Bernice Akamine Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

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Bernice Akamine was born on 1 December, 1949 in Honolulu, is an artist. Discover Bernice Akamine's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

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Bernice Akamine Net Worth

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Akamine creates kapa, cloth created by beating bark. She was featured in a 2015 documentary, Ka Hana Kapa, along with other kapa makers and has served as a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, helping them identify the plants that made the kapa colors on items in their collections. She has also created contemporary baskets inspired by traditional symbols of Hawaiian nobility, using the feathers of small birds. Akamine says her art "is meant to make a statement and preserve cultural knowledge."

Akamine earned two degrees from the University of Hawaii at Manoa: a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in glass in 1994 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture and glass in 1999. She studied multiple traditional Hawaiian art forms at the university, such as lei hulu (feather leis) and lauhala weaving. She has also completed graduate work at Central Washington University in natural resource management.

Bernice A. Akamine (born December 1, 1949) is an American artist and Hawaiian rights activist. Her visual art has taken multiple forms, including glass and feathers, and she teaches traditional Hawaiian art techniques such as the creation of kapa cloth and natural dyeing using Hawaiian plants. Akamine is an advocate for Indigenous land rights, using her artwork to bring attention to the colonial invasion of Hawaii and its continued effects on the native Hawaiian population.

Bernice A. Akamine was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 1, 1949. Her heritage is kānaka maoli (Native Hawaiian) and Japanese American. Akamine's grandmother was a kahuna lāʻau lapaʻau, a traditional Hawaiian healer, and her mother, Audrey Elliott, was a lauhala weaver.

Akamine's artwork focuses on environmental and cultural issues, especially the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the ongoing Hawaiian sovereignty movement. She is a kumu (expert teacher) of the methods of creating and using waiho‘olu‘u (natural plant dyes). During a 2005 internship at the Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, she documented the colors created with these dyes, pairing 20 samples of dye with plant photos.

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