian footage.
For two Hawai‘i Island ceremonialists, re-indigenizing a people to their homeland begins with marking the seasonal transitions that Kānaka Maoli have formalized for centuries.
A surfboard carver with a haunted past readies his teenage granddaughter to carry on the surfing traditions of their ancestors.
Drawing from Native Hawaiians’ climbing heritage, Kānaka Climbers is reenvisioning what ethical outdoor recreation looks like in Hawaiʻi.
At a monthly mahjong gathering, a new generation of players finds community through the centuries-old game.
Through his mastery of the laborious wet-plate collodion process, Hawaiian photographer Kenyatta Kelechi memorializes modern-day Hawai‘i.