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The architecture of Samoa is characterised by openness, with the design mirroring the culture and life of the Samoan people who inhabit the Samoa Islands. [1] Architectural concepts are incorporated into Samoan proverbs, oratory and metaphors, as well as linking to other art forms in Samoa, such as boat building and tattooing. The spaces ...
Mary Jewett Pritchard, 1944. Mary Jewett Pritchard (September 17, 1905 – June 6, 1992) was an American Samoan textile artist. Pritchard is widely credited with reviving the art of siapo, the Samoan version of tapa, handmade cloth created by pounding the bark of plants.
Feu'u emigrated to New Zealand in 1966 after growing up in the village of Poutasi, Western Samoa. [2] He always wanted to be an artist and noted the difference of how art was viewed between Samoa and New Zealand, with 'beautifully made, functional canoes and houses' being art in Samoa and in New Zealand art was 'something extra special not to be touched'.
Meredith-Fitiao is considered an expert in barkcloth textile art, also known as siapo or tapa cloth.She is a professor of art at the American Samoa Community College. She has worked with international museum conservation staff to lead barkcloth workshops, including at the University of Glasgow and Oakland Museum of California.
McMullin was born in Japan into a military family, and spent their toddler years in Germany, before moving to American Samoa as a young child where they were raised on Tutuila Island in the villages of Malaeloa and Leone [2] [3] They are of Samoan, Hawaiian, English and Jewish-Irish descent, their father was Samuelu Sailele McMullin of Leone Tutuila and their mother was Lupelele Iosefa ...
His first design was the reverse of the Nebraska quarter for the State Quarters Program in 2006. His designs went on to garner awards such as the Coin of the Year award for best contemporary event in 2009 for his Little Rock Central High School Desegregation silver dollar design, [ 12 ] [ 13 ] an accomplishment repeated with the 2021 American ...
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Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000) is a pop art sculpture created by the New Zealand artist Michel Tuffery in 1994. It is the first in a series of tin animals, made from the packaging of foods common in Samoa. Addressing his Samoan heritage, neocolonialism and the distress of indigenous peoples in the Pacific, it is one of his most celebrated works.