Situating Pacific Barkcloth in Time and Place
We are delighted to announce our forthcoming book on ‘Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth’. Edited by Frances Lennard and Andy Mills, this book builds on our object-based approach to …
Continue reading “Our Forthcoming Book on Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth”
Join us in early September at our live sessions discussing Pacific tapa in museum collections as well as people’s own experience and engagement with it. Sharing Experiences and Photos: …
Continue reading “Registration Open for Barkcloth Live Sessions”
The Barkcloth Basics: Interpreting and Understanding Pacific Barkcloth workshops that we had hoped to take place in our partner museums in August 2020, unfortunately will not be able to …
Last week would have marked our final set of the Barkcloth Basics: Interpreting and Understanding Pacific Barkcloth workshops. While we are sad that we could not share these workshops …
Reggie Meredith, our wonderful tapa maker and practitioner in American Samoa, sent us this photo of her weeding and maintaining her u’a (paper mulberry) patch a couple of weeks …
Continue reading “American Samoan U‘a Patch & New Workshop Dates”