“With the loss of wiliwili seeds, also came the loss of mo’olelo and story sharing. Phrases like, ‘When the wiliwili blooms, the sharks bite’ loses its meaning…”
Corinne Okada Takara
Meet Corinne Okada Takara
Corinne Okada Takara is a Honolulu based artist/STEAM educator who creates technology integrated art projects. Her public collaborative work explores the use of modern day artifacts to preserve cultural heritage and memory, and honors the colliding and merging stories that arise in rapidly shifting communities. Corinne specializes in visual art, biomaterial design, and art collaborations that invite dreaming of abundant sustainable futures, and empowering more people to see themselves as shapers of that vision. She is co-founder of BioJam and works out of her Nest Makerspace. Instagram: @corinnetakara and https://linktr.ee/corinnetakara